Faculty of English

FRIAR              These violent delights have violent ends,                         And in their triumph die like fire and powder,                         Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey                         Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,                         And in the taste confounds the appetite.                         Therefore love moderately, long love doth so;                         Too swift arrives as tardy […]

[2.6] Enter FRIAR [LAWRENCE] and ROMEO. FRIAR              So smile the heavens upon this holy act,                         That after-hours with sorrow chide us not. ROMEO           Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,                         It cannot countervail the exchange of joy                         That one short minute gives me in her sight.                         Do thou but close our hands with […]

NURSE            Have you got leave to go to shrift today? JULIET           I have. NURSE            Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’ cell,                         There stays a husband to make you a wife.                         Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks,                         They’ll be in scarlet straight at any […]

NURSE            Your love says, like an honest gentleman,                         And a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome,                         And I warrant a virtuous—Where is your mother? JULIET                        Where is my mother? why, she is within,                         Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest:                         ‘Your love says, like an honest gentleman,                         “Where […]

NURSE            Well, you have made a simple choice, you know not how to choose a man: Romeo? no, not he; though his face be better than any man’s, yet his leg excels all men’s, and for a hand and a foot and a body, though they be not to be talked on, yet they are […]

NURSE            Jesu, what haste! can you not stay a while?                         Do you not see that I am out of breath? JULIET                        How art thou art of breath, when thou hast breath                         To say to me that thou art out of breath?                         The excuse that thou dost make in this delay                         […]

Enter NURSE [with PETER]. JULIET                        O God, she comes! O honey Nurse, what news?                         Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away. NURSE            Peter, stay at the gate.                      [Exit Peter] JULIET                        Now, good, sweet Nurse—O Lord, why look’st thou sad?                         Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;                         If good, thou shamest the […]

JULIET                        Now is the sun upon the highmost hill                         Of this day’s journey, and from nine till twelve                         Is three long hours, yet she is not come.                         Had she affections and warm youthful blood,                         She would be swift in motion as a ball;                         My words would bandy her to my […]

[2.5]    Enter JULIET JULIET                        The clock struck nine when I did send the Nurse;                         In half an hour she promised to return.                         Perchance she cannot meet him: that’s not so.                         O, she is lame! Love’s heralds should be thoughts,                         Which ten times faster glides than the sun’s beams,                         Driving back shadows […]

NURSE            Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter? ROMEO           Ay, Nurse, what of that? Both with an R. NURSE            Ah, mocker, that’s the dog-name. R is for the—no, I know it begins with some other letter – and she hath the prettiest sententious of it, of you and rosemary, that it would […]