Romeo y julieta

ANCHOR WOMAN
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 crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows doth with
their death, Bury their parents strife. The fearful
passage oftheir death marked love, And the
continuance of their parents rage, Which but their
children's end not could remove, Is now the two hours
traffic of our stage.

LADY CAPULET
J U L I E T ! ! ! ! Juliet! Juliet! Juliet! Nurse.
Nurse, where's my daughter? call her forth to me.

NURSE
I bade her come. God forbid! Juliet! Juliet! Juliet!JULIET
Madam, I am here. What is your will?

LADY CAPULET
Nurse, give leave awhile, We must talk in secret.
Nurse, come back again; I have remember'd me, thou's
hear our counsel. Nurse, Thou know'st my daughter's
of a pretty age.

NURSE
Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed.

LADY CAPULET
Bymy count, I was your mother much upon these years,
You are now a maid. Thus then in brief: The valiant
Paris seeks you for his love.

NURSE
A man, young lady! Lady, such a man As all the world-
-why, he's a man of wax.

LADY CAPULET
Verona's summer hath not such a flower.

NURSE
Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a veryflower.



LADY CAPULET
This night you shall behold him at our feast; Read
o'er the volume of young Paris' face, And find
delight writ there with beauty's pen; This precious
book of love, this unbound lover, To beautify him,
only lacks a cover: So shall you share all that he
doth possess, By having him, making yourself no less.

NURSE
Nay,bigger; women grow by men.

LADY CAPULET
Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?

JULIET
I'll look to like, if looking liking move: But no
more deep will I endart mine eye Than your consent to
give strength to make it fly.




ROMEO
Did my heart love till now? forswear it,sight! For I
ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

ROMEO
If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy
shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing
pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with
a tender kiss.

JULIET
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which
mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints havehands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm
is holy palmers' kiss.

ROMEO
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO
Well, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIETSaints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus
from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.

JULIET
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

ROMEO
Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me
my sin again.

JULIET
Youkiss by the book.

NURSE
Madam, your mother craves a word with you. Come lets
away.

ROMEO
Is she a Capulet?


NURSE
His name is Romeo, and he's a Montague; The only son
of your great enemy.

JULIET
My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen
unknown, and known too late! Prodigious...