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Long ago in Verona, lived two households, Capulet and Montague. A long argument had been among them. Even a small sparkle of rudeness would cause a battle. The prince of Verona grew sick of this and ordered them to stop. Both of the families were required to control their hate. But no one was more willing to have peace than Montague’s son Romeo, who admired Capulet’s niece, Rosaline.

One day, Romeo heard that there would be a banquet at the Capulets’, and Rosaline would join it. Romeo promised to be there with his friends under their masks, so no one would notice them.

When they arrived wearing masks, the dancing began. Romeo looked for Rosaline, but instead, he saw a very beautiful girl and forgot all about Rosaline. He was so amazed by the beautifulness and murmured “I’ve never seen true beauty until tonight!”

Capulet’s nephew, Tybalt heard Romeo and recognized him. Filled with anger, he moved to offend him, but Capulet told him not to bother the feast. Tybalt left swearing to avenge later.

When the next dance ended. Romeo went to the girl, took her hand, and kissed it. Just then, a woman told her to talk to her mother. Romeo asked who the girl’s mother is and found out that he had fallen in love with Capulet’s daughter, Juliet. So he left filled with puzzlement. Juliet saw him and sent a nurse to discover his name. When she came back with the name, Juliet couldn’t believe her bad luck.

Romeo stopped by the Capulet’s orchard, and climbed over the wall. He looked up and saw Juliet muttered. She spoke out loud, and heard Romeo answering. The lovers talked for a long time and promised to belong to each other forever. Friar made a plan for them to marry secretly next day. Juliet’s nurse began to tell her to go to bed, however, she couldn’t stand to say goodnight.

The next day, the lovers went to Friar Laurence’s room. He thought that maybe this may stop the hate between Capulet and Montague, so Romeo and Juliet got married.

Mean while, Tybalt challenged Romeo to a fight, because he was still angry with Romeo. When Romeo came back from the marriage, he went upon Tybalt, who reasoned with Benvolio and Mercutio. Romeo didn’t want to argue with him, but this only made things worse. Mercutio fought with Tybalt, and lost. Filled with anger, Romeo went to challenge Tybalt and killed him. Romeo was punished for that, and he was sent away.

Juliet’s parents wanted Juliet to marry Count Paris, but she refused to. She went to Friar Laurence for help. He gave Juliet a sleeping potion, which should be drank right before sleeping and Juliet would fall asleep for forty hours. Juliet pretended to argree to marry Paris, and then she drank the potion and slept a deep, deathlike sleep.

The next morning, Juliet’s father and Paris went to find her, but she was found dead. When Benvolio heard it, he rushed to tell Romeo. Unfortunately, Friar’s message never reached Romeo. When Romeo heard the news, he went to buy some deadly poison. He kissed Juliet’s lips and drank the poison. When Juliet woke up, she saw him and hoped to die with him. So she took his dagger and killed herself.

When the families heard the news, they were stunned. The prince came and said, “Capulet and Montague, see what happens laying hate on each other, both of you are punished.” Capulet and Montague agreed to make a golden statue of Romeo and one for Juliet.