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R&J Quotes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| nurse | On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen. That shall she,marry, I remember it well. ‘Tis since the earthquake now eleven years…” |
| friar | “The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Chequ’ring the Eastern clouds with streaks of light; An flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day’s path and Titan’s fiery wheels |
| romeo | “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!” |
| mercutio | “A plague o’ both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me.” |
| prince | “If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.” |
| juliet | “O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? |
| benevolio | “Thou canst not teach me to forget.” |
| romeo | “I fear. Too early; for my mind misgives, Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin his fearful date…” |
| juliet | “Good Pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrim’s hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.” |
| romeo | “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon…” |
| romeo | “Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be…” |
| mercutio | “Romeo! humors! madman! passions! lover! […] Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim…” |
| friar | “Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.” |
| romeo | “Then let love-devouring death do what he dare It is enough I may but call her mine.” |
| lady capulet | “This precious book of love, this unbound lover, To beautify him only lacks a cover.” |
| juliet | “…O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” |
| mercutio | “O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is a fairies midwife….” |
| romeo | “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready to stand To smooth that rough touch with tender kiss.” |
| juliet | “My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!” |
| juliet | Give me my Romeo and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine…” |
| juliet | “Romeo is ‘banished’ – to speak that word Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet All slain, all dead.” |
| benevolio | “Compare her face with some that I will show, And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” |