which he ſends you, to terminate your misfortunes.
Juliet.
What is his opinion, what effects will this liquor produce? Is this all the aſſiſtance which I am to expect from him?
Celia.
You are not ignorant, that he is one of the wiſeſt and moſt learned men in the world; he aſſerts that this liquor will eaſe your ſorrows; put confidence in his word.
Juliet.
Aurelio is a great philoſopher; the properties of all plants are known to him, and all the ſecrets of nature. To the moſt ſublime ſciences he joins a fund of admirable virtues; he loves me, he loves Romeo, and ever ſince he married us, he has called us his children; yet, I am afraid leſt this liquor ſhould prove a philtre, the effects of which are to make me forget my huſband, and conſtrain me to entertain an inclination for his rival! Ah, Celia! my love for Romeo is precious to me, and I feel that it would be a greater happineſs to me to expire with it, than to live in tranquility and change the object of it.
Celia.
Excuſe me, Madam, if I preſume to tell you, that, in my opinion, your ſuſpicions are unjuſt. Aurelio is too virtuous to wiſh to inſpire you with
