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24 Cards in this Set
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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, Who is already sick and pale with griefThat thou her maid art far more fair than she.’ |
Romeo to Romeo | Juliet is prettier than the moon, Her beauty overpowers everything else |
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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.’ |
Juliet to herself | 'Romeo, why are you a Montague?'. Their love is impossible because of their family names and she asks him to change his allegiance, or else she will change hers. |
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‘That which me call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title |
Juliet to herself | Names don't mean anything, Romeo would be perfect as anything or anyone else |
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How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,And the place death, considering who thou art,If any of my kinsmen find thee here |
Juliet to Romeo | It was hard to get here. If any of my relatives find you here they’ll kill you because of who you are. |
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‘With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls.For stony limits cannot hold love out,And what love can do, that dares love attempt.Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.’ |
Romeo to Juliet | Love brought him to Juliet and nothing will stop him, his cousins mean nothing |
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‘If that thy bent of love be honourable,Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow,By one that I’ll procure to come to thee,Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite,And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll layAnd follow thee my lord throughout the world.’ |
Juliet to Romeo | If you want to marry me, tell me tomorrow I'll have someone to come give you a message and we will perform the ceremony, you'll become my husband my lord. |
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‘Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.’ |
Romeo to Juliet | Love is a powerful force, and lovers will get together. But being heartbroken will make a person sad. |
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‘Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,And vice sometime’s by action dignified.Within the infant rind of this weak flowerPoison hath residence, and medicine power.’ |
Friar Lawrence to himself | if you do something good but for the wrong reason then it will become something bad, but if you do something bad but for the right reasons then it could be turned into goodness. |
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‘With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No.I have forgot that name and that name’s woe.’ |
Romeo to Friar | Romeo has forgotten about Rosaline |
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‘Then plainly know my heart’s dear love is setOn the fair daughter of rich Capulet.As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine,And all combined, save what thou must combineBy holy marriage.’ |
Romeo to Friar | I love Juliet and she loves me, we need you to marry us. |
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‘Jesu Maria! What a deal of brineHath washed thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!How much salt water thrown away in wasteTo season love, that of it doth not taste!The sun not yet in they sighs from heaven clears.Thy old groans yet ring in mine ancient ears.’ |
Friar to Romeo | You had just loved rosaline, the tears and feelings have gone away so fast. I remember it was just yesterday |
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‘O she knew wellThy love did read by rote and could not spell.But come, young waverer, come, go with me,In one respect I’ll thy assistant be.For this alliance may so happy proveTo turn your household’s rancour to pure love.’ |
Friar to Romeo | This marriage may end the feud between your two families |
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O, let us hence! I stand on sudden haste.’ |
Romeo to Friar | Let’s get out of here. I’m in a rush. |
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‘Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.’ |
Friar to Romeo | Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall. |
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‘Why, is not this better now than groaning for love? Now art thou sociable. Now art thou Romeo. Now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature. For this drivelling love is like a great natural that runs lolling up and down to hide this bauble in a hole.’ |
Mercutio to Romeo | Romeo is basically back to "Normal" |
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‘A gentleman, Nurse, that loves to hear himself talk and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.’ |
Romeo to Nurse (Mercutio) | He means that he is a man that likes the sound of his own voice, and talks more |
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‘Bid her deviseSome means to come to shrift this afternoon,And there she shall at Friar Laurence’ cellBe shrived and married.’ |
Romeo to Nurse | Tell Juliet to meet me at Friar Lawrences where we will get married |
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‘Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence’ cell.There stays a husband to make you a wife.’ |
Nurse to Juliet | Romeo Will marry you at Friar Lawrences Cell |
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‘So smile the heavens upon this holy actThat after-hours with sorrow chide us not!’ |
Friar to Romeo | Romeo and Juliet's marriage to be “holy,” both as a marriage and as an act of reconciliation. |
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‘Amen, amen! But come what sorrow can,It cannot countervail the exchange of joyThat one short minute gives me in her sight.Do thou but close our hands with holy words,Then love-devouring death do what he dare –It is enough I may but call her mine.’ |
Romeo to Friar | Juliet is worth more than all the sorrow in the world. He also says that as long as she is his, he doesn't even fear death. |
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‘This violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousnessAnd in the taste confounds the appetite.Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.’ |
Friar to Romeo | Friar hopes that in the future, they wont be punished with sadness and warns romeo about his haste in love. To act in moderation so the relationship lasts long. |
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‘Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joyBe heaped like mine, and that thy skill be moreTo blazon it, then sweeten with thy breathThis neighbour air, and let rich music’s tongueUnfold the imagined happiness that bothReceive in either by this dear encounter.’ |
Romeo to Juliet | Ah, Juliet if you’re as happy as I am, and you’re better with words, tell me about the happiness you imagine we’ll have in our marriage. |
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‘Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,Brags of his substance, not of ornament.They are but beggars than can count their worth>But my true love is grown to such excessI cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.’ |
Juliet to Romeo | I can imagine more than I can say—I have more on my mind than words. Anyone who can count how much he has is poor. My true love has made me so rich that I can’t count even half of my wealth. |
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‘Come, come with me, and we shall make short work.For, by your leaves, you shall not stay aloneTill Holy Church incorporate two in one.’ |
Friar to Romeo and Juliet | Come and we will get you married quickly |
