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Question 1

Romeo: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss

Answer 1

Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss

Question 2

Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmer’s too?

Answer 2

Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

Question 3

Romeo: O, then dear saint, let lips do what hands do; They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair

Answer 3

Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.

Question 4

Romeo: Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.

Answer 4

Then have my lips the sin that they have took?

Question 5

Romeo: Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.

Answer 5

You kiss by the book

Question 6

Capulet: Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late: I’ll to my rest

Answer 6

Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?

Question 7

Nurse: The son and heir of old Tiberio

Answer 7

What’s he that now is going out of door?

Question 8

Nurse: Marry, that, I think, be young Petrucio.

Answer 8

What’s he that follows there, that would not dance?

Question 9

Nurse: I know not.

Answer 9

Go ask his name: if he be married. My grave is like to be my wedding bed.

Question 10

Nurse: His name is Romeo, and a Montague; The only son of your great enemy

Answer 10

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy.

Question 11

Nurse: What’s this? what’s this?

Answer 11

A rhyme I learn’d even now
Of one I danced withal