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Romeo and Juliet, I. ii

here writ. I must to the learned. In good

time.

Ben. Tut! man, one fire burns out another's burning,

One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;

Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;

One desperate grief cures with another's languish:

Take thou some new infection to thy eye,

And the rank poison of the old will die.

Rom. Your plantain leaf is excellent for that.

Ben. For what, I pray thee?

Rom. For your broken shin.

Ben. Why, Romeo, art thou mad?

Rom. Not mad, but bound more than a madman is;

Shut up in prison, kept without my food,

Whipp'd and tormented, and—Good den, good fellow. Serv. God gi' good den. I pray, sir, can you read?

Rom. Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.

Serv. Perhaps you have learn'd it without book:

but, I pray, can you read any thing you see?

Rom. Ay, if I know the letters and the language.

Serv. Ye say honestly; rest you merry!

[Offering to go.]

Rom. Stay, fellow; I can read.

'Signior Martino and his wife and daugh-

ters; County Anselme and his beauteous sis-

ters; the lady widow of Vitruvio; Signior

Placentio, and his lovely nieces; Mercutio and

 45 In good time; cf. n.

58 Good den: good evening 