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Romeo, Lines 223b-232
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Act 1,
Scene 1
Lines 223b-232

Romeo performs a speech from Act 1, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 1.1 Performance: Romeo, Lines 223b-232

Romeo

                                         'Tis the way
To call hers, exquisite, in question more.
These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows,
Being black, put us in mind they hide the fair.
He that is strucken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
Show me a mistress that is passing fair —
What doth her beauty serve but as a note
Where I may read who passed that passing fair?           
Farewell. Thou canst not teach me to forget.