RJ - Act 2 and 3 Quotes

Question 1

Chorus
2.1- Bawdy Mercutio and Benvolio

Answer 1

1) “old desire… in his deathbed lie”
2) “can I go forward when my heart is here?”
3) “humours! Madman! Passions! Lover!”
4) “and if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him” - B

Question 2

2.2 The balcony - Romeo pining over Juliet from afar

Answer 2

5) “he jests at scars that never felt a wound”
6) “it is my lady! O, it is my love!”
7) “the fairest stars in all the heaven”
8) “that I might touch that cheek!”

Question 3

2.2 The balcony - Romeo and Juliet talk and are infatuated, passionately in love

Answer 3

9) “deny thy father and refuse thy name… I’ll no longer be a Capulet”
10) “take all my self”
11) “henceforth I will never be Romeo”
12) “what love can do, that dares love attempt”
13) “they will murder thee”
14) “my life were better ended by their hate… than wanting of thy love”
15) “god of my idolatry”
16) “well do not swear”
17) “too rash, too unadvised, too sudden”
18) “send me word tomorrow”

Question 4

2.3 Friar’s introduction

Answer 4

19) “baleful weeds and precious juiced flowers.”
20) “virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied”
21) “I have forgot that name and that name’s woe”
22) “within thy help”
23) “fair daughter of rich Capulet”
24) “Is Rosaline… so soon forsaken?”
25) “Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
26) “to turn your household’s rancor to pure love”
27) “Wisely and slow. they stumble that run fast.”

Question 5

2.4 Friendship

Answer 5

28) “Where the devil should this Romeo be?” - M
29) “Romeo will answer it” - B
30) “Alas poor Romeo, he is already dead” - M
31) “prince of Cat… courageous” - M
32) “Here comes Romeo!” - N
33) “I will bite thee by the ear for that jest… Nay, good goose, bite not!” - M R
34) “commend me to thy mistress.”

Question 6

2.5 impatient Juliet

Answer 6

35) “O she is lame!… honey nurse what news?”
36) “old folks, many feign as they were dead,”
37) “sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?”
38) “I must another way, to fetch a ladder… toil in your delight”

Question 7

2.6 The Marriage

Answer 7

39) “so smiles the heaven upon this holy act”
40) “I may but call her mine.”
41) “these violent delights have violent ends”
42) “Therefore love moderately;”

Question 8

3.1 Mercutio and Tybalt’s battle before they die

Answer 8

1) “thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less”
2) “We talk here in the public… depart, here are eyes gaze upon us”
3) “I will budge for no man’s pleasure”
4) “thou art a villain”
5) “O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!”
6) “Good King of Cats… one of your nine lives… make haste”
7) “Draw Mercutio, beat down their weapons”

Question 9

3.1 The aftermath of Mercutio’s death

Answer 9

8) “A plague o’ both your houses!” x3
9) My very friend… O sweet Juliet”
10) “O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead!”
11) “Either thou or I, or both, must go with him”
12) “O, I am Fortune’s fool!”
13) “brave Mercutio. Romeo cries aloud “Hold, friends” Friends, part!”

Question 10

3.2 Juliet waiting for Romeo, and her reaction to Romeo’s banishment

Answer 10

14) “Come, night. Come, Romeo.”
15) “my dearest cousin, and my dearer lord?”
16) “Beautful tyrant! Fiend angelical!”
17) “O, what a beast I was to chide him”
18) “That one word “banished” hath slain ten thousand Tybalts”
19) “no end, no limit, no measure”

Question 11

3.3 Romeo’s reaction to his banishment with the Friar

Answer 11

20) “There is no word without Verona walls but purgatory, hell itself”
21) “O rude unthankfulness! … That is dear mercy, and thou sees it not” - F
22) “heaven is here where Juliet lives”
23) “but he is banished. But I am banished.”
24) “madmen have no ears” - F
25) “How is it with her… and how doth she?”
26) “ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her” - F

Question 12

3.4,3.5 - Capulet’s disowning Juliet

Answer 12

27) “I think she will be ruled… wife go you”
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30) “Madam I am not well… feeling so the loss”
31) “villain lives which slaughtered him”
32) “I will not marry yet, and when I do, I swear it shall be Romeo… I hate”
33) “I beseech you on my knees, hear me with patience”
34) “young baggage, disobedient wretch!”
35) “peace, you mumbling fool!”
36) “hang, beg, starve die in the streets”
37) “O sweet my mother, cast me not away!”
38) “I have done with thee”

Question 13

3.5 Juliet with Romeo and the Nurse

Answer 13

28) “therefore stay yet; thou need’st not to be gone”
29) “thinkst thou we shall ever meet again? … I doubt it not”
39) “comfort me, counsel me.”
40) “happy in this second match… excels your first”
41) “Speaskst thou from thy heart?”
42) “If all else fail, myself have power to die”