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... fair Verona , where we lay our scene , From ancient grudge break to new mutiny , Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean . From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star - cross'd lovers take their life ; Whose ...
... fair Verona , where we lay our scene , From ancient grudge break to new mutiny , Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean . From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star - cross'd lovers take their life ; Whose ...
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... fair daylight out And makes himself an artificial night : Black and portentous must this humour prove , Unless good counsel may the cause remove . Ben . My noble uncle , do you know the cause ? Mon. I neither know it nor can learn of ...
... fair daylight out And makes himself an artificial night : Black and portentous must this humour prove , Unless good counsel may the cause remove . Ben . My noble uncle , do you know the cause ? Mon. I neither know it nor can learn of ...
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... fair I love . Ben . A right fair mark , fair coz , is soonest hit . Rom . 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 arm'd , 192. who is that ] who ...
... fair I love . Ben . A right fair mark , fair coz , is soonest hit . Rom . 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 arm'd , 192. who is that ] who ...
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... thy complaint , and pitty ere thou sterve . " The meaning of this passage is evidently , " Through her severity beauty will be perished , die out . " She is too fair , too wise , wisely too ACT I , SC . i . ] 27 ROMEO AND JULIET .
... thy complaint , and pitty ere thou sterve . " The meaning of this passage is evidently , " Through her severity beauty will be perished , die out . " She is too fair , too wise , wisely too ACT I , SC . i . ] 27 ROMEO AND JULIET .
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William Shakespeare Jill L. Levenson. She is too fair , too wise , wisely too fair , To merit bliss by making me despair : She hath forsworn to love ; and in that vow Do I live dead , that live to tell it now . Ben . Be ruled by me ...
William Shakespeare Jill L. Levenson. She is too fair , too wise , wisely too fair , To merit bliss by making me despair : She hath forsworn to love ; and in that vow Do I live dead , that live to tell it now . Ben . Be ruled by me ...
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Page 98 - 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, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O! be some other name: What's in a name ? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title.
Page 112 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Page 101 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Page 158 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a churchdoor ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses ! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death ! a braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic ! Why the devil came you between us ? I was hurt under your arm.
Page 66 - a lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice. Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 94 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Page 95 - Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head ? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp ; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night...
Page 63 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 102 - I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Page 168 - 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.