THEME: Love Flashcards
ACT 1 SCENE 1
Romeo: “Love is a smoke…”
“…made from the fume of sighs”
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Romeo [about Rosaline]: “She will not stay the siege of loving terms…”
“…Nor bide th’encounter of assailing eyes, nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold”
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Romeo [about love] “Feather of —-, bright —-, —– fire, —– —-“
“Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health”
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Romeo [about the feud between the Cs and Ms]: “Here’s much to do with hate…”
“… but more with love”
ACT 1 SCENE 2
Benvolio [to Romeo, about Rosaline]: “Compare her face with some that I will show…”
“… and I will make thee think thy swan a crow”
ACT 1 SCENE 2
Romeo [about Rosaline]: “One fairer than my love! The all-seeing…”
“… sun never saw her match since first the world begun”
ACT 1 SCENE 4
Romeo: “Is love a tender thing?…”
“…It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”
ACT 1 SCENE 4
Romeo: “I have a soul of lead…”
“… So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”
ACT 1 SCENE 4
Romeo [about Cupid]: “I am too sore enpierced with his….”
“… shaft to soar with his light feathers”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [about Juliet]: “Oh she doth teach…”
“… the torches to burn bright!”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [about Juliet]: “As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear…”
“… - Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear”
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Romeo [about Juliet]: “a snowy —– trooping with —–”
“A snowy dove trooping with crows”
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Juliet [about Romeo]: “If he be married, my —– is like to be my —— ——”
“If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [to Juliet]: “If I profane with my unworthiest hand…”
“… this holy shrine”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [to Juliet]: “Thus from my lips, by thine, …”
“… my sin is purged”