Excerpt from "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet"

In the first scene from Act 3 of William Shakespeare's play, the Prince tries to restore order and justice after a fatal fight.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 10 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Romeo and Juliet, A Sport of Nature, Julius Caesar, Les Miserables, Oedipus Rex, Antigone
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  1. vile
    morally reprehensible
    Where are the vile beginners of this fray?
  2. brawl
    a noisy fight in a crowd
    O noble prince, I can discover all
    The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl
  3. fray
    a noisy fight
    Benvolio, who began this bloody fray?
  4. spleen
    a feeling of resentful anger
    Could not take truce with the unruly spleen
    Of Tybalt deaf to peace
  5. scorn
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
    And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats
    Cold death aside
  6. stout
    having rugged physical strength
    And to 't they go like lightning, for, ere I
    Could draw to part them, was stout Tybalt slain.
  7. strife
    bitter conflict; heated or violent dissension
    Some twenty of them fought in this black strife
  8. conclude
    bring to a close
    His fault concludes but what the law should end,
    The life of Tybalt.
  9. exile
    expel from a country
    And for that offence
    Immediately we do exile him hence
  10. repent
    feel sorry for; be contrite about
    But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine
    That you shall all repent the loss of mine
Created on Wed Oct 15 10:47:54 EDT 2014 (updated Wed Oct 15 15:47:45 EDT 2014)

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