Friday, May 16, 2008
♥ If love be rough with you, be rough with love...
Those that know me know that i'm obsessed with one of the world's most famous plays, Romeo+Juliet, so here are really awesome quotes for you to marinate into your head.
Romeo:
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.
Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Dost thou not laugh?
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(the movie version:)
MERCUTIO
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut
Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of...
love;
Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage:
This is she--
This is she--
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ROMEO
That's all folks!
Romeo:
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.
Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Dost thou not laugh?
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(the movie version:)
MERCUTIO
Why, may one ask?ROMEO
I dream'd a dream to-night.MERCUTIO
And so did I.ROMEO
Well, what was yours?MERCUTIO
That dreamers often lie.ROMEO
In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.MERCUTIO
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut
Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of...
love;
Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage:
This is she--
This is she--
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ROMEO
[To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest handJULIET
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,ROMEO
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?JULIET
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.ROMEO
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;JULIET
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.ROMEO
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.JULIET
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.ROMEO
Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!JULIET You kiss by the book.
Give me my sin again.
That's all folks!
6:00 AM
