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SCENE VI. Friar Lawrence’s Cell.Enter Friar Lawrence and Romeo. FRIAR LAWRENCE.So smile the heavens upon this holy actThat after-hours with sorrow chide us not. ROMEO.Amen, amen, but come what sorrow can,It cannot countervail the exchange of joyThat one short minute gives me in her sight.Do thou but close our hands with holy words,Then love-devouring death do what he dare,It is enough I may but call her mine. FRIAR LAWRENCE.These violent delights have violent ends,And in their triumph die; like fire and powder,Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousness,And in the taste confounds the appetite.Therefore