Acts 1, 2, & 3 Required Quotes
~ Complete Task one on this sheet and Tasks 2-3 on a sheet of notebook paper.
1) As we read, fill in the speaker behind each line.
2) Explain the connection between at least 3 quotes (1 per Act) and their provided themes.
3) For 6 different quotes (2 per Act), explain why each is an example of the provided literary technique. Don’t
just give the definition of the literary technique, but apply it to the chosen example. (Connect the text with
the definition. Example: “Juliet is like the ocean” is a simile because Juliet is being compared to the ocean
using the word ‘like.’)
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Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life…Doth with their
death bury their parents’ strife. ~ Prologue
Foreshadowing [Fate]
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The quarrel is between our masters and us their men. ~ 1.1
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I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, or manage it to part these men with me. ~ 1.1
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Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,…If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives pay the
forfeit of the peace. ~ 1.1
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What fray was here?...Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love. Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!...O heavy lightness!
Serious vanity!... Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health.” ~ 1.1
Oxymoron [Love vs Hate]
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She’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrow. ~ 1.1
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My child is yet a stranger in the world, She hath not seen the change of fourteen years…This night I hold [a] feast. ~ 1.2
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Younger than she are happy mothers made. ~ 1. 2
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Man, one fire burns out another’s burning. One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish. ~ 1.2
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If you be not of the house of Montague, I pray come and crush a cup of wine. ~ 1.2
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Compare her face to some that I will show, and I will make thee think thy swan a crow. ~ 1.2
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I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown, But to rejoice in splendor of mine own. ~ 1.2
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Come Lammas Eve at night she shall be fourteen. ~ 1.3
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Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your disposition to be married?...Can you like of Paris’ love? ~1.3
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I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye Than your consent gives strength to make it fly. ~ 1.3
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Go, girl, seek happy night to happy days. ~ 1.3
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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boist’rous, and it pricks like thorn. ~ 1.4
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If love be rough with you, be rough with love. ~ 1.4
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O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you! ~ 1. 4
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My mind misgives some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, …some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he that hath the steerage of my
course Direct my sail! ~ 1.4
Foreshadowing [Fate]
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O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright. It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too
rich for use, for earth too dear. ~ 1.5
Soliloquy, Allusion [Love vs Infatuation]
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Did my heart love till now?...For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. ~ 1.5
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It fits when such a villain is a guest. I’ll not endure him. ~ 1.5 [Hatred and Vengeance]
Dramatic Irony
Heroic Couplet
Personification
Allusion
Hyperbole
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Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? (R) Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. (J) O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands
do! (R) You kiss by the book. (J) ~ 1.5 Pun (because dance is called Pilgrims and Saints)
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Is she a Capulet? O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt. ~ 1.5
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If he be married, My grave is like to be my wedding bed. ~ 1.5
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His name is Romeo, and a Montague, The only son of your great enemy. ~ 1.5
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My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! ~ 1. 5
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Can I go forward when my heart is here? 2.1
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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. 2.1 Personification [Love vs Infatuation]
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He jests at scars that never felt a wound. 2.2
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But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon... 2.2
Dramatic Irony, Foreshadowing
Paradox
Hyperbole
Metaphor, Soliloquy
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Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! 2.2 Soliloquy
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’Tis but thy name that is my enemy…That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. 2.2
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My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself…2.2
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Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague? 2.2
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Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike. 2.2
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Stony limits cannot hold love out, and what love can do, that dares love attempt. 2.2 Personification [Love conquers all]
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Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say ‘Ay’ 2.2
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Swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon…2.2
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If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow. 2.2
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Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from love, towards school with heavy looks. 2.2 Simile
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I would have thee gone – and yet no farther than a wanton’s bird that…with a silk thread plucks it back again…2.2 metaphor
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Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. 2.2 Oxymoron
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The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb, what is her burying grave, that is her womb. 2.3 pun, soliloquy
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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, and vice sometimes by action dignified…Within…this small flower poison hath residence, and
medicine power…Two such opposed kings encamp them still in man as well as herbs – grace and rude will. 2.3 soliloquy, paradox
[Virtue vs Vice]
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I have forgot that name, and that name’s woe. 2.3
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I have been feasting with mine enemy, where on a sudden one hath wounded me that’s by me wounded. 2.3
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My heart’s dear love is set on the fair daughter of rich Capulet…thou must combine by holy marriage. 2.3
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Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. 2.3 [Love vs Infatuation]
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She whom I love now doth grace for grace and love for love allow. 2.3
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For this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancor to pure love…Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. 2.3
foreshadowing [Love vs Hate]
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Tybalt…hath sent a letter to his father’s house. 2.4
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A sail, a sail! Two, two! A shirt and a smock. 2.4 Comic relief
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There she shall at Friar Laurence’ cell be…married. 2.4
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Hence to Friar Laurence’ cell; there stays a husband to make you a wife. 2.5
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These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume…therefore love
moderately.” ~ 2.6 simile, foreshadowing
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The Capulets abroad, and if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl. 3.1
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Here comes my man…Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain. 3.1
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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 knowst me not. 3.1
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I do protest I never injured thee, but love thee better than thou canst devise…3.1 Dramatic irony
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Calm, dishonorable, vile submission! 3.1 (Honor)
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I am hurt…Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. 3.1 Pun
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Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm. 3.1
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A plague o’ both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me. 3.1 (Fate)
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This but begins the woe others must end. 3.1
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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. 3.1
(Revenge, Violence Begets Violence, Haste)
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O, I am fortune’s fool! 3.1 (Fate)
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Where are the vile beginners of this fray? 3.1
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His fault concludes but what the law should end, the life of Tybalt. 3.1 (Justice)
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I will be deaf to pleading and excuses…Let Romeo hence in haste, else when he is found, that hour is his last. 3.1
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Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ‘Ay,’ and that bare vowel ‘I’ shall poison more than the death-darting eye of a cockatrice. 3.2 Pun
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Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished; Romeo that killed him, he is banished. 3.2
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Serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! 3. 2 Paradox followed by
oxymorons
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Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? 3.2
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My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain; And Tybalt’s dead, that would have slain my husband. 3.2
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Give this ring to my true knight and bid him come to take his last farewell. 3.2
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Thou art wedded to calamity. 3.3
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Banishment? Be merciful, say ‘death’…3.3
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There is no world outside Verona walls…3.3 Hyperbole
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Deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!…This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not. 3.3 (Pride)
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I see that madmen have no ears. 3.3 Hyperbole and Metaphor
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Stand, an you be a man. For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand! 3.3
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What says my concealed lady to our canceled love? 3.3
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Hold thy desperate hand. Art thou a man?…Thy Juliet is alive, for whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead. There art thou happy.
Tybalt would kill thee, but thou slewest Tybalt. There art thou happy. The law, that threatened death, becomes thy friend and turns it to
exile. There art thou happy. 3.3 (Despair vs Hope)
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These times of woe afford no time to woo. 3.4
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Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender of my child’s love. 3.4 (Pride, Haste)
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I must be gone and live, or stay and die. 3.5
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I have more care to stay than will to go. Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so. 3.5 Foreshadowing
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Then, window, let day in, and let life out. 3.5
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God, I have an ill-divining soul! Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. 3.5 Foreshadowing
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Some grief shows much of love; but much of grief shows still some want of wit. 3.5
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Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn the gallant, young, and noble gentleman, the County Paris. 3.5
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He shall not make me there a joyful bride! 3.5 Dramatic Irony
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I would the fool were married to her grave! 3.5 Foreshadowing
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An you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend; An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets…3.5 (Anger, Pride)
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If you do not, make the bridal bed in that dim monument where Tybalt lies. 3.5 Foreshadowing
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I think you are happy in this second match, for it excels your first; or if it did not, your first is dead. 3.5
Acts 4 & 5 Required Quotes
~ Complete Task one on this sheet and Tasks 2-4 on a sheet of notebook paper.
1) As we read, fill in the speaker behind each line.
2) Pick two different quotes (1 per Act) that show evidence of character development (for better or worse) and
explain why.
2) Pick two different quotes (1 per Act) and explain what theme is evident and why.
3) For 4 different quotes (2 per Act), explain what literary technique is being used and why it is an example of
that technique. Don’t just give the definition of the literary technique, but apply it to the chosen example.
(Connect the text with the definition. Example: “Juliet is like the ocean” is a simile because Juliet is being
compared to the ocean using the word ‘like.’)
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On Thursday, sir? The time is very short. 4.1
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In his wisdom [he] hastes our marriage to stop the inundation of her tears. 4.1
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Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye. 4.1
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If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, do thou but call my resolution wise and with this knife I’ll help it presently. 4.1
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Be not so long to speak. I long to die if what thou speakst not of remedy. 4.1 [_________]
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Hold, daughter, I do spy a kind of hope…4.1
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O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris…4.1
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Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou off. 4.1
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In this borrowed likeness of shrunk death thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours, and then awake as from a pleasant sleep. 4.1
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That very night shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua. 4.1
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I’ll send a friar with speed to Mantua, with my letters to thy lord. 4.1
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Love, give me strength, and strength shall help afford. 4.1
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My heart is wondrous light, since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed. 4.2
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Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again…4.3
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What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then tomorrow morning? No, no! This shall forbid it. (places dagger by bed) 4.3
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Romeo, I come! This do I drink to thee. 4.3
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O me, O me! My child, my only life! 4.5 _______________
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Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower. 4.5 ________________
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In all her best array bear her to church. 4.5
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All things that we ordained festival turn from their office to black funeral. 4.5 ___________________
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I dreamt my lady came and found me dead. 5.1
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How fares my Juliet?...For nothing can be ill if she be well. 5.1
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Then she is well, and nothing can be ill. Her body sleeps in Capels’ monument. 5.1
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Then I defy you, stars! 5.1
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Hast thou no letters to me from the friar? 5.1
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Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. 5.1
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Let me have a dram of poison. 5.1
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Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua’s law is death to any he that utters them. 5.1
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The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s law. 5.1
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My poverty but not my will consents. 5.1 [___________________]
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I pay thy poverty and not thy will. 5.1
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If you had the strength of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight. 5.1
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Come, cordial and not poison, go with me to Juliet’s grave; for there must I use thee. 5.1
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Unhappy fortune!...The neglecting it may do much danger. 5.2
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I will write again to Mantua, and keep her at my cell till Romeo come. 5.2
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Live, and be prosperous. 5.3
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I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, and in despite I’ll cram thee with more food. 5.3
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Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile Montague!...for thou must die. 5.3
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I must indeed; and therefore came I hither…tempt not a desp’rate man…I love thee better than myself. For I come hither armed against
myself. 5.3
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Death…hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquered…Death’s pale flag is not advanced there. 5.3
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Death is amorous, and that the lean abhorred monster keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour. 5.3
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O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. 5.3
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Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead; and Paris too. 5.3
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Drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after? 5.3
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Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die. 5.3
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My wife is dead tonight! Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath. 5.3
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See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! 5.3 _________[_____, _________, ______]
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And I, for winking at your discords too, have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished. 5.3
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For I will raise her statue in pure gold. 5.3 [______________]
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As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie. 5.3
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Have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardoned, and some punished; For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and
her Romeo. 5.3
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