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Romeo and Juliet
[Prologue, 1] |
Chorus |
1 |
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.
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Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1] |
Sampson |
26 |
A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will
take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.
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3 |
Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1] |
Sampson |
39 |
Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;
take it in what sense thou wilt.
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4 |
Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1] |
Gregory |
41 |
They must take it in sense that feel it.
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5 |
Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1] |
Sampson |
51 |
Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.
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6 |
Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1] |
Gregory |
52 |
I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as
they list.
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7 |
Romeo and Juliet
[I, 2] |
Benvolio |
319 |
Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish:
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.
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Romeo and Juliet
[I, 4] |
Mercutio |
541 |
I mean, sir, in delay
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits
Five times in that ere once in our five wits.
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Romeo and Juliet
[I, 5] |
First Servant |
619 |
Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away? He
shift a trencher? he scrape a trencher!
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10 |
Romeo and Juliet
[I, 5] |
Second Servant |
631 |
We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; be
brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.
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11 |
Romeo and Juliet
[I, 5] |
Capulet |
688 |
Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone;
He bears him like a portly gentleman;
And, to say truth, Verona brags of him
To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:
I would not for the wealth of all the town
Here in my house do him disparagement:
Therefore be patient, take no note of him:
It is my will, the which if thou respect,
Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,
And ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.
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12 |
Romeo and Juliet
[I, 5] |
Romeo |
732 |
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
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13 |
Romeo and Juliet
[II, 2] |
Juliet |
885 |
'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. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
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14 |
Romeo and Juliet
[II, 2] |
Romeo |
897 |
I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
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Romeo and Juliet
[II, 2] |
Juliet |
934 |
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
Then say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:
Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,
I'll frown and be perverse an 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 'havior light:
But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true
Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
I should have been more strange, I must confess,
But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,
My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,
And not impute this yielding to light love,
Which the dark night hath so discovered.
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Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4] |
Nurse |
1306 |
An a' speak any thing against me, I'll take him
down, an a' were lustier than he is, and twenty such
Jacks; and if I cannot, I'll find those that shall.
Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills; I am
none of his skains-mates. And thou must stand by
too, and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure?
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Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4] |
Nurse |
1331 |
I will tell her, sir, that you do protest; which, as
I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.
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18 |
Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4] |
Nurse |
1372 |
Peter, take my fan, and go before and apace.
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19 |
Romeo and Juliet
[III, 1] |
Mercutio |
1541 |
Could you not take some occasion without giving?
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Romeo and Juliet
[III, 1] |
Romeo |
1630 |
Alive, in triumph! and Mercutio slain!
Away to heaven, respective lenity,
And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!
[Re-enter TYBALT]
Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again,
That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul
Is but a little way above our heads,
Staying for thine to keep him company:
Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.
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