Romeo and Juliet Important Quotes Act I and Act II Read the quotes below. Without looking at the play, try to recall the speaker of the quotation.
Explain the context of the quotation, which means you should describe the events of the play that prompted the quote. Explain the meaning of the quote as well. What is the speaker saying?
Finally, explain any literary devices that might be present in the quote:

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“Three civil brawls bred of an airy word
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets
And made Verona’s ancient citizens
Cast by their grave-beseeming ornaments
To wield old partisans in hands as old,
Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate (Act,1, sc. i 91-97).”
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“My child is yet a stranger in the world.
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.
Let two more summers wither in their pride
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride (Act 1, sc. ii 8--11).”
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“Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face,
And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen.
Examine every married lineament
And see how one another lends content,
And what obscured in this fair volume lies
Find written in the margent of his eyes (Act 1, sc iii 87-93).”
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“I fear too early, for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels, and expire the term
Of a despisèd life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death (Act I, sc iv 113--118).”
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“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear—
Beauty too rich for use, for Earth too dear (Act I, sc v 52--54).”
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“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 (Act I, sc v 108--111).”
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“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me
That I must love a loathèd enemy (Act I, sc v 153--156).”
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“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” (Act II, sc ii 38--39)”
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“Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this contract tonight.
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say “It lightens.” Sweet, good night ( Act II, sc ii 123-128).”
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“And art thou changed? Pronounce this sentence
then:
Women may fall when there’s no strength in men (Act II, sc iii 83--85).”

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