Question

select the correct text in the passage. which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeares romeo and juliet best convey friar laurences ideas about the coexistence of good and evil? friar laurence: the grey - eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light, and flecked darkness like a drunkard reels from forth days path and titans fiery wheels: now, ere the sun advance his burning eye, the day to cheer and nights dank dew to dry, i must up - fill this osier cage of ours with baleful weeds and precious - juiced flowers. the earth thats natures mother is her tomb; what is her burying grave that is her womb, and from her womb children of divers kind we sucking on her natural bosom find, many for many virtues excellent, none but for some and yet all different. o, mickle is the powerful grace that lies in herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: for nought so vile that on the earth doth live but to the earth some special good doth give, nor aught so good but straind from that fair use revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; and vice sometimes by action dignified. within the infant rind of this small flower poison hath residence and medicine power: for this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; being tasted, stays all senses with the heart

Explanation:

Friar Laurence's lines about how nothing is completely vile as it gives some good to the earth, and nothing is so good that it can't be misused and turn into vice, along with the example of the flower having both poison - like and medicine - like properties, best convey the co - existence of good and evil.

Answer:

For nought so vile that on the earth doth live / But to the earth some special good doth give, / Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: / Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; / And vice sometimes by action dignified.