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Old Capulet welcomed him and his two friends very kindly—and
young Romeo moved about among the crowd of courtly folk dressed in
their velvets and satins, the men with jewelled sword bilts and collars,
and the ladies with brilliant gems on breast and arms, and stones of price

 

 

set in their bright girdles. Romeo was in his best too, and though he
wore a black mask over his eyes and nose, every one could see by his
mouth and his hair, and the way he held his head, that he was twelve
times handsomer than any one else in the room.