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This scene reveals the engine driving the action of the play, which is the impending ruin of the Montagues and Capulets due to bad investments. The two brothers, non-identical twins, have grown apart as their masters quarreled. However, they realise that they will be blamed for their master's misfortunes, and so strike on the idea of having Romeo and Juliet marry. The two characters are sympathetic ones, but have the flaw of having a good idea but trying to make it happen in an underhand way.
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(Balthazar paces a while, in medieval clothes, clutching a dim lantern, until his brother approaches from the other direction.)
Balthazar: Halt! Who goes there?
Jedediah: Your brother, and your mortal enemy.
Balthazar: That you are my brother, I doubt not. And that we are mortal, I regret, since perforce, one must stand at the other’s grave, unless, by
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