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ROMEO AXD JULIET
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let counseled caution : the bleeding corpse of a Montague dragged thru the torch-lit palace would ill consort with the beginning of a marriage.
Romeo, unharmed, but in the first throes of a pure and overmastering love, left as he had come. But the spell had fallen on Juliet, too. and it was not until she had poured out the warmth of her blossomy heart to him, that she was warned that he was a loathed enemy.
It was in that still hour which proclaims the shading of night into morning, when Romeo, having again thrown caution to the winds, mounted the orchard Avails of the Capulet garden, and appeared under a balcony leading to Juliet's chamber.
Here, above him, but blending in spirit, she appeared to his call, and the sweetest, most exalted love that pen has imprisoned was allowed to voice itself.
It was then. too. in that trembling hour, that they decided to risk all on another meeting.
"While the day was still young, Romeo, sick with his love as with a fever, sought the good counsel of his friend and ally, Mereutio. They met upon a street, and, as fate would have it. Tybalt and other Capulets there found them. There were a few words of banter from the gay Mereutio, a few sour sneers from Tybalt, and rapiers were out and searching for a bosom. Mereutio fell, thrust thru by Tybalt, and Romeo, his composure gone at the sight of his dying friend, slew the sneerer, in the face of a gathering crowd.
The news spread quickly thru Verona, so quickly that before nightfall the Prince had issued a decree banishing Romeo forevermore without, the principality.
It was a sudden and crushing blow to his own high hopes and the cause of the Montagues, and Romeo, the outlaw, hastened to the cell of Friar Laurence, a Franciscan skilled in intrigue, potions, and, at odd times, dealing with souls.
At his wits' end, the wily friar could counsel nothing better than an immediate marriage of the unfortunate lovers; their later destiny to be left in his hands.
And so 'twas brought about. In the privacy of his cell, the twain were wedded, and a potion secretly given to Juliet to swallow when the occasion pressed.
As the lark sang a warning of the break of day from her garden, Romeo bade farewell to his bride of a day, and set forth to Mantua, his abode of exile.
And now, all impatient, and the city become quiet again, my Lord Capulet would hasten on the alliance of Paris and his daughter by immediate wedlock. The distraught girl, guarded while she feigned sleep or walked, unable to disclose her secret, got word to Friar Laurence of her difficulties. It was then he advised her to take his potion, a powerful drug, which would east her into a