Shakespeare plays ROMEO, a young lover

Illustration: Shakespeare plays Romeo dressed in Elizabethan styl; he looks cheerful, one arm around Juliet‘s waist (who is in her nightgown), the other thrown out in an expansive gesture

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The two lovers have met secretly, and are on Juliet's balcony discussing if it is yet dawn. They decide that it is, and that Romeo should leave before they are discovered.
Romeo and Juliet
Act 3 Scene 5

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