Oh, you're just going to talk about banishment
again.
FRIAR LAWRENCE
I'll give thee armor to keep off that word—
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Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy—
To comfort thee though thou art banishèd.
FRIAR LAWRENCE
I'll give you protection from that word. I'll
give you the antidote for trouble: philosophy. Philosophy will
comfort you even though you've been banished.
ROMEO
Yet “banishèd”? Hang up
philosophy!
Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom,
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It helps not, it prevails not. Talk no more.
ROMEO
You're still talking about
“banished?” Forget about philosophy! Unless
philosophy can create a Juliet, or pick up a town and put it
somewhere else, or reverse a prince's punishment, it
doesn't do me any good. Don't say anything
else.
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Oh, then I see that madmen have no ears.
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Oh, so madmen like you are also deaf.
ROMEO
How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?
ROMEO
How should madmen hear, if wise men can't even
see?
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Let me dispute with thee of thy estate.
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Let me talk to you about your situation.
ROMEO
Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel.
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Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,
An hour but married, Tybalt murderèd,
Doting like me, and like me banishèd,
Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair
And fall upon the ground, as I do now,
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Taking the measure of an unmade grave.
ROMEO
You can't talk about something that you don't
feel. If you were as young as I am, if you were in love with Juliet,
if you had just married her an hour ago, if then you murdered
Tybalt, if you were lovesick like me, and if you were banished, then
you might talk about it. You might also tear your hair out of your
head and collapse to the ground the way I do right now.
(ROMEO
falls on
the ground)
You might kneel down and measure the grave that hasn't yet
been dug.
Knocking from within
Knocking from offstage.
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Arise. One knocks. Good Romeo, hide thyself.
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Get up. Somebody's knocking. Hide yourself, good
Romeo.
