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Romeo & Juliet Act Two Study Guide
Scene 1
Characters
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Scene 2
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“What is in a name? That which we call a rose/By
any other name would smell so sweet.”
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“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet
sorrow/That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
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“But soft, what light through yonder window
breaks?/It is the east and Juliet is the sun.”
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“O Romeo, Romeo, whereforeart thou, Romeo?”
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“Oh swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, /
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”
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“O 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.
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy”
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Scene 3
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“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
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“For this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your
household’s rancor to pure love.”
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“Within the infant rind of this small flower,/Poison
hath residence and medicine power.”
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“The gray eyed morn smiles on the frowning night.”
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“The day to cheer and night’s dank dew to dry.”
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“Within the infant rind of this small flower, Poison
hath residence and medicine power.”
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“For this alliance may so happy prove,/ To turn your
household’s rancor to pure love.”
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“The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,
And fleckled darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels.
Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,
I must up-fill this osier cage of ours
With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;
What is her burying grave that is her womb,
And from her womb children of divers kind
We sucking on her natural bosom find:
Many for many virtues excellent,
None but for some and yet all different.
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,
Nor aught so good but, strain'd from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;
And vice sometimes by action dignified.
Within the infant rind of this weak flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power:
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
Two such opposed kings encamp them still
In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;
And where the worser is predominant,
Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.”
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Scene 4
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“Sure wit, follow me this jest now till thou/Hast worn
out thy pump, that when the single sole of/It is worn,
the jest may remain, after the wearing/ Solely
singular.”
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“Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!
Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,
So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine
Hath washed thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!
How much salt water thrown away in waste
To season love, that of it doth not taste!
The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,
Thy old groans yet ringing in mine ancient ears.
Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit
Of an old tear that is not washed off yet.
If e’er thou wast thyself and these woes tin,
Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline.
And art thou changed? Pronounce this sentence
Then: Women may fall, when there’s no strength in
men.”
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Scene 5
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Scene 6
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