Like softest music to attending ears!  
_Juliet._ Romeo!  
_Romeo._                         My dear?  
_Juliet._                        At what o'clock to-morrow  
Shall I send to thee?  
_Romeo._                         At the hour of nine.  
_Juliet._ I will not fail; 't is twenty years till then.  
I have forgot why I did call thee back.  
_Romeo._ Let me stand here till thou remember it.  
_Juliet._ I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,  
Remembering how I love thy company.  
_Romeo._ And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget,  
Forgetting any other home but this._Juliet._ 'T is almost morning; I would have thee gone,
And yet no farther than a wanton's bird,
Who lets it hop a little from her hand,
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, 180
And with a silk thread plucks it back again,
So loving-jealous of his liberty. _Romeo._ I would I were thy bird. _Juliet._ Sweet, so would I;
Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow. [_Exit above._ _Romeo._ Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!
Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!
Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell, 189
His help to crave and my dear hap to tell. [_Exit._SCENE III. _Friar Laurence's Cell__Enter_ FRIAR LAURENCE, _with a basket_ _Friar Laurence._ The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels.
Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,
I must up-fill this osier cage of ours
With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;
What is her burying grave that is her womb, 10
And from her womb children of divers kind
We sucking on her natural bosom find,
Many for many virtues excellent,
None but for some, and yet all different.
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities!
For nought so vile that on the earth doth live

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