This by his voice

This by his voice, should be a Mountague.
Fetch me my Rapier boy, what dares the slaue
Come hither couer'd with an antique face,
To fleere and scorne at our Solemnitie?
Now by the stocke and Honour of my kin,
To strike him dead I hold it not a sin

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English poet and intellectual, author of "Paradise Lost," considered the greatest epic poem in the English language.

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