No Fear Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
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Act 2, Scene 2, Page 8
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JULIET
Romeo!
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JULIET
Romeo!
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ROMEO
My nyas?
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ROMEO
My baby hawk?
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JULIET
What o'clock
tomorrow
Shall I send to thee?
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JULIET
What time tomorrow should I send a messenger to you?
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ROMEO
By the hour of nine.
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ROMEO
By nine o'clock.
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JULIET
I will not fail. 'Tis twenty year till then.
I have forgot why I did call thee back.
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JULIET
I won’t fail. From now until then seems like twenty
years. I have forgotten why I called you back.
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ROMEO
Let me stand here till thou remember it.
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ROMEO
Let me stand here until you remember your reason.
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JULIET
I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,
Remembering how I love thy company.
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JULIET
I’ll forget it, and you’ll have to stand there
forever. I’ll only remember how much I love your
company.
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ROMEO
And I’ll still stay, to have thee still forget,
Forgetting any other home but this.
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ROMEO
I’ll keep standing here, even if you keep forgetting.
I’ll forget that I have any home besides this spot right
here.
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JULIET
'Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone.
And yet no further than a wanton’s bird,
That lets it hop a little from his hand
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silken thread plucks it back again,
So loving-jealous of his liberty.
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JULIET
It’s almost morning. I want to make you go, but
I’d only let you go as far as a spoiled child lets his pet
bird go. He lets the bird hop a little from his hand and then yanks
him back by a string.
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ROMEO
I would I were thy bird.
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ROMEO
I wish I was your bird.
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JULIET
Sweet,
so would I.
Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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JULIET
My sweet, so do I. But I would kill you by petting you too much.
Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow that
I’ll say good night until tonight becomes tomorrow.
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