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victim of your ambition, and I have ſacrificed my life to the huſband whom Heaven had given me: this is the doing; this is the fruit of your rigour. I now exhort you never to conſpire the ruin of thy ſon-in-law, but to love and cheriſh him as if he had been your own choice: be aſſured, that if you treat him ill, I will continually torment thee; you ſhall hear me, you ſhall ſee me every where; my avenging fury ſhall not leave thee a quiet moment.

Antonio.

Who then is this huſband? Tell me his name, my dear child?

Juliet.

He is the conqueror of Octavio, Romeo, the ſon of the head of the Montague faction: conſider that Heaven has formed him to appeaſe the odious diſcords which have ſo long deſolated our country.

Antonio.

Romeo your huſband! Could I have ever thought it? But it does not ſignify, I conſent to make a ſacrifice to you of my hatred; I call to witneſs this day every thing which is moſt ſacred, that Romeo ſhall in my heart find the real ſentiments of a father.


During this ſcene, Theobald, and the reſt of the Capulet party, diſcover Romeo, Anſelmo and

Marino,