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“How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?”

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Juliet asks it when Romeo appears at her window, and the question is the practical one: he should not be here at all. Shakespeare keeps the moment grounded in risk and trespass, which is part of why the play's first love feels like an accident rather than a plan.

Source: Romeo and Juliet

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