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O comfortable friar, where is my lord?

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Juliet
O comfortable friar, where is my lord?
I do remember well where I should be,
And there I am. Where is my Romeo?
Friar Lawrence
I hear some noise.—Lady, come from that nest
Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep.

O, happy dagger,
This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die.
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Act 5
Scene 3
Line 153

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This is the place, there where the torch doth burn

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Page
This is the place, there where the torch doth burn.
First Watch
The ground is bloody.—Search about the churchyard.
Go, some of you; whoe’er you find, attach.
  Some watchmen exit.

We see the ground whereon these woes do lie,
But the true ground of all these piteous woes
We cannot without circumstance descry

Pitiful sight!
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Act 5
Scene 3
Line 176

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What misadventure is so early up

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Prince
What misadventure is so early up
That calls our person from our morning rest?
  Enter Capulet and Lady Capulet.
Capulet
What should it be that is so shrieked abroad?
Lady Capulet
O, the people in the street cry “Romeo,”
Some “Juliet,” and some “Paris,” and all run
With open outcry toward our monument.
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Act 5
Scene 3
Line 195

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