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ROMEO AND JULIET

FRANK DICKSEE

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ULIET.

J Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day :

It

was the nightingale, and not the lark,

That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;
Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate-tree:

Believe me, love, it was the nightingale."

ROMEO. "It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks

Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east :
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops:.....
I must be gone and live, or stay and die
Farewell, farewell! one kiss and I'll descend.""

-ACT-HI; SCENE Y, time 1