Lines outside of queen mab

Question 1

Start of scene

Answer 1

Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.

Question 2

Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

Answer 2

You are a lover. Borrow cupid’s wings and soar with them above a common bound.

Question 3

I am too sore empiercèd with his shaft to soar with his light feathers, and so bound, I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe; Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.

Answer 3

And, to sink in it should you burden love. Too great oppression for a tender thing.

Question 4

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

Answer 4

If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for prickling, and you beat love down.

Question 5

Benvolio passes out masks

Answer 5

Give me a case to put my visage in. A visor for a visor- what care I what curious eye doth cote deformities?

Question 6

Romeo chooses mask

Answer 6

Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me

Question 7

A torch for me. Let wantons, light of heart, tickle the senseless rushes with their heels; for I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase. I’ll be a candle-holder and look on; the game was ne’er so fair, and I am done.

Answer 7

Tut, dun’s the mouse, the constable’s own word. If thou art dun, we’ll draw thee from the mire, or -save your reverance- love, wherein thou stickest up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!

Question 8

Nay, that’s not so.

Answer 8

I mean, sir in delay we waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. Take our good meaning for our judgement sits five times in that ere once in our five wits.

Question 9

And we mean well in going to this mask; but ‘tis no wit to go.

Answer 9

and why, may one ask?

Question 10

I dreamt a dream tonight

Answer 10

and so did I

Question 11

well, what was yours?

Answer 11

that dreamers often lie.