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Act II, Scene 1
1A lane by the wall of Capulet’s orchard.
2Enter Romeo.
3RomeoCan I go forward when my heart is here?
Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out. He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it.
4Enter Benvolio and Mercutio.
5BenvolioRomeo! my cousin Romeo!
6MercutioHe is wise;
And, on my lie, hath stol’n him home to bed.
7BenvolioHe ran this way, and leap’d this orchard wall:
Call, good Mercutio.
8MercutioNay, I’ll conjure too.
Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover!
Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh:
Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied;
Cry but “Ay me!” pronounce but “love” and “dove;”
Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,
One nick-name for her purblind son and heir,
Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim,
When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!
He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not;
The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.
I conjure thee by Rosaline’s bright eyes,
By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,
By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh
And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
That in thy likeness thou appear to us!
9BenvolioAnd if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.
10MercutioThis cannot anger him: ’twould anger him
To raise a spirit in his mistress’ circle
Of some strange nature, letting it there stand
Till she had laid it and conjured it down;
That were some spite: my invocation
Is fair and honest, and in his mistress’ name
I conjure only but to raise up him.
11BenvolioCome, he hath hid himself among these trees,
To be consorted with the humorous night:
Blind is his love and best befits the dark.
12MercutioIf love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
Now will he sit under a medlar tree,
And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.
O, Romeo, that she were, O, that she were
An open-arse, thou a pop’rin pear!
Romeo, good night: I’ll to my truckle-bed;
This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:
Come, shall we go?
13BenvolioGo, then; for ’tis in vain
To seek him here that means not to be found. Exeunt.