JULIET Romeo! ROMEO My nïesse? JULIET What a’clock tomorrow Shall I send to thee? ROMEO By the hour of nine. JULIET I will not fail, ’tis twenty year till then. I have forgot why I did call thee back. ROMEO Let me stand here till thou remember it. JULIET I shall forget, […]
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Hisssssst! (2.2.158-166)
Enter Juliet again[above]. JULIET Hist, Romeo, hist! O, for a falc’ner’s voice, To lure this tassel-gentle back again: Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud, Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies, And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine With repetition of my Romeo’s name. […]
Continue ReadingA thousand times good night! (2.2.149-157)
NURSE [Within] Madam! JULIET I come, anon. – But if thou meanest not well, I do beseech thee— NURSE [Within] Madam! JULIET By and by I come— To cease thy strife, and leave me to my grief. Tomorrow will I send. ROMEO So thrive my soul— JULIET A thousand times good […]
Continue ReadingHonourable marriage (2.2.142-148)
[Enter Juliet above.] JULIET Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. If that thy bent of love be honourable, Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow, By one that I’ll procure to come to thee, Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite, And all my fortunes […]
Continue ReadingSweet dreams? (2.2.136-141)
[Nurse calls within.] JULIET I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu! – Anon, good Nurse! – Sweet Montague, be true. Stay but a little, I will come again. ROMEO O blessèd, blessèd night! I am afeard, Being in night, all this is but a dream, Too flattering-sweet to […]
Continue ReadingCan’t get no…? (2.2.125-135)
ROMEO O wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? JULIET What satisfaction canst thou have tonight? ROMEO Th’exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine. JULIET I gave thee mine before thou didst request it; And yet I would it were to give again. ROMEO Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love? JULIET But […]
Continue ReadingGood night! (not really) (2.2.115-124)
ROMEO If my heart’s dear love— JULIET Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee I have no joy of this contract tonight, It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say ‘It lightens’. Sweet, good night: […]
Continue ReadingSwearing / not swearing (2.2.107-115)
ROMEO Lady, by yonder blessèd moon I vow, That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops – JULIET O swear not by the moon, th’inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. ROMEO What shall I swear by? JULIET Do not swear at all; […]
Continue ReadingDark night, light love (2.2.93-106)
JULIET O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully; Or if thou think’st I am too quickly won, I’ll frown and be perverse, and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo, but else not for the world. In truth, […]
Continue ReadingNot blushing (2.2.85-93)
JULIET Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke, but farewell compliment. Dost thou love me? I know […]
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