Romeo and Juliet Lessons and Ideas
(my favorites for reluctant and/or struggling readers) An overview of using the documents and material.
PreReading
 Slang dictionary
 Opinionaire / discussion
 Why we should learn Shakespeare project (as background on the man and his life and work)
 Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
 Distribute vocabulary as a reference sheet
During reading
 Journals
 Study guides or Reading logs
 Prologue Puzzle
 Prologue STOMP iambic pentameter
 Shakespeare Insults
 Draw Queen Mab and the details. Students do a very close reading here to get all the
details of Mercutio’s description.
 Create masks and act out the party scene with dance (teach Saints dance)
 Watch scenes from various video productions (except the newest)
After Reading
 Perform a “memorization” of monologues or scenes in groups – Have them act it out in
order as a review of the play.
 Revisit Opinionaire to see if any opinons changed
 Write a reflection paper or a letter to next year’s students about the reading of the play.
Did it get easier / harder? How do you feel you did with your first experience with
Shakespeare? What did you learn? Do you feel you understand the language? Did you
like it more, or less than you thought you would? Keep the positive ones to show other
students the following year.
 Test on quotes and overall theme OR
 Watch modern version of Romeo and Juliet (with Leonardo DiCaprio and Clare Danes)
Students take notes on how the director made the play work / not work. Then students
write a review as a test grade.
Additional Resources
 http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/educators Lots of great lessons on this site with
inteactive features to assist.
 http://www.argo217.k12.il.us/departs/english/blettiere/romeojuliet.htm The study
guides for each act on this teacher’s site are really good.
 http://shakespeare.palomar.edu This site offers just about EVERYTHING Shakespeare
 http://literature.pppst.com/STU/shakespeare.html -- This site has some great
powerpoints on Romeo and Juliet and the life and times of Shakespeare
Opinionaire
Use the following numbers to rate the statements below.
0 = I have no idea or no opinion regarding the matter.
1 = I strongly disagree
2 = I somewhat disagree.
3 = I somewhat agree.
4 = I strongly agree.
___ Parents know what is best for their children more so than the children themselves.
___ Young people feel emotions more deeply than older people.
___People who are deeply in love act irrationally.
___ Rage leads to tragedy.
___ Sins of one generation affect the next.
___ People who marry too young are likely to regret it.
___ People have a responsibility to avenge wrongs done against family members.
___ Hate is a more powerful emotion than love.
___ Our lives are governed by our choices more so than by some controlling fate in which we do not participate.
___ People should not marry without the blessing of their friends and family.
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Make copies of this page. Cut lines into individual strips. Put students in pairs and give them an envelope with
the lines. Have them arrange the lines until it makes sense. Discuss the rhyme scheme of a sonnet as a hint.
Walk around and assist them. They will start to understand the language and sonnet form as they try to solve
the puzzle.
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In 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 misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Notes
Name: _________________________ Date: ________
Prologue
Why would Shakespeare write in iambic pentameter?
What is the purpose of the prologue?
Lines
Your interpretation
Words you don’t
know /guess
meaning
1-4
5-8
9-14
Difficulty level: (easiest) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (cannot understand at all)
Questions
Romeo and Juliet Common Vocabulary
NOTE: Some words are combined to keep the rhythm:
‘tis = it is
e’er = ever
o’er = over
adversary – enemy
ain- gladly
alack- gee (expression of dismay)
alas – an expression of sadness or regret
an- if
anon- in a minute
art - are
aside- little soliloquy
attend – to wait upon
ay - yes
but – except for
don- to put on
doth - does
ere- before
fair- pretty
fickle- can’t make up your mind
forsooth – in truth, in fact
fray – fight/battle
go to- stop, get out
hath – has, have
hence –from this time forward
hither- here
humorous- fitful
idle- lazy
knave – young boy or male servant
lest - unless
marry- “by the Virgin Mary” a swear word
methinks- I think
mickle- much
nay- no
naught - nothing
ne’er- never
o’er- over
perchance- perhaps, for the chance
rancor- hatred
sirrah- servant
soft- wait
suit(or)- proposal, one who proposes
thee, thou, thy – you
thine - your
thither- there
thyself - yourself
wherefore- why (“Wherefore art thou Romeo?” means
why are you Romeo, a Capulet—it does not mean where are
you as it is often misquoted.)
whither - where
woe- sorrow
woo- to date
zounds- "by God’s wounds
List other words that are repetitve and
troublesome for you.
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Shakespearean Insults: combine one word from each of the three columns below, and preface it with "Thou":
Column 1
adjective
artless
bawdy
beslubbering
bootless
churlish
cockered
clouted
craven
currish
dankish
dissembling
droning
errant
fawning
fobbing
froward
frothy
gleeking
goatish
gorbellied
impertinent
infectious
jarring
loggerheaded
lumpish
mammering
mangled
mewling
paunchy
pribbling
puking
puny
qualling
rank
reeky
roguish
ruttish
saucy
spleeny
spongy
surly
tottering
unmuzzled
vain
venomed
villainous
warped
wayward
weedy
yeasty
Column 2
adjective
base-court
bat-fowling
beef-witted
beetle-headed
boil-brained
clapper-clawed
clay-brained
common-kissing
crook-pated
dismal-dreaming
dizzy-eyed
doghearted
dread-bolted
earth-vexing
elf-skinned
fat-kidneyed
fen-sucked
flap-mouthed
fly-bitten
folly-fallen
fool-born
full-gorged
guts-griping
half-faced
hasty-witted
hedge-born
hell-hated
idle-headed
ill-breeding
ill-nurtured
knotty-pated
milk-livered
motley-minded
onion-eyed
plume-plucked
pottle-deep
pox-marked
reeling-ripe
rough-hewn
rude-growing
rump-fed
shard-borne
sheep-biting
spur-galled
swag-bellied
tardy-gaited
tickle-brained
toad-spotted
unchin-snouted
weather-bitten
Column 3
noun
apple-john
baggage
barnacle
bladder
boar-pig
bugbear
bum-bailey
canker-blossom
clack-dish
clotpole
coxcomb
codpiece
death-token
dewberry
flap-dragon
flax-wench
flirt-gill
foot-licker
fustilarian
giglet
gudgeon
haggard
harpy
hedge-pig
horn-beast
hugger-mugger
joithead
lewdster
lout
maggot-pie
malt-worm
mammet
measle
minnow
miscreant
moldwarp
mumble-news
nut-hook
pigeon-egg
pignut
puttock
pumpion
ratsbane
scut
skainsmate
strumpet
varlet
vassal
whey-face
wagtail
Literary Terms
Name: ____________________________
ACT __________
find examples of the
following
Metaphor
comparison made by
calling one item another
item
Pun
A play on words wherein a
word is used to convey
two meanings at the same
time.
Allusion
an indirect reference to
another famous person,
literary work, even or
place.
Couplet
a style of poetry defined
as a complete thought
written in two lines with
rhyming ends
Oxymoron
a combination of
contradictory terms
Soliloquy
when a character talks to
him/herself aloud on
stage in order for the
audience to know what
he/she is thinking
Monologue
a long character speech to
himself, or narrating an
account to an audience or
character
Personification
animals, ideas or inorganic
objects are given human
characteristics
Scene
Line
Example (for very long examples write the first few lines… the last line)
Romeo and Juliet
Study Guide
ACT ONE -SCENE ONE
1, Between what two families does the feud exist? ______________ vs. _________________
2. What decree does the Prince make after the street brawl?
3. What advice does Benvolio give Romeo about Rosaline?
ACT ONE -SCENE TWO
1. How does Capulet respond to Paris' proposal to marry Juliet?
2. How do Romeo and Benvolio learn about the Capulet's ball? What do they decide to do?
ACT ONE -SCENE THREE
1. How does Juliet feel about getting married?
2. How old is Juliet? What is Lammastide? On what date does it come?
ACT ONE - SCENE FOUR
1. When and where does this scene take place?
2. Explain Romeo's speech (lines 106-113).
ACT ONE - SCENE FIVE
1. Where does this scene take place?
2. Who is Romeo talking about in lines 46-55? Explain the irony in these lines.
3. Why does Tybalt become so upset, and how does Capulet respond to his rage?
4. Who said the following lines and why?
A) "is she a Capulet? 0 dear account, my life is my foe’s debt."
B) "My only love sprung from my only hate Too early seen unknown and known
too late."
ACT TWO - SCENE ONE:
Explain the dramatic irony in this scene.
ACT TWO - SCENE TWO:
(This is the most famous scene in the entire play.)
1. Fill in the blanks in this paraphrase of Romeo's soliloquy (lines 1-32)
Shh! What _________ is at the ________? ________ shines through the window like the
_____ rises in the ______. Arise, beautiful sun (Juliet) and replace the _________ who is
jealous because you, her maid (Diana - Virgin moon goddess) are ________ than she.
Don't be a ________ since the moon is _________ of you. Her innocence is sickly, and
only a _______ would keep it. Oh! It's Juliet! I wish she knew that I ____________ her.
She speaks. but says ________. How strange. She speaks with her eyes. I'll
____________ her. No, I'd better not since she isn't _________________.
Two of the ______________ in heaven have asked her _______ to twinkle for them
while they take care of some __________. If her eyes were there, her ___________
would make the stars seem dull just as _________ outshines a lamp. Her eyes would
shine so ________________ that the _______ would think it were _______________
and begin to __________. O' I wish that I could touch her _____________.
She speaks. 0 speak again bright ________, for you are as glorious to this
____________, being over my __________ (up at the window) as is an angel of
______________ is to _______ who look up and see him when he walks on the
___________ and sails on the ________________.
2. Explain Juliet's soliloquy (lines 33-44)
3. How is this an example of dramatic irony?
4. Fill in the blanks in this paraphrase of Juliet's speech (lines 35-106)
You know it is ________ or you could see me __________ because you __________ me
talking about you. If I followed proper etiquette, I'd _______ I ever said it. But who cares
about etiquette! Do you ________ me? Don't say yes unless you really ________ it. If
you think that I am too ___________. 1'll play _______ ____ _____ so you can _______
my affections. The truth is I am foolishly in ______ with you, and you might not take me
___________. But _________ me, and I'll _________ myself to be more _______ than
those who know how to play hard to ________. I would have been more __________ I
must confess, but since you allude _________ me confess my __________ for you, there
is no ___________ to be.
5. After Romeo and Juliet vow their love for one another, what do they decide to do and when?
ACT TWO - SCENE THREE
This scene opens with Friar Laurence collecting herbs. He is discussing the properties of the
herbs and the purposes for which they may be used. This demonstrates Friar Laurence's
knowledge of herbs and foreshadows that this knowledge may serve some purpose in future
events in the drama.
The sky turns _________ as the _______ gives way to ________. Streaks of __________
speckle the Eastern ______ as the ______ rises in its normal course. Now, before the
______ rises fully and ______ the dew, I must fill this ____________ with _____ and
______. The earth is both the place of ______ and _______ for all of _________. We
find all kinds of ______ growing from the earth; Some are ______ and some ______, but
all are ____________. Plants and ______ and ______ have great ___________. There is
nothing on earth so _______ that it does not have some _______ qualities, and nothing
so ________ that it cannot be used for ________. Even goodness itself turns to vice
when __________, and _______ put to good use may appear worthy. Within this
_________ ______ lies _________ as well as ___________; for it has a very pleasing
_______, but if you _______ it, it will __________ you. It is the same with _______. He
is part ________ and part _______, and when the bad side of his nature is
______________ than the good, he'll sooner or later __________ himself.
2. Why does Romeo go to see Friar Laurence?
3. How does Friar Laurence respond to Romeo's request?
4. Why does Friar Laurence consent to Romeo's request?
ACT TWO - SCENE FOUR
This scene serves as a contrast to the preceding scene in Friar Laurence's cell. Mercutio and
Benvolio are in a merry mood as they walk along talking and laughing about Romeo whom they
think is still pining away over Rosaline. Benvolio mentions that Tybalt has sent a challenge to
Romeo. Mercutio then gives a long description of Tybalt's eagerness to fight. Romeo comes
along in a good mood after his talk with Friar Laurence. They engage in a series of puns
matching their wits against each other. Along comes Juliet's nurse and Peter (her servant).
1. For whom is the nurse looking and why?
2. What warning does she give Romeo?
ACT TWO - SCENE FIVE
Juliet is waiting very impatiently for the nurse's return. Why does she become so irritated when
the nurse does return?
ACT TWO - SCENE SIX
Romeo and Juliet are married in Friar Laurence's cell. How does this scene foreshadow future
events?
ACT THREE - SCENE ONE
(This scene marks the climax of the drama.)
1. Tybalt, still enraged at Romeo's intrusion at the Capulet's ball, is determined to fight, but
Romeo refuses. Why?
2. How does Mercutio get involved, and what happens to him?
3. How does Romeo react to this?
4. What decree does the Prince make?
5. Explain how this scene serves as the climax or turning point of the drama. (Think of all that
has happened between Romeo and Juliet so far.)
ACT THREE - SCENE TWO
1. Complete this paraphrase of Juliet's soliloquy (lines 1-31)
Hurry up, _______ and set so that night will come and _____________ can leap into my
________ Lovers don't need _____________ to make love. If __________ is blind it best
agrees with _____________. Come on, night, so I can learn to _________ the love game.
I'll _________ to Romeo, and we'll both lose our ______________. Cover my blushing
____________ until I grow __________ enough to act out my true __________. Come
night. Come _____________, and lie with me this night. Give me my ________ and
when he ___________ cut him up into little ___________, and he will light the
________ so fine that all the _________ will be on love with ____________ and not
______. Oh, I have taken the _______________ vow, yet I am still a virgin. it's like a
child who has new _______, but is not allowed to __________ them.
3. Explain the dramatic irony in the beginning of this scene.
4. How does Juliet react to the nurse's news?
5. What does Juliet plan to do with the cords? (See lines 132-137)
6. How does the nurse console her?
ACT THREE - SCENE THREE
1. How does Romeo react to the news of his banishment?
2. Complete this paraphrase of Friar Laurence's speech (lines 108-154).
Stop! - Are you a ______? You look like a man but you cry like a ___________ and act
like a ___________. I'm surprised at you! I thought you were a better man than that.
You already killed _____________. Will you now kill _____________ and by doing so kill
__________ who loves you? What are you _____________ about? You're alive aren't
you? ________ on you! You are a _________ to your manhood, trying to _________
yourself after vowing to love and _________ Juliet. Your ________ that should guide
your body and your love is ________ like a _______ soldier trying to load his _______
and kills himself instead of the enemy. What's wrong with you ________? __________ is
alive. There, you are lucky. ________ would have _______ you but instead you killed
him. There, you are lucky. The Prince could have ________ you to ______, but he only
_________ you. There, you are lucky. You have much to be ___________ for, but
instead of counting your _________, you sulk and ________ like a spoiled child. Stop
sulking, and go to your __________ and ____________ her. But don't __________ too
long, or you won't be able to get pass the __________ to go to _________ where you
can stay until I can tell your __________ about your ___________, reconcile them, and
get the _________ to _________ you so you can come back and live happily. Go,
__________ and tell ________ to go to bed early because ______ is coming.
ACT THREE - SCENE FOUR
1. How does the action in this scene complicate matters even further?
2. How does Capulet's attitude now differ from his attitude when Paris first came to ask for
Juliet's hand in marriage?
3. Explain the dramatic irony in this scene.
ACT THREE - SCENE FIVE
Day breaks, and the two lovers must part after consummating their wedding vows. Juliet is very
reluctant to have Romeo leave her and does not want to admit that it is morning. Finally Romeo
leaves and Juliet's mother comes to her chamber. Their conversation about Tybalt's death has
Juliet speaking in ambiguous terms.
1. Explain the paradoxical phrases in lines 94-103.
2. How does Capulet react to Juliet's refusal to marry Paris?
3. What advise does the nurse give Juliet?
4. What does Juliet decide to do?
ACT FOUR - SCENE ONE
Juliet is no longer the obedient child. With no hope of help from her mother or the nurse she is
now taking matters into her own hands. She gives the excuse that since she has displeased her
father, she is going to Friar Laurence to confess her sin and be absolved. (Notice how she deals
with Paris at the opening of this scene.) Once Paris is gone Juliet pleads with Friar Laurence to
help her out of her predicament.
Explain in detail the plan they arrange
ACT FOUR - SCENE TWO
1. What day is it now?
2. Juliet is so convincing in her deception that her father decides to move the wedding day up
from Thursday to Wednesday. What Complication does this change foreshadow?
ACT FOUR - SCENE THREE
1. Complete this paraphrase of Juliet's soliloquy (lines 14-58)
Farewell! God knows when we shall ________ again. Oh, I'm so ___________ that my
_________ runs cold. I'll call them back to ____________ me. Nurse! - But what can she
do? I must do this alone. Come vial. But what if the potion doesn't _________ and I have
to ___________ Paris after all? I'll use this ________ on myself first! What if the Friar
gave me ____________ to kill me so that no one will find out that he already
____________ me to Romeo? No, the Friar is proven to be a _________ man. He
would not do that. But what if I ________ ____ before ________ comes to take me
away? That's scary. Will I not ________ in the vault before ________ comes? Or if I
________, my imagination will run ________ in that horrible place where the bones of
my _____________ have been ________ for hundreds of years; where _________ yet
recently burned lies ___________ in his shroud; where __________ visit at some hours
of the _________. Oh! Wouldn't those horrible _________ and ______ drive a living
person __________? If I __________ will I not be so disturbed in the midst of these
hideous __________ that I play with my forefather's _________ or pull ___________
burial clothes off, and then in a fit of madness dash out my __________ with my
_________ _______?
Oh look! I think I see my cousin's (Tybalt's) _________ looking for __________ who cut
him up with his __________. Stay back, ____________ stay back! Romeo, I come! I
__________ this (potion) to you.
2. List Juliet's fears as she is about to drink the potion.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
ACT FOUR - SCENE FOUR
The Capulets are busy preparing for Juliet's wedding. The Nurse is told to wake Juliet up and get
her ready.
ACT FOUR - SCENE FIVE
The nurse discovers Juliet's apparently lifeless body, and the happy day for the Capulets
becomes a day of sorrow.
ACT FIVE - SCENE ONE
1. How does Romeo's dream, which he describes in his opening speech, compare with the
news brought to him by Balthasar?
2. How does Romeo convince the apothecary to sell him poison?
3. What does he plan to do with the poison?
ACT FIVE - SCENE TWO
1. Explain the conversation between Friar Laurence and Friar John.
2. What does Friar Laurence now plan to do?
ACT FIVE - SCENE THREE
1. Why does Paris come to Juliet's burial place?
2. What happens when Romeo and Paris meet?
3. Romeo enters the tomb and sees Juliet. He takes the poison, and no sooner does Romeo
die, than Friar Laurence comes along - but too late.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN JULIET WAKES UP?
4. Complete this paraphrase of Friar Laurence's speech.
(lines 229-269)
I will be _________, for I don't expect to ________ long. Romeo and Juliet are
___________ and __________. I ____________ them in ________, and that same day
was _____________ killed and _____________ banished. Juliet pined for her
bridegroom and not for _________. You (Capulet) while trying to make her _________
promised her to _______ and would have ________ her to marry him. Then she came to
me asking that I ___________ ___________ ___________ to prevent her second
marriage, or she would have __________ herself right there in my cell. So I gave her a
_________ ________ which was intended to make her ___________ _________.
Meanwhile, I wrote a letter to _________ telling him to come __________ to take
_________ from her borrowed grave when the potion __________ _____. But Friar
John, who was sent to _______ the ________, was detained and brought the letter back
to me. So I came alone at the time when Juliet was to __________ _____ to take her
from the vault and hide her in ______ ________ until I could send another ___________
to ___________. When I got here, just a few minutes before _________ should awaken,
I found both ________ and ___________ dead. Juliet woke up, and I tried to get her to
leave. I heard some __________ and was ___________ away, but Juliet would not
_______ _______ _____. It seems that she _________ __________. This is the whole
story, and Juliet's _________ also knew of the _____________. If this is all my
_________ let me be sacrificed to the full extent of the ______.
4. Describe the conclusion of the drama and explain how poetic Justice operates in the play.
5. What is Romeo and Juliet's tragic flaw? How does it lead to their destruction?
Group Projects:

Make a timeline of the events. Tape pieces of paper together and make it legible and
artistic. Show the key events throughout the play with significant quotes relating to each.

Character sketches of the main characters. Each main character has their own paper.
Write 3 adjectives for each, 1 quote that defines their character, 1 actor/picture to play
them, other pictures to show who they are, their personality traits, etc.

Literary devices. Use one sheet of paper for each device: Simile, metaphor, hyperbole,
alliteration, allusion, personification, imagery, pun, and oxymoron. Title the paper clearly.
Write a definition of the device, and give an example from the book. Decorate in a way that
shows the connection to the quote.
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50 question test. Include combination of T/F, Matching, short answer, multiple choice, and
short answer questions. Answer all. This must be typed with a separate answer key. All
group members are responsible for typing up a different section.

Find at least one example of each type of love (see below). Each type should be on a single
page with a definition, images, lines and characters as an example.
a. unrequited love
b. romantic love
c. parental love
d. friendship
e. love of family honor

Design a comic book or an illustrated children’s book that tells the story of Romeo and
Juliet. You may use the words of Shakespeare, or you may write and illustrate a more
modern version of the story.
Group Participation Critique
Write the names of your group members in the chart below and rate them on their level of
participation in your group. This averaged grade will determine the pts possible. This will
remain completely confidential. Rate yourself too.
Name of group
members
Score 0 – 5
0= did nothing
5 =did all that was
required on time and
cooperatively
Comments:
Romeo and Juliet Quotes
Identify the speaker and the occasion of the following lines: (Who said it & why?)
Quote
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life."
"What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee."
"But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart.
My will to her consent is but a part."
"Compare her face to some that I will show
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
"I'll look to like is looking liking move,
But no more deep will I endart mine eye
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly."
"If ever you disturb our streets again
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
"I fear too early for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin this fearful date
With this night's revels, and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile fortune of untimely death."
"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."
"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
"This by his voice must be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What, dares the slave
Come hither, covered in an antic face..."
"My only love sprung from my only hate
Too early seen unknown and known too late."
"Now old desires doth in his death-bed lie
And young affection gapes to be his heir"
"Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return"
Who said it?
Why? /Purpose
"What's in a name? That which is called rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
"Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face
Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
For that which thou has heard me speak tonight."
"Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here'.
Is Rosaline that thou didst love so dear
So soon forsaken?"
". . . but let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into a
fool's paradise ... it were a very gross kind of
behavior... for the gentlewoman is young and
therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it
were an il~ thing..."
"Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Doth much excuse the appertaining rage
to such a greeting -- villain am I none
Therefore farewell, I see thou knowest me not."
"Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat to scratch
A man to death!. ... Why the devil came you
Between us? 1 was hurt under your arm.
"... And for that offense
Immediately do we exile him hence
I have an interest in your hates procedings
My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding."
"Come civil night
Thou sober-suited matron all in black.
And learn me how to lose a winning match
Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods."
"0 serpent heart hid in a flowering face
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? ...
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound?"
"There is no world without Verona walls
But purgatory, torture, hell itself
Hence banished is banished from the world
And the world's exile is death.
"Hold thy desperate hand.
Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art;
Thy tears are womanish, thy wild act denote the
unreasonable fury of a beast."
"Madam, if you could find out but a man
To bear a poison, I would temper it;
That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,
Soon sleep in quiet. 0 how my heart abhors
To hear him named and cannot come to him,
To wreak the love I bore my cousin
Upon his body that hath slaughtered him!"
"Hang thee young baggage! disobedient wretch!
I tell thee what - get thee to the church a
Thursday Or never after look me in the face.
“I think you are happier in the second match
Font excels the first; or if it did not.
Your first is dead - or 'twere as good as were."
"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 ..."
"Thou art as glorious to this night....
as the winged messenger of heaven."
"The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry"
"But soft, what light through yonder window
breaks?
It is the East and Juliet is the sun."
"0 Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo
Deny thy father and refuse thy name
or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love
and I'll no longer be a Capulet."
"Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou her maid art far more fair than she."
"The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb
What is her burying place, that is her womb."
"I am no pilot, yet wert thou as far
as that vast shore washed with the farthest sea,
I Should adventure for such merchandise."
"this day's black fate on more days doth depend,
This but begins the woe others must end."
"It was the NIGHTINGALE and not the LARK
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear."
"Go ask his name - If he be married
My grave is like to be my wedding bed."
"0, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!"
“Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone.
'A bears him like a portly gentleman,
And to say truth, Verona brags of him
To be a virtuous and well governed youth."
"What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
No arm, nor face, nor any other part
belonging to a man. 0, be some other name!”
"But come, young waverer, come go with me.
In one respect I'll thy assistant be;
For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn your household's rancor to pure love."
"Help me into some house, Benvolio,
Or I shall faint. A plague of both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me. I have it,
And soundly too. Your houses!”
“Let Romeo hence in haste,
Else, when he is found, that hour is his last."
"Come cords, come Nurse, I'll to my wedding bed;
And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead."
"An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend;
An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets
For by my soul, I'll not acknowledge thee."
"Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone
Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.
Take thou this vial, being then in bed
And this distilling liquor drink thou off;
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humor;"
"0 woe! 0 woeful, woeful woeful day!
Most lamentable day, most woeful day!
That ever I did yet behold!"
"Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,
And her immortal part with angels lives.
I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault
And presently took post to tell it you.
0, pardon me for bringing these ill news.
"Come cordial and not poison, go with me
To Juliet's grave; for there I must use thee."
"This is that banished haughty Montague
That murd'red my love's cousin - with which grief
It is supposed the fair creature died And here is come to do some villanous shame
To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him."
"What's here? A cup closed in my true love's hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.
O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop
To help me after? I will kiss thy lips.
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them..."
"Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight!
Grief of my son's exile hath stopped he breath."
"I will be brief, for my short date of breath
Is not so long as is a tedious tale
... and if ought in this
miscarriage by my fault, let my old life
Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,
unto the rigor of severest law.”
"See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
and I, for winking at your discords too,
have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished."
" 0 brother Montague, give me thy hand
This is my daughter's jointure, for no more
Can I demand.”