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Will Shakespeare shows up at the De Lesseps' home looking for a young man named Thomas Kent to offer him the role of Romeo in his play. He and his friend and colleague, Kit Marlowe, end up at a party where he sees Viola De Lesseps (who was in disguise as Thomas Kent) and immediately falls for her. They speak and Viola is also enamored, so Will and Kit sneak into the De Lesseps' garden after the party. Will speaks to Viola but has nothing poetic to say, so Kit feeds him poetry to say to Viola.
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Start: Marlowe: Look. There she is.
Will: Shh.
Marlowe: Go on and talk to her.
Will: You’ll have us caught.
[... .. ...]
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Viola: Good sir, do not use yourself all up.
Will: With love’s light wings, do I o’erperch these walls. For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do, that dares love attempt. Therefore they kinsmen are no stop to me.
Marlowe: Very good.
Will: Thank you.
Hall, Lee, Shakespeare in Love, Faber and Faber, 2014, pp. 26-32.
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