Romeo and Juliet / Ромео и Джульетта

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Romeo

[To Juliet]

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 have hands 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

O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do:

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

Juliet

Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.

Romeo

Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purg’d.

[Kissing her.]

Juliet

Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

Romeo

Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg’d!

Give me my sin again.

Juliet

You kiss by the book.

Nurse

Madam, your mother craves a word with you.

Romeo

What is her mother?

Nurse

Marry, bachelor,

Her mother is the lady of the house,

And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous.

I nurs’d her daughter that you talk’d withal.

I tell you, he that can lay hold of her

Shall have the chinks.

Romeo

Is she a Capulet?

O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt.

Benvolio

Away, be gone; the sport is at the best.

Romeo

Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest.

Capulet

Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone,

We have a trifling foolish banquet towards.

Is it e’en so? Why then, I thank you all;

I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night.

More torches here! Come on then, let’s to bed.

Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late,

I’ll to my rest.

[Exeunt all but Juliet and Nurse.]

Juliet

Come hither, Nurse.

Nurse

The son and heir of old Tiberio.

Juliet

What’s he that now is going out of door?

Nurse

Marry, that I think be young Petruchio.

Juliet

What’s he that follows here, that would not dance?

Nurse

I know not.

Juliet

Go ask his name. If he be married,

My grave is like to be my wedding bed.

Nurse

His name is Romeo, and a Montague,

The only son of your great enemy.