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Of an old tear that is not wash’d off yet. Exeunt.
If ere thou wast thyself, and these woes thine,
Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline.
And art thou chang’d? Pronounce this sentence then: [75]
Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

ROMEO

Thou chid’st me oft for loving Rosaline.

FRIAR LAURENCE

For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.

ROMEO

And bad’st me bury love.

FRIAR LAURENCE

Not in a grave
To lay one in, another out to have. [80]

ROMEO

I pray thee chide me not, her I love now
Doth grace for grace and love for love allow.
The other did not so.

FRIAR LAURENCE

O, she knew well
Thy love did read by rote that could not spell.
But come young waverer, come, go with me, [85]
In one respect I’ll thy assistant be.
For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.

ROMEO

O let us hence: I stand on sudden haste.

FRIAR LAURENCE

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. [90]

Scene IV IT