Romeo and Juliet Phrases by

Phrase One

teacherjoe41 — 2025-07-25 16:55:32 UTC

Friar.
Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope,
Which craves as desperate an execution
As that is desperate which we would prevent.
If, rather than to marry County Paris
Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,
Then is it likely thou wilt undertake
A thing like death to chide away this shame,
That cop’st with death himself to scape from it;
And, if thou dar’st, I’ll give thee remedy.

Phrase Two

teacherjoe41 — 2025-07-25 16:56:52 UTC

Romeo.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.-
[Juliet appears above at a window.]
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,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.-
It is my lady; O, it is my love!

Phrase Three

teacherjoe41 — 2025-07-25 16:58:50 UTC

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 misadventur’d piteous overthrows
   Doth 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 naught 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.