Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet , Act I Scene 1 BENVOLIO Good morrow , cousin. 1.1.163 good morning ROMEO Is the day so young? 1.1.164 BENVOLIO 1.1.165 But new struck nine. ROMEO Ay me, sad hours seem long. Was that my father that went hence so fast? BENVOLIO just now 1.1.166 away 1.1.168 It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? ROMEO 1.1.169 Not having that, which having, makes them short. BENVOLIO 1.1.170 In love? ROMEO 1.1.171 Out— BENVOLIO 1.1.172 Of love? ROMEO 1.1.173 Out of her favor where I am in love. BENVOLIO Alas, that Love, so gentle in his view , Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof ! ROMEO Alas, that Love, whose view is muffled still , Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will ! 1.1.174 too bad Cupid who looks gentle is actually rough 1.1.176 blindfolded, always purposes Where shall we dine? [sees signs of the fight] O me! What fray was here? Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. it's all about 1.1.180 Why, then, O brawling love, O loving hate, 1 O anything of nothing first create ! 2 created : created of nothing O heavy lightness, serious vanity , foolishness 4 Misshapen chaos of wellseeming forms, attractive Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet , Act I Scene 1 Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, 1.1.185 Still waking sleep that is not what it is! always This love feel I, that feel no love in this . I love one who does not love me Dost thou not laugh? BENVOLIO No coz , I rather weep. ROMEO Good heart , at what? cousin 1.1.189 1.1.190 friend BENVOLIO At thy good heart's oppression. 1.1.191 ROMEO 1.1.192 Why, such is love's transgression . love's ways Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast , heart Which thou wilt propagate to have it pressed will increase, added With more of thine. This love that thou hast shown 1.1.195 Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. 2 Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purged , a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; 2 2 Being vexed , a sea nourished with loving tears; 1 raised love being exchanged 1 1 love being denied , raging , lovers' What is it else? A madness most discreet, 1.1.200 A choking gall and a preserving sweet . bitter potion, healing sweetness Farewell, my coz. BENVOLIO Soft , I will go along. wait 1.1.203 And if you leave me so, you do me wrong! ROMEO Tut , I have lost myself; I am not here. 1.1.205 nonsense This is not Romeo; he's some other where. BENVOLIO Tell me in sadness , who is that you love? ROMEO 1.1.207 seriously 1.1.208 What, shall I groan and tell thee? BENVOLIO Groan? Why no, 1.1.209 But sadly tell me who. ROMEO 1 [ Bid ]1 a sick man in "sadness" make his will? 1.1.210 2 ask, makes Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet , Act I Scene 1 A word illurged to one that is so ill! poorly chosen word In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman. BENVOLIO 1.1.213 I aimed so near when I supposed you loved. ROMEO A right good markman ! And she's fair I love. BENVOLIO A right fair mark , fair coz, is soonest hit. ROMEO 1.1.214 marksman, beautiful 1.1.215 target in plain sight 1.1.216 Well in that hit you miss! She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit , wisdom of Diana: god of virginity And in strong proof of chastity well armed, armor, virginity 2 From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed . She will not stay the siege of loving terms , 1 Cupid's, unaffected /unharmed won't be won by sweet talk Nor bide th'encounter of assailing eyes , loving looks 1.1.221 Nor ope her lap to saintseducing gold . open (bawdy), riches O, she is rich in beauty, only poor That, when she dies, with beauty dies her store . BENVOLIO Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste ? ROMEO 4 She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste, For beauty, starved with her severity , Cuts beauty off from all posterity . 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 because it dies with her 1.1.225 always stay a virgin 1.1.226 withholding sever choice future generations beautiful, just win a place in heaven sworn not to love Do I live dead, that live to tell it now. BENVOLIO Be ruled by me ; forget to think of her. ROMEO O, teach me how I should forget to think! 1.1.233 listen to me 1.1.234 Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet , Act I Scene 1 BENVOLIO 1.1.235 By giving liberty unto thine eyes. Examine other beauties! ROMEO 'Tis the way To call hers, exquisite, in question more. These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows , Being black, puts us in mind they hide the fair. 1.1.237 make me dwell on her beauty lucky veils, faces makes us think He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. 1.1.242 Show me a mistress that is passing fair ; very beautiful What doth her beauty serve but as a note reminder Where I may read who passed that passing fair? Rosaline who surpassed Farewell. Thou canst not teach me to forget. BENVOLIO I'll pay that doctrine , or else die in debt . [They exit] 1.1.247 teach you that lesson, failure
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