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ROMEO AND JULIET. 21 

Servant. Find them out whose names are written here ! 
It is written that the shoemaker shouhl meddle with his 
yard and the tailor with his last, the fisher with his 
pencil and the painter with his nets ; but I am sent to 
find those persons whose names are here writ, and can 
never find what names the writing person hath here Avrit. 
I must to the learned. — In good time. 

Enter Benvolio and Romeo. 
Benvol'io. Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burn- 

One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish ; 
Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning ; 

One desperate grief cures with another's languish : 
Take thou some new infection to thy eye. 
And the rank poison of the old will die. 

Romeo. Your plantain-leaf is excellent for that. 

Benvolio. For what, I pray thee ? 

Romeo. For your broken shin. 

Benvolio. Why, Romeo, art thou mad ? 

Romeo. ISTot mad, but bound more than a madman is ; 
Shut up in prison, kept without my food, 
Whipp'd and tormented and — Good-den, good fellow. 

Servant. God gi' good-den. — I pray, sir, can you read? 

Romeo. Ay, mine own fortune in my misery. 

Servant. Perhaps you have learned it without book ; 
but, I pray, can you read anything you see ?