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 out any note of Infamy. Notwithtanding by reaon of his age, he voluntarily gaue ouer the World, and cloed himelfe in an Hermitage, two miles from Verona, where he liued 5 or 6 yeares, and pent hys tyme in continuall prayer, vntil he was called out of this tranitory worlde, into the bliful tate of euerlating ioy. And for the compaion of o traunge an infortune, the Montesches, and Capellets poured forth utch abundaunce of teares, as with the ame they did euacuate their auncient grudge and choler, whereby they were then reconciled: and they which coulde not bee brought to attonement by any wiedome or humayne councell, were in the ende vanquihed and made frends by pity: and to immortalizate the memory of o intier and perfect amity, the Lord of Verona ordayned, that the two bodies of thoe miraculous Louers hould be fat intoumbed in the graue where they ended their lyues, in which place was erected a high marble Piller, honoured with an infinite number of excellent Epytaphes, which to this day be apparaunt, with utch noble memory, as amongs all the rare excellencies, wherewith that City is furnihed, there is none more Famous than the Monument of Rhomeo and Iulietta.