Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary WS

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CONTEXT: "Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, profaners of this neighbor-stained steel – will they not
hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts, that quench the fire of your pernicious rage with purple fountains
issuing from your veins! On pain of torture, from those bloody hands throw your mistempered weapons to
the ground…”
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CONTEXT: "This love that thou hast shown doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is smoke
raised with the fume of sighs; being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; being vexed, a sea nourished
with lovers’ tears.”
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3.
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CONTEXT: "You have dancing shoes with nimble soles; I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I
cannot move.”
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4.
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CONTEXT: ”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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5.
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CONTEXT: "Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone…I would not for the wealth of all this town here
in my house do him disparagement. Therefore, be patient, take no note of him.”
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6.
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CONTEXT: "She speaks yet she says nothing. What of that? Her eye discourses, I will answer it."
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7.
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CONTEXT: "O gentle Romeo, if thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou thinkest I am too quickly
won, I’ll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay…”
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8.
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CONTEXT: "Good night, good night! As sweet repose and rest come to thy heart as that within my
breast!”
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9.
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CONTEXT: ”Thou chid’st me oft for loving Rosaline…I pray thee chide me not. She whom I love now doth
grace for grace and love for love allow. The other did not so.”
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10.
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CONTEXT: ”For this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancor to pure love.”
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CONTEXT: ”Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo.”
“Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels? As thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing
but discords. Here’s my fiddlestick; here’s that shall make you dance. Zounds, consort!”
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12.
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CONTEXT: ”So tedious is this day as is the night before some festival to an impatient child that hath new
robes and may not wear them.”
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13.
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CONTEXT: ”O Fortune, Fortune! all men call thee fickle. If thou art fickle what dost thou with him
that is renowned for faith? Be fickle. Fortune, for that I hope thou wilt not keep him long but send him
back.”
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14.
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CONTEXT: ”…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…”
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15.
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CONTEXT: ”All things that we ordained festival turn from their office to black funeral – Our instruments to
melancholy bells, our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast…”
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16.
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CONTEXT: ”Romeo! Alack, alack, what blood is this which stains the stony entrance of this sepulcher?
What mean these masterless and gory swords to lie discolored by this place or peace?”
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17.
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CONTEXT: ”Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while, till we can clear these ambiguities and know their
spring, their head, their true descent; and then will I be general of your woes and lead you even to death.
Meantime forbear and let mischance be slave to patience.”
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18.
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CONTEXT: "And she, there dead, that Romeo’s faithful wife. I married them; and their stol’n marriage day
was Tybalt’s doomsday, whose untimely death banished the new-made bridesgroom from this city; for whom,
and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined. You, to remove that siege of grief from her, betrothed and would have
married her perforce to County Paris.”
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