Romeo & Juliet Act 3 Flashcards
A plague a’both your houses!
~MERCUITIO
A curse on both Capulets and Montagues
Tyrant, the reason that I have to love thee
Doth much excuse the appertaining rage
To such a greeting.
~ROMEO
Romeo is giving an obscure hint that love (for Juliet) is his reason for not showing the anger expected at Tybalt’s insult
This day’s black fate on more days doth depend.
This but begins the woe others must end.
~ROMEO
Today’s bad luck will overshadow all that is to follow. Today’s misery will reach its conclusion in the days to come.
Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.
ROMEO
Either you or I, or both of us, must go to heavan with Mercuitio.
O, I am fortune’s fool!
~ROMEO
O, I am a laughing stock!
I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give.
Romeo slew Tybalt. Romeo must not live.
~LADY CAPULET
I beg for justice, that you Prince must give.
Romeo killed Tybalt. Romeo must not live.
Come, gentle night. Come, loving, black-browned night.
Give me my Romeo, and when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
~JULIET
When Romeo dies, cut his face into little stars so that everyone can be in love with night as I am, and not worship the sun anymore.
O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
~JULIET
Juliet is saying that Romeo is the opposite to what he seems
There’s no trust
No faith, no honesty in men;
~NURSE
Don’t trust men,
They have no faith or honesty
My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;
And Tybalt’s dead, that would have slain my husband.
~JULIET
My Romeo
Heaven is here,
Where Juliet lives.
~ROMEO
Verona, where Juliet, is heaven to Romeo.
Doth she not think me an old murderer,
Now I have stained the childhood of our joy,
With blood removed but little from her own?
~ROMEO
Does she not think me as an experienced murderer,
Now that I have stained her childhood
With the blood of her close relative
These times of woe afford no time to woo.
~PARIS
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I think she will be ruled,
In all aspects by me.
~CAPULET
She will do whatever I say
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
~ROMEO
I must go if I am to live.