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| "The quarrel is between our masters and us their men" Act 1 scene 1 line 20 | Gregory - He is a Capulet servant and is discussing the ancient grudge with montagues. It shows how loyal servants are during this on going fight. |
| "What drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee" Act 1 scene 1 line 71 | Tybalt - Benvolio asks Tybalt to help him keep the peace, but Tybalt answers (Quote here)Instead of stopping the fight, Benvolio has to join in and fight Tybalt. In other words Tybalt does not want to hear anything about peace he wants to fight. |
| "I do but keep the peace. "Put up thy sword Or manage it to part these men with me." Act 1 scene 1 Line 69 | Benvolio - The servants of the two house holds are fighting. Benvolio wants Tybalt to help him keep the peace. He wants to seperate the two groups of men with his sword. |
| "Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets [...] If ever you disturb our streets again ..." Act 1 scene 1 Line 98 | Prince - He warns both Old Capulet and Montague that every is sick and tired of the fighting and it stop or they will be executed. |
| "Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow.We would as willingly give cure as know." Act 1 scene 1 line 157 | Montague - Romeo's Dad is worried that he is depressed but they don't know why. He wants to help him but doesn't know how. |
| "In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman." Act 1 scene 1 Line 212 | Romeo - I talking to Benvolio and is saying the reason he is so depressed because he has a huge crush on Rosaline |
| "Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?" Act 1 Scene 1 line 225 | Benvolio - Romeo tells Benvolio that Rosaline does not like him and has decided to live a life untouched by men. |
| "Nurse, give leave awhile, We must talk in secret - Nurse, come back again" Act 1 scene 3 line 8 | Lady Capulet - Wants to tell Juliet that she is old enough to get married and wants to do it in private. She immediately changes her minds and asks the Nurse to come back and support her in her decision. |
| Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen, Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!--Were of an age" Act 1 Scene 3 line 19 | Nurse - She is telling Lady Capulet that her dead daughter Susan was the same age as Juliet, almost 14. |
| "It is an honor that I dream not of." Act 1 Scene 3 Line 71 | Juliet - When her mother, Lady Capulet, ask what she thinks about getting married, Juliet, a little shocked, replies she hasn't really thought about it. |
| "A man, young lady! Lady, such a man, As all the world--why, he's a man of wax." Act 1 Scene 3 Line 81 | Nurse - Lady Capulet is tells Juliet that Paris wants to marry her. The nurse adds that he is a really good looking guy. Like a wax model an artist might use. |
| "Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,And find delight writ there with beauty's pen; Act 1 Scene 3 Line 87 | Lady Capulet - Tell Juliet that her happiness will increase because his good looks will make her want to marry him and marrying him will make him more good looking. |
| "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" Act 1 Scene 3 Line 103 | Juliet - Lady Capulet wants to know if Juliet could love Paris. Juliet agrees to look him over and see if she could like him. But she is also doubtful make her fall in love with him. |
| "He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall. Call, good Mercutio" Act 2 Scene 1 Line 6 | Benvolio - Is talking to Mercutio telling him where Romeo has gone to. After leaving the Capulet feast Romeo jumps over the garden fence to go and find Juliet. |
| "He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not; The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes" Act 2 Scene 1 line 17 | Mercutio - He is saying that Romeo has died in love's game. |
| "That fair for which love groaned for, and would die, With tender Juliet [matched] is now not fair. Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,Alike bewitchèd by the charm of looks Act 2 prologue | Chorus - It tells that in Act 1 Romeo was so maddly in love with Rosaline that he thought he would die but as soon as he saw Juliet he forgot all about Rosaline and has fallen deeply in love with Juliet. As if he were under some kind of spell |
| "He jests at scars that never felt a wound" Act 2 Scene 2 line 1 | Romeo - He is sickenned by the thought of not being together |
| "But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" Act 2 Scene 2 Line 2 | Romeo - He see Juliet come to the window and compares how seeing her brightens everything |
| "O, be some other name!What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet; [...] Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee, Take all myself. Act 2 Scene 2 Line 45- 52 | Juliet - She wants to know why he lover had to be a Montague. She says names are important that she would love him just as much and asks him not be a Montague any longer. |
| "I take thee at thy word. Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. Act 2 Scene 2 Line 53 | Romeo - Romeo is willing to change his name just as long as she loves him. |
| "I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;And but thou love me, let them find me here:My life were better ended by their hate,Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love." Act 2 Scene 2 Line 80 | Romeo - It is dark and he is hidden from Juliet's family but he'd much rather have her love and die on the spot, than not have her love and live a long time. |
| "Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say "Ay,",And I will take thy word; yet if thou swear'st,Thou mayst prove false" Act 2 Scene 2 Line 95 | Juliet - Ask if Romeo loves her. she knows right away that he will say "yes" and she will believe him even though sometimes guys say they love someone when they don't |
| "O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,That monthly changes in her circled orb,Lest that thy love prove likewise variable." Act 2 Scene 2 Line 114 | Juliet - romeo swears that he loves her by the moon. But Juliet says don't swear on the moon. She is araid Romeo will change his mind like the moon changes. |
| "It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden [...] Sweet, good night!,This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet." Act 2 Scene 2 Line 125 | Juliet - Says things are happenning way to fast but she hopes that their love will continue to bloom like a flower and become more beautiful with time |
| "O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?" Act 2 Scene 2 Line 132 | Romeo - Doesn't want Juliet to leave. He can't get enough of her. |
| "If that thy bent of love be honourable,Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow" Act 2 Scene 2 Line 151 | Juliet - If you really love me send your marriage proposal tommorrow |
| "Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet,Hath sent a letter to his father's house." Act 2 Scene 4 Line 7 | Benvolio - He says that Tybalt has written a letter challenging Romeo to fight. |
| "Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead;stabbed with a white wench's black eye;" | Mercutio - Jokes that Romeo has been killed by Rosalines love |
| "Bid her devise,Some means to come to shrift this afternoon;And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell,Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains." Act 2 Scene 4 Line 183 | Romeo - tell the nurse to have Juliet come up with a plan to meet him at Church for confession and then they will be married. |
| "like an honest gentleman, / And a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome,[...]Where is your mother?" Act 2 Scene 2 Line 59 | Nurse - Juliet wants to know if Romeo has sent the proposal and Nurse is teasing her by starting to tell her and then asking where her mother is. |
| "Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell;There stays a husband to make you a wife:" | Nurse - Tells Juliet Romeo is at the church waiting to marry her. |
| "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 - He is telling Friar Laurence to marry them. That death later on doesn't matter as long as he can call Juliet his. This foreshadows death yet to come |
| "These violent delights have violent ends" | Friar Laurence - He is saying when people go about things like getting married the wrong way then things tend to turn out badly or in this case deadly. |
| "For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone / Till holy church incorporate two in one" Act 2 Scene 5 Line 37 | Frair Laurence - Tells Romeo and Juliet who are busying kissing, that until they are married hie is not going to leave them alone. |
