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I will bite my thumb at them, which is disgrace to them if they bear it.

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Sampson to Gregory - trying to start a brawl with one of the Montagues

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Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You know not what you do.

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Benvolio - trying to stop the opening scene’s fight between Capulets and Montagues

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What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward!

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Tybalt to Benvolio - refusing the offer of peace, he insists on brawling

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Clubs, bills, and partisans! Strike! Beat them down! Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues!

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The Citizens of Verona - Sick and tired of Capulet- Montague violence, they try to stop the latest street brawl.

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CAPULET
What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!
LADY CAPULET
A crutch, a crutch! Why call you for a sword?
CAPULET
My sword, I say. Old Montague is come
And flourishes his blade in spite of me.

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Capulet and Lady Capulet - arguing over Capulet’s desire to fight Montague

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MONTAGUE
Thou villain Capulet!-Hold me not; let me go. LADY MONTAGUE
Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

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Montague - first speaking to Capulet, and then speaking to Lady Montague, who doesn’t want her husband to fight

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Three civil brawls bred of an airy word By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets And made Verona’s ancient citizens Cast by their grave-beseeming ornaments To wield old partisans in hands as old, Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate. If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace

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The Prince to Capulet, Montague, and their families after the street brawl in 1.1

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Away from light steals home my heavy son And private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, And makes himself an artificial night. Black and portentous must this humor prove, Unless good counsel may the cause remove.

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Montague to Lady Montague and Benvolio - discussing his concerns about Romeo’s depression and refusal to talk about his feelings

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See where he comes. So please you, step aside. I’ll know his grievance or be much denied.

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Benvolio to Montague and Lady Montague - agreeing to talk with Romeo and find out what is making him so depressed

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Well in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hit With Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit, And, in strong proof of chastity well armed From love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharmed…
She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow Do I live dead, that live to tell it now.

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Romeo to Benvolio - describing how Romeo loves a young woman (Rosaline) who has taken vows of chastity

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But Montague is bound as well as I, In penalty alike, and ‘tis not hard, I think, For men so old as we to keep the peace

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Capulet to Paris - after he has met with the Prince to talk about the street brawl in Act 1

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My child is yet a stranger in the world.
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years. Let two more summers wither in their pride Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride…. But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; My will to her consent is but a part. And, she agreed, within her scope of choice Lies my consent and fair according voice.

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Capulet to Paris - in response to Paris’ request to marry Juliet

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At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so loves, With all the admirèd beauties of Verona. Go thither, and with unattainted eye Compare her face with some that I shall show, And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

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Benvolio to Romeo - after learning who is invited to Capulet’s party this evening, Benvolio suggests a way to solve the problem of Romeo’s unrequited love for Rosaline

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I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown, But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.

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Romeo to Benvolio - agreeing to attend the party so that he can gaze at Rosaline

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Yes, madam, yet I cannot choose but laugh To think it should leave crying and say “Ay.” And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow A bump as big as a young cock’rel’s stone, A perilous knock, and it cried bitterly.
“Yea,” quoth my husband. “Fall’st upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age, Wilt thou not, Jule?” It stinted and said “Ay.”

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The Nurse to Lady Capulet and Juliet - fondly recalling the time when three-year-old Juliet fell on her face, got an enormous bump on her forehead, cried bitterly, but then stopped crying to answer “Yes” to the Nurse’s husband when he asked her: “When you’re grown up and smarter, you’ll fall on your back, right Juliet?”

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It is an honor that I dream not of.

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Juliet to Lady Capulet - after her mother asks her: “How stands your disposition to be married?”

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What say you? Can you love the gentleman? This night you shall behold him at our feast. Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face, And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen.

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Lady Capulet to Juliet - asking Juliet to “check Paris out” at tonight’s party and consider whether she could love him and desire him to be her husband

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ROMEO
And we mean well in going to this masque, But ‘tis no wit to go.
MERCUTIO
Why, may one ask?
ROMEO
I dreamt a dream tonight.
MERCUTIO
And so did I.
ROMEO
Well, what was yours?
MERCUTIO
That dreamers often lie.
ROMEO
In bed asleep while they do dream things true.
MERCUTIO
O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.

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Romeo arguing with Mercutio - Romeo had a dream. last night that made him feel it’s a bad idea to go to the Capulets’ party; Mercutio argues that dreams like Romeo’s mean nothing

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True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air And more inconstant than the wind…

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Mercutio to Romeo - Finishing his “Queen Mab” monologue

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…for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night’s revels, and expire the term Of a despised life closed in my breast By some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he that hath the steerage of my course Direct my sail. On, lusty gentlemen.

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Romeo to Benvolio and Mercutio - despite what his intuition tells him, Romeo decides to “go with the flow” and attend the Capulets’ party with his friends

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Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight. For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.

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Romeo - upon first seeing Juliet dancing at the Capulets’ party

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This, by his voice, should be a Montague.— Fetch me my rapier, boy. What, dares the slave Come hither covered with an antic face To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?

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Tybalt at the party when he discovers Romeo is there

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Now, by the stock and honor of my kin, To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.
Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe, A villain that is hither come in spite To scorn at our solemnity this night.

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Tybalt (continued) - at the party when he discovers Romeo is there

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Content thee, gentle coz. Let him alone. He bears him like a portly gentleman, And, to say truth, Verona brags of him To be a virtuous and well-governed youth.

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Capulet to Tybalt - at the party when Tybalt wants to kill Romeo

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I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall, Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt’rest gall.

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Tybalt - at the party when Tybalt wants to kill Romeo

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If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

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Romeo to Juliet at the party - when Romeo takes Juliet’s hand without introduction or permission, he uses elaborate religious metaphors of a “holy shrine” and “pilgrims” (1) to ask Juliet’s forgiveness and (2) to seek permission to kiss her hand

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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.

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Juliet to Romeo - she replies to Romeo by extending his chosen metaphors, adding “saints” and “holy palmers” to the conversation and telling Romeo that his hands aren’t “unworthy” at all

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28
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Is she a Capulet?
O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt

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Romeo at the party - when he learns who Juliet is

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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.

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Juliet at the party - when she learns who Romeo is

30
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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 fair than she

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Romeo in soliloquy - when he sees Juliet come to her bedroom window after the party

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O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name,
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet….
‘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. O, be some other name Belonging to a man.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And, for thy name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself.

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Juliet in soliloquy - asking aloud why Romeo is a Montague and not from some other family

32
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I take thee at thy word.
Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized. Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

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Romeo to Juliet - Romeo reveals to Juliet that he is there below the balcony and that he has heard everything she has said

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O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

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Juliet to Romeo - Juliet wants Romeo to swear he loves her, but when he tries to swear, she interrupts him with her concerns.

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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. This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. Good night, good night. As sweet repose and rest Come to thy heart as that within my breast

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Juliet to Romeo - Juliet tells Romeo not to swear his love for her because it feels too sudden. She tells him that their relationship may keep growing into something real, and she suggests that they wait and see what develops in the near future.

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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.

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Romeo feels unsatisfied saying good night to Juliet without hearing a vow of commitment from Juliet.

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Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. If that thy bent of love be honorable, 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 at thy foot I’ll lay And follow thee my lord throughout the world.

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Juliet to Romeo – Though Juliet already suggested that it is too sudden for her and Romeo to make vows of commitment to each other, she changes her mind and decides to commit to marrying Romeo.

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For naught so vile that on the Earth doth live But to the Earth some special good doth give; Nor aught so good but, strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified. Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power:
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart. Two such opposed kings encamp them still In man as well as herbs-grace and rude will; And where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.

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Friar Lawrence in soliloquy - While picking herbs, flowers, and weeds in his garden, the Friar observes that good and bad, virtue and vice, medicine and poison both exist in plants, herbs, minerals, and in human beings, as well.

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Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here! Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

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Friar Lawrence to Romeo - when Romeo asks the Friar to perform the marriage ceremony for Romeo and Juliet

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But come, young waverer, come, go with me. In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.

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Friar Lawrence to Romeo - when Romeo asks the Friar to perform the marriage ceremony for Romeo and Juliet

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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 as too slow.

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Friar Lawrence to Romeo right before he performs the marriage ceremony.

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I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire.
The day is hot, the Capels are abroad,
And if we meet we shall not ‘scape a brawl,
For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.

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Benvolio to Mercutio - before the fight breaks out in 3.1

42
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Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford
No better term than this: thou art a villain.

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Tybalt to Romeo, insulting Romeo and challenging him to a duel of honor.

43
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No, ‘tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but ‘tis enough. ‘Twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man…. Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.

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Mercutio to Romeo - after Mercutio has been stabbed under Romeo’s arm by Tybalt

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A plague o’ both your houses!
They have made worms’ meat of me.
I have it, and soundly, too. Your houses!

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Mercutio to Romeo and Tybalt - as Mercutio is dying from Tybalt’s stab-wound

45
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O, I am Fortune’s fool!

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Romeo - after he has killed Tybalt

46
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I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give. Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live.

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Lady Capulet to the Prince - after Tybalt has been killed

47
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More validity
More honorable state, more courtship lives In carrion flies than Romeo. They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s hand And steal immortal blessing from her lips… But Romeo may not; he is banished.
Flies may do this, but I from this must fly.

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Romeo to Friar Lawrence – after he learns that the Prince has banished him from Verona

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Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds, But fettle your fine joints ‘gainst Thursday next To go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church. Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. Out, you green-sickness carrion, out, you baggage! You tallow face!

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Capulet to Juliet - after she has refused to obey his order to marry Paris

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I think it best you married with the County. O, he’s a lovely gentleman! Romeo’s a dishclout to him.

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The Nurse to Juliet - after Juliet asks the Nurse how she should deal with her father’s orders to marry Paris

50
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Go, counselor.
Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.

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Juliet to the Nurse - after the Nurse has told her that she should marry Paris and forget about Romeo

51
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Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death, And therefore have I little talk of love, For Venus smiles not in a house of tears. Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous That she do give her sorrow so much sway, And in his wisdom hastes our marriage To stop the inundation of her tears, Which, too much minded by herself alone, May be put from her by society.
Now do you know the reason of this haste.

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Paris to Friar Lawrence - explaining the reasons why Capulet has hastily decided to make Juliet marry Paris

52
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If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, Then it is likely thou wilt undertake
A thing like death to chide away this shame, That cop’st with death himself to ‘scape from it; And if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy.

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Friar Lawrence to Juliet - his suggestion for how Juliet can avoid marrying Paris

53
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My dismal scene I needs must act alone.

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Juliet - before she drinks the Friar’s potion

54
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O look, methinks I see my cousin’s ghost Seeking out Romeo that did spit his body Upon a rapier’s point! Stay, Tybalt, stay!
Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink. I drink to thee.

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Juliet from her soliloquy before she drinks the Friar’s potion

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Death is my son-in-law; death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die
And leave him all. Life, living, all is death’s.

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Capulet to Paris - when Capulet has discovered that Juliet is apparently dead on the morning of her wedding to Paris

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Her body sleeps in Capel’s monument, And her immortal part with angels lives. I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault And presently took post to tell it you. O, pardon me for bringing these ill news, Since you did leave it for my office, sir.

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Balthasar to Romeo - when Balthasar goes to see romeo in Mantua and reports to Romeo that Juliet is dead

57
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Is it e’en so? Then I defy you, stars!

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Romeo - when he learns from Balthasar the news that Juliet has died

58
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Put this in any liquid thing you will / And drink it off, and if you had the strength / Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.

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The Apothecary to Romeo - after Romeo asks to purchase a poison that will kill instantly

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Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, And in despite I’ll cram thee with more food.

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Romeo - speaking to the entrance of the Capulet family tomb

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O my love, my wife,
Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.

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Romeo in soliloquy in the Capulet family tomb - speaking about the fact that Juliet’s face does not look like the face of a dead woman

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Here’s to my love. [Drinking.] O true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.

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Romeo at the end of his soliloquy in the Capulet tomb- as he drinks the poison to die by Juliet’s side

62
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Lady, come from that nest
Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep. A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents.

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Friar Lawrence to Juliet - after she has woken up and Romeo has killed himself

63
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Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O, happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die.

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Juliet to Romeo’s dagger - before she uses it on herself

64
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Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight. Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath. What further woe conspires against mine age?

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Montague to the Prince - announcing that his wife has died from heartbreak over Romeo’s banishment

65
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I am the greatest, able to do least, Yet most suspected, as the time and place Doth make against me, of this direful murder. And here I stand, both to impeach and purge Myself condemnèd and myself excused.

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Friar Lawrence to the Prince - as Friar Lawrence begins to tell the full truth about Romeo and Juliet’s relationship

66
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Where be these enemies?-Capulet, Montague, See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love,
And I, for winking at your discords too,
Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.

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The Prince to Capulet and Montague - after the truth is revealed about Romeo and Juliet’s relationship

67
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O brother Montague, give me thy hand.
This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more Can I demand.

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Capulet to Montague - After learning about Juliet’s marriage to Romeo, Capulet offers to shake hands with his sworn enemy.

68
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But I can give thee more,
For I will ray her statue in pure gold, That whiles Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set As that of true and faithful Juliet.

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Montague to Capulet - Montague offers not only to shake hands, but to build a golden statue of “true and faithful Juliet.”

69
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As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie, Poor sacrifices of our enmity.

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Capulet to Montague - Capulet offers to build a companion golden statue of Romeo.

70
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A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
Go hence to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punished. For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

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The Prince to everyone - the play’s final lines

Romeo and Juliet Final (4 decks)

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