A street near the Capulet house
This scene opens with Count Paris, a young nobleman, asking Capulet for permission to marry his daughter, Juliet. Capulet says that Juliet is too young but gives Paris permission to court her and try to win her favor. He also invites Paris to a party he is giving that night. Romeo finds out about the party and discovers that Rosaline, the girl who rejected him, will be present. Benvolio urges Romeo to go to the party to see how Rosaline compares with other women.
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Capulet: But Montague is bound as well as I
In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think,
For men so old as we to keep the peace.
Minhee (Paris): Of honorable reckoning are you both
And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long
But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?
Capulet: But saying o'er what I have said before:
My child is yet a stranger in the world,
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years;
Let two more summers wither in their pride
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
Minhee(Paris): Younger than she are happy mothers made.
Capulet: And too soon marred are those so early made.
The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she;
She is the hopeful lady of my earth.
But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart;
My will to her consent is but a part.
An she agree, within her scope of choice
Lies my consent and fair according voice.
This might I hold an old accustomed feast,
Where to I have invited many a guest,
Such as I love, and you among the store,
One more, most welcome, makes my number more
At my poor house look to behold this night
Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light.
Such comfort as do lusty young men feel
When well-appareled April on the heel
Of limping Winter treads, even such delight
Among fresh female buds shall you this night
Inherit at my house. Hear all, all see,
And like her most whose merit most shall be;
Which, on more view of many, mine being one,
May stand in number, though in reck'ning none.
Come, go with me. [To Servant, giving him a paper]
Go, sirrah, trudge about
Through fair Verona; find those persons out
Whose names are written there, and to them say,
My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.
[Exeunt Capulet and Paris]
Servant: Find them out whose names are written here!
It is written that the shoemaker should meddle with
his yard and the tailor with his last, the fisher with
his pencil and the painter with his nets; but I am
sent to find those persons whose names are here
writ, and can never find what names the writing
person hath here writ. I must to the learned. In
good time!
[Enter Benvolio and Romeo]
Seonghwa(Benvolio): Tut, man one fire burns out another's
burning;
One pain is lessened by another's anguish; Turn
giddy, and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.
Hongjoong (Romeo): Your plantain leaf is excellent for that.
Seonghwa(Benvolio): For what, I pray thee?
Hongjoong (Romeo): For your broken shin.
Seonghwa(Benvolio): Why, Romeo, art thou mad?
Hongjoong (Romeo): Not mad, but bound more than a madman is;
Shut up in prison, kept without my food,
Whipped and tormented and--God-den, good
Fellow.
Servant: God gi' go-den. I pray, sir, can you read?
Hongjoong (Romeo): Ay, mine own fortune in my misery
Servant: Perhaps you have learned it without book. But
I pray, can you read anything you see?
Hongjoong (Romeo): Ay, if I know the letters and the language
Servant: Ye say honestly. Rest you merry!
[Romeo's joking goes over the clown's head. He concludes
that Romeo cannot read and prepares to seek someone who
can.]
Hongjoong (Romeo): Stay, fellow; I can read [He reads)]
"Signior Martino and his wife and daughters;
County Anselmo and his beauteous sisters;
The lady widow of Vitruvio;
Signior Placentio and his lovely nieces;
Mercutio and his brother Valentine;
Mine uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters;
Signior Valentio and his cousin Tybalt;
Lucio and the lively Helena
[Gives back the paper]
A fair assembly. Whither should they come?
Servant: Up.
Hongjoong (Romeo): Whither?
Servant: To supper, to our house.
Hongjoong (Romeo): Whose house?
Servant: My master's
Hongjoong (Romeo): indeed I should have asked you that before
Servant: Now I'll tell you without asking. My master is the great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house for Montagues, I pray come and crush a cup of wine. Rest you merry!
[Exit]
Seonghwa(benvolio): At this same ancient feast of Capulet's
Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest,
With all the admired beauties of Verona.
Go thither, and with unattained eye
Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make thee think they swan a crow.
Hongjoong (Romeo): When the devout religion of mine eye
Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires;
And these, who, often drowned, could never die,
Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!
One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun
Seonghwa (benvolio): Tut! you saw her fair, none else being by,
Herself poised with herself in either eye;
But in that crystal scales let there be weighed
Your lady's love against some other maid
That I will show you shining at this feast,
And she shall scant show well that now shows best.
Hongjoong (Romeo): I'll go along, no such sight to be shown,
But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.
[Exeunt]
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𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘫𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺/𝘯 (𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘑𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘵)
Fantasya play takes place in Verona, Italy by two families that are enemies, The Capulets and Montagues. once Romeo which is Hongjoong when he forgets about Rosaline and finds Juliet which is y/n but a tragic happens somewhere in Act 5.
