Adventuring… (2.2.74-84)

JULIET                        I would not for the world they saw thee here. ROMEO           I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes,                         And but thou love me, let them find me here;                         My life were better ended by their hate,                         Than death proroguèd, wanting of thy love. JULIET                        By whose direction found’st […]

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No wall is high enough… (2.2.62-73)

JULIET                        How cam’st thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?                         The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,                         And the place death, considering who thou art,                         If any of my kinsmen find thee here. ROMEO           With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls,                         For stony limits cannot hold love out, […]

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Romeo / Not Romeo (2.2.49-61)

ROMEO                                   I take thee at thy word:                         Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptised;                         Henceforth I never will be Romeo. JULIET                        What man art thou that thus bescreened in night                         So stumblest on my counsel? ROMEO                                                           By a name                         I know not how to tell thee who I am. […]

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Names, and parts, and the scent of a rose (2.2.38-49)

JULIET                        ’Tis but thy name that is my enemy;                         Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.                         What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot,                         Nor arm nor face, nor any other part                        Belonging to a man. O be some other name! […]

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Romeo, Romeo: why?! (2.2.33-37)

JULIET                        O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?                         Deny thy father, and refuse thy name;                         Or if thou wilt not, but be sworn my love,                         And I’ll no longer be a Capulet. ROMEO           [Aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this? (2.2.33-37) Up there with Hamlet knowing Yorick really […]

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Bright angel (2.2.23-32)

ROMEO           See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!                         O that I were a glove upon that hand,                         That I might touch that cheek! JULIET                                                                                    Ay me! ROMEO                                                                                   She speaks.                         O speak again, bright angel, for thou art                         As glorious to this night, being o’er my head,                         As is […]

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Bright stars (2.2.10-22)

ROMEO           It is my lady, O it is my love:                         O that she knew she were!                         She speaks, yet she says nothing; what of that?                         Her eye discourses, I will answer it.                         I am too bold, ’tis not to me she speaks:                         Two of the fairest stars in all the […]

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But soft…. (2.2.1-9)

ROMEO           He jests at scars that never felt a wound.                         But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?                         It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.                         Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,                         Who is already sick and pale with grief                         That thou, her maid, art far more […]

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Sexy fruit, or, conjuring Romeo 3 (definitely NSFW)

BENVOLIO      Come, he hath hid himself among these trees                         To be consorted with the humorous night:                         Blind is his love, and best befits the dark. MERCUTIO     If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.                         Now will he sit under a medlar tree,                         And wish his mistress were that kind of […]

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Conjuring Romeo 2 (slightly more NSFW) (2.1.17-29)

MERCUTIO     I conjure thee by Rosaline’s bright eyes,                         By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,                         By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh,                         And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,                         That in thy likeness thou appear to us. BENVOLIO      And if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him. MERCUTIO     […]

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