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Your plantain leaf is excellent for that.

BENVOLIO

For what, I pray thee?

ROMEO

For your broken shin.

BENVOLIO

Why, Romeo, art thou mad?

ROMEO

Not mad, but bound more than a madman is:
Shut up in prison, kept without my food, [55]
Whipp’d and tormented and - good e’en, good fellow.

SERVANT

God gi’ good e’en; I pray, sir, can you read?

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? [60]

ROMEO

Ay, if I know the letters and the language.

SERVANT

Ye say honestly; rest you merry.

ROMEO

Stay, fellow, I can read.
He reads the letter.

Signor Martino and his wife and daughters;
County Anselm and his beauteous sisters; [65]
The lady widow of Utruvio;
Signor Placentio and his lovely nieces;