No Fear Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
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Act 4, Scene 1, Page 2
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PARIS
That “may be” must be, love, on Thursday
next.
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PARIS
That “may be” must be, love, on
Thursday.
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JULIET
What must be shall be.
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JULIET
What must be will be.
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FRIAR LAWRENCE
That’s a certain text.
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FRIAR LAWRENCE
That is a certain truth.
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PARIS
Come you to make confession to this Father?
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PARIS
Have you come to make confession to this father?
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JULIET
To answer that, I should confess to you.
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JULIET
If I answered that question, I’d be making confession to
you.
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PARIS
Do not deny to him that you love me.
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PARIS
Don’t deny to him that you love me.
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JULIET
I will confess to you that I love him.
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JULIET
I’ll confess to you that I love him.
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PARIS
So will ye, I am sure, that you love me.
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PARIS
You will also confess, I’m sure, that you love me.
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JULIET
If I do so, it will be of more price
Being spoke behind your back than to your face.
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JULIET
If I do so, it will mean more if I say it behind your back than if
I say it to your face.
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PARIS
Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears.
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PARIS
You poor soul, your face has suffered many tears.
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JULIET
The tears have got small victory by that,
For it was bad enough before their spite.
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JULIET
The tears haven’t done much because my face looked bad
enough before I started to cry.
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PARIS
Thou wrong’st it more than tears with that report.
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PARIS
You’re treating your face even worse by saying
that.
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JULIET
That is no slander, sir, which is a truth,
And what I spake, I spake it to my face.
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JULIET
What I say isn’t slander, sir. It’s the truth.
And what I said, I said to my face.
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PARIS
Thy face is mine, and thou hast slandered it.
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PARIS
Your face is mine, and you have slandered it.
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JULIET
It may be so, for it is not mine own.—
Are you at leisure, holy Father, now,
Or shall I come to you at evening mass?
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JULIET
That may be the case, because my face doesn’t belong to
me.—Do you have time for me now, Father, or should I
come to you at evening mass?
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