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Tlte Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet 363 Of fryer Lawrence thus araynde, that good barefooted fryre? Because that many times he woorthely did serve The commen welth, and in his lyfe was never found to swerve, He was discharged quyte, and no marke of defame Did seeme to blot, or touch at all, the honor of his name. 3000 But of him selfe he went into an Hermitage, Two myles from Veron towne, where he in prayers past forth his
age, Tyll that from earth to heaven, his heavenly sprite dyd flye. Fyve yercs he lived an Hermite, and an Hermite dyd he dye. The straungenes of the chaunce, when tryed was the truth The Montagewes and Capelets hath moved so to ruth, That with their emptyed tcares, theyr choler and theyr rage, Was emptied quite, and they whose wrath no wisdom could
asswage, Nor threatning of the prince, ne mynd of murthers donne, At length, (so mighty Jove it would) by pitye they are
wonne. 3010 And lest that length of time might from our myndes remove
The memory of so perfect, sound, and so approved love, The bodies dead removed from vaulte where they did dye, In stately tombe, on pillers great, of marble rayse they hye. On every syde above, were set and eke beneath, Great store of cunning Epitaphes, in honor of theyr death. And even at this day the tombe is to be scene, So that among the monumentes that in Verona been, There is no monument more worthy of the sight, Then is the tombe of Juliet, and Romeus her knight. 3020
!I Imprinted at London in Flete strete within Temble barre, at the signe of the hand and starre, by
Richard Tottill the xix day of November, An. do. 1562.
