Romeo and Juliet

By William

Shakespeare

Act 1, PrologueTwo households, both alike in dignity,

    In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,     From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

    Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.     From forth the fatal loins of these two foes     A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;     Whole misadventured piteous overthrows

    Do with their death bury their parents' strife.     The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

    And the continuance of their parents' rage,     Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

    Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;     The which if you with patient ears attend,

    What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

As a prologue to the play, the Chorus enters. In a ______________________, the Chorus

describes two noble households (called “houses”) in the city of ______________________. The

houses hold an “______________________” against each other that remains a source of violent

and bloody conflict. The Chorus states that from these two houses, ______________________

“______________________” lovers will appear. These lovers will mend the quarrel between

their families by ______________________. The story of these two lovers, and of the terrible

strife between their families, will be the topic of this play.

Act 1, scene 1 Sampson and Gregory, two ______________________ of the house of

______________________, stroll through the streets of Verona. With bawdy banter, Sampson

vents his hatred of the house of Montague. The two exchange punning remarks about physically

conquering Montague men and sexually conquering Montague women. Gregory sees two

Montague servants approaching, and discusses with Sampson the best way to provoke them into

a fight without breaking the law. Sampson says, “I will bite my thumb at them, which is a

disgrace to them, if they bear it.” (I.i. 37-38) Sampson ______________________ at the

Montagues—a highly insulting gesture. A verbal confrontation quickly escalates into a fight.

Benvolio, a kinsman to ______________________, enters and draws his sword in an attempt to

______________________ the confrontation. Tybalt, a kinsman to Capulet, sees Benvolio’s

drawn sword and draws his own. Benvolio explains that he is merely trying to keep the peace,

but Tybalt professes, “What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word,/ As I hate hell, all

Montagues, and thee./ Have at thee, coward!” (I.i.63-65) He then ______________________

Benvolio.

The brawl spreads. A group of ______________________ bearing clubs attempts to restore the

peace by beating down the combatants. ______________________ and

______________________ enter, and only their ______________________ prevent them from

attacking one another. Prince ______________________ arrives and commands the fighting stop

on penalty of ______________________. The Capulets and Montagues

______________________ their weapons. The Prince declares the violence between the two

families has gone on for too long, and proclaims a ______________________ upon anyone who

disturbs the civil peace again.

Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streetsAnd made Verona’s ancient citizensCast by their grave-beseeming ornaments,To wield old partisans in hands as old,Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate.If ever you disturb our streets again,Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. (I.i.82-90)

He says that he will speak to Capulet and Montague more directly on this matter; Capulet exits

with him, the brawlers ______________________, and ______________________ is left alone

with his uncle and aunt, Montague and Lady Montague.

Benvolio describes to Montague how the brawl started. Lady Montague asks whether Benvolio

has seen her son, ______________________. Benvolio replies that he earlier saw Romeo pacing

through a grove of sycamores outside the city; since Romeo seemed ______________________,

Benvolio did not speak to him. Concerned about their son, the Montagues tell Benvolio that

Romeo has often been seen ______________________, walking alone among the sycamores.

They add that they have tried to discover what troubles him, but ______________________.

Benvolio sees Romeo approaching, and promises to find out the reason for his melancholy. The

Montagues quickly depart.

Benvolio approaches his cousin. With a touch of sadness, Romeo tells Benvolio that he is

______________________ with Rosaline, but that she does not return his feelings and has in

fact sworn to live a life of ______________________.

...She’ll not be hitWith Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit.And, in strong proof of chastity well armedFrom love’s weak childish bow, she lives uncharmed.She will not stay the siege of loving terms,Nor bide th’encounter of assailing eyes,Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold.Oh, she is rich in beauty, only poorThat when she dies, with beauty dies her store.:She hath forsworn to love, and in that vowDo I live dead that live to tell it now. (I.i.202-218)

Benvolio counsels Romeo to forget her by ______________________, but Romeo contends that

the woman he loves is the most beautiful of all. Romeo departs, assuring Benvolio that he

______________________ teach him to forget his love. Benvolio resolves to do just that.

Act 1, scene 2

On another street of Verona, Capulet walks with ______________________, a noble kinsman of

the Prince. The two discuss Paris’s desire to ______________________ Capulet’s daughter,

Juliet. Capulet is overjoyed, but also states that Juliet,

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 prideEre we may think her ripe to be a bride. (I.ii.8-11)

He assures Paris that he favors him as a suitor, and invites Paris to the traditional masquerade

feast he is holding that ______________________so that Paris might begin to woo Juliet and

win her heart. Capulet dispatches a servant, ______________________, to invite a list of people

to the feast. As Capulet and Paris walk away, ______________________ laments that he cannot

______________________ and will therefore have difficulty accomplishing his task.

Romeo and Benvolio happen by, still arguing about whether Romeo will be able to forget his

love. Peter asks Romeo to ______________________; Rosaline’s name is one of those on the

list. Before departing, Peter invites Romeo and Benvolio to the party—assuming, he says, that

they are not ______________________. Benvolio tells Romeo that the feast will be the perfect

opportunity to

__________________________________________________________________.

At this same ancient feast of Capulet’sSups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovesWith all the admired beauties of Verona.Go thither, and with unattainted eyeCompare her face with some that I shall show,And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. (I.ii.84-89)

Romeo agrees to go with him, but only because

_______________________________________. He claims, “One fairer than my love? The

all-seeing sun/ Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.” (I.ii.94-95)

Act 1, scene 3 In Capulet’s house, just before the feast is to begin, Lady Capulet calls to the _______________,

needing help to find her ______________________. Juliet enters, and Lady Capulet dismisses

the Nurse so that she might speak with her daughter alone. She immediately ________________,

however, and asks the Nurse to remain and add her counsel. Before Lady Capulet can begin to

speak, the Nurse launches into a long story about how, as a child, an uncomprehending Juliet

became an innocent accomplice to a ______________________.

And then my husband—God be with his soul!He was a merry man—took up the child.“Yea,” quoth he, “Dost thou fall upon they face?Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit,Wilt thou not, Jule?” and, by my holy dame,The pretty wretch left crying and said “ay.” (I.iii.41-46)

Lady Capulet tries unsuccessfully to stop the wildly amused Nurse. An ____________________

Juliet forcefully commands that the Nurse ______________________.

Lady Capulet asks Juliet what she thinks about ______________________. Juliet replies that she

has not given it any thought. Lady Capulet observes that she gave birth to Juliet when she was

almost ______________________. She excitedly continues that Juliet must begin to think about

marriage because the “valiant Paris” has expressed an interest in her. When the nurse hears Paris

has expressed his interest, she call him “______________________” (I.iii.78). Juliet dutifully

replies that she will look upon Paris at the feast to see if she might ______________________. A

servingman enters to announce the beginning of the ______________________.

Act 1, scene 4 Romeo, Benvolio, and their friend Mercutio, all wearing ______________________, have

gathered with a group of mask-wearing guests on their way to the ______________________.

Still melancholy, Romeo wonders how they will get into the Capulets’ feast, since they are

Montagues. When that concern is brushed aside, he states that he will not __________________

at the feast. Mercutio begins to gently ____________ Romeo. Romeo refuses to engage in this

banter, explaining that in a dream he learned that going to the feast was a

___________________. Mercutio responds with a long speech about ______________________

of the fairies, who visits people’s dreams. The speech begins as a flight of fancy, but Mercutio

becomes almost entranced by it, and a bitter, fervent strain creeps in. Romeo steps in to stop the

speech and calm Mercutio down. Mercutio admits that he has been talking of nothing, noting that

dreams are but “the children of an idle brain” (I.iv.97). ______________________ refocuses

their attention on actually getting to the feast. Romeo voices one last concern: he has a feeling

that the night’s activities will set in motion the action of fate, resulting in

______________________.

I fear too early, for my mind misgivesSome consequence yet hanging in the starsShall bitterly begin his fearful dateWith this night’s revels, and expire the termOf a despised life closed in my breastBy some vile forfeit of untimely death.But he that hath the steerage of my course,Direct my sail. On, lusty gentlemen. (I.iv. 107-115)

Then Romeo continues with his friends toward the feast.

Act 1, scene 5 In the great hall of the Capulets, all is a-bustle. The servants work feverishly to make sure all

runs smoothly, and set aside some food to make sure they have some enjoyment of the feast as

well. ______________________t makes his rounds through groups of guests, joking with them

and encouraging all to ______________________.

From across the room, Romeo sees ______________________, and asks a servingman who she

is. The servingman does not know. Romeo is transfixed; ______________________ vanishes

from his mind and he declares that he has never been ____________________ until this

moment.

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear,Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.So shows a snowy dove trooping with crowsAs yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,And, touching hers, make blesses my rude hand.Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. (I.v.42-51)

Moving through the crowd, ______________________ hears and recognizes Romeo’s voice.

Realizing that there is a Montague present, Tybalt sends a servant to fetch his rapier. Capulet

overhears Tybalt and reprimands him, telling him that Romeo is ______________________ in

Verona, and that he will not have the youth ______________________ his feast. Tybalt protests,

but Capulet scolds him until he ______________________. As Capulet moves on, Tybalt vows

that he will ____________________________________________.

Meanwhile, Romeo has approached Juliet and ______________________. In a dialogue laced

with ______________________ metaphors that figure Juliet as a ________ and Romeo as a

_________________ who wishes to erase his sin, he tries to convince her to ________________

him, since it is only through her _________ that he might be absolved. Juliet agrees to remain

still as Romeo kisses her. Thus, in the terms of their conversation, she takes his sin from him.

Juliet then makes the logical leap that if she has taken Romeo’s sin from him, his sin must now

reside in her lips, and so they must ______________________.

Just as their second kiss ends, the __________ arrives and tells Juliet that her mother wants to

speak with her. Romeo asks the Nurse who Juliet’s mother is. The Nurse replies that Lady

___________ is her mother. Romeo is devastated. As the crowd begins to disperse, Benvolio

shows up and leads Romeo from the feast. Juliet is just as struck with the mysterious man she

has kissed, as Romeo is struck with her. She comments to herself that “If he be married./ My

grave is like to be my wedding bed” (I.v.132-133).

In order to find out Romeo’s identity without raising any suspicions, she asks the Nurse to

identify a series of young men. The Nurse goes off and returns with the news that the man’s

name is Romeo, and that he is a ______________________. Juliet then states to herself,

(aside) 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 loathed enemy. (I.v.136-139)

Overcome with anguish that she loves a ______________________, Juliet follows her nurse from the hall.

Act 2, prologueThe Chorus delivers another short ______________ describing the new love between

____________ and ______________: the ______________ between the lovers’ ___________

makes it difficult for them to find the time or place to meet and let their passion grow; but the

prospect of their love gives each of them the power and determination to elude the obstacles

placed in their path.

Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,And young affection gapes to be his heir;That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,Alike betwitchèd by the charm of looks,But to his foe supposed he must complain,And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks:Being held a foe, he may not have accessTo breathe such vows as lovers use to swear;And she as much in love, her means much lessTo meet her new-beloved any where:But passion lends them power, time means, to meetTempering extremities with extreme sweet. (II.1-14)

Act 2, scene 1Having left the feast, Romeo decides that he ____________________________. He must instead

try to find ______________. He climbs a wall bordering the Capulet property and leaps down

into the Capulet orchard.

______________ and ______________ enter, calling out for ______________. They are sure he

is nearby, but ______________ does not answer. Exasperated and amused, ______________

mocks ______________’s feelings for ______________ in an obscene speech. ______________

and ______________ exit under the assumption that ______________ does not want to be

found.

Act 2, scene 2______________ suddenly appears at a ______________ above the spot where Romeo is

standing. Romeo compares her to the ______________, far more ______________ than the

______________ it banishes.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,Who is already sick and pale with grief,That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.Be not her maid, since she is envious;Her vestal livery is but sick and greenAnd none but fools do wear it; cast it off.It is my lady, O, it is my love!O, that she knew she were!She speaks yet she says nothing; what of that?Her eye discourses; I will answer it.I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks.Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,Having some business, do entreat her eyesTo twinkle in their spheres till they return.What if her eyes were there, they in her head?The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heavenWould through the airy region stream so brightThat birds would sing and think it were not night.See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!O, that I were a glove upon that hand,That I might touch that cheek! (II.ii.2-25)

He nearly speaks to her, but thinks better of it. Juliet, musing to herself and ______________

that Romeo is in her garden, asks why ______________ must be ______________—a

______________, and therefore an ______________ to her family. She says that if he would

______________ his Montague name, she would give herself to him; or if he would simply

swear that he loved her, she would ______________ her Capulet name.

JULIETO Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?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.

ROMEO[Aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?

JULIET'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,Nor arm, nor face, nor any other partBelonging to a man. O, be some other name!What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet;So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,Retain that dear perfection which he owesWithout that title. Romeo, doff thy name,And for that name which is no part of theeTake all myself. (II.ii.33-48)

Romeo responds to her plea, ______________ Juliet, since she thought she was _____________.

She wonders how he found her and he tells her that __________ led him to her. Juliet worries

that Romeo will be ______________ if he is found in the garden, but Romeo ______________

to budge, claiming that Juliet’s ______________ would make him immune to his

______________. Juliet admits she feels as strongly about Romeo as he professes he loves her,

but she worries that perhaps Romeo will prove inconstant or ____________, or will think Juliet

______________. Romeo begins to swear to her, but she stops him, concerned that everything is

happening ______________. He reassures her, and the two confess their love again. __________

calls for Juliet, and Juliet goes inside for a moment. When she reappears, she tells Romeo that

she will send someone to him the next day to see if his love is honorable and if he intends to

______________. __________ calls again, and again Juliet withdraws. She appears at the

window once more to set a time when her emissary should call on him: they settle on

__________. They exult in their love for another moment before saying ___________________.

Juliet ____________________, and Romeo departs in search of a __________ to __________

him in his cause.

Act 2, scene 3In the early morning, __________ __________ enters, holding a basket. He fills the basket with

various weeds, herbs, and flowers. While musing on the beneficence of the Earth, he

demonstrates a __________ __________ of the properties of the plants he collects. Romeo enters

and Friar Lawrence intuits that Romeo ____________________. The friar fears that Romeo may

have __________. Romeo assures him that did not happen, and describes his new love for

__________, his intent to __________, and his desire that the friar consent to marry them that

__________. Friar Lawrence is __________ at this sudden shift from Rosaline to Juliet. He

comments on the fickleness of young love, Romeo’s in particular. Romeo defends himself,

noting that Juliet ____________________ while Rosaline did not. Remaining skeptical at

Romeo’s sudden change of heart, Friar Lawrence __________ to marry the couple. He

expresses the hope that the __________ of Romeo and Juliet might __________ the feud

ravaging the Montagues and Capulets: “For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your

households’ rancor to pure love” (II.iii.91-92).

Act 2, scene 4Later that morning, just __________, __________ and __________ wonder what happened to

Romeo the previous night. __________ has learned from a __________ __________ that

Romeo did not return home; Mercutio spouts some unkind words about __________. Benvolio

also relates that Tybalt has sent a __________ to Romeo challenging him to a __________.

Mercutio responds that Romeo is already dead, struck by ____________________; he wonders

aloud whether Romeo is man enough to defeat __________. When Benvolio comes to Romeo’s

defense, Mercutio launches into an extended description of Tybalt. He describes Tybalt as a

____________________, perfectly proper and composed in style. Mercutio __________ all that

Tybalt stands for.

__________ arrives. Mercutio immediately begins to ridicule him, claiming that Romeo has

been made weak by __________. As a way of __________ what he believes is Romeo’s

overwrought love for Rosaline, Mercutio takes the part of Romeo and compares Rosaline to all

the most famous __________ of antiquity, finding Rosaline far superior.

MERCUTIOWithout his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rhyme her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy; Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose. Signior Romeo, bon jour! there's a French salutation to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit fairly last night. (II.iv.34-41)

Then Mercutio accuses Romeo of __________ his friends the ____________________. Romeo

does not deny the charge, but claims his need was great, and so the offense is forgivable.

The __________ enters, trailed by the servant, __________. The __________ asks if any of the

three young men know __________, and __________ identifies himself. __________ teases the

__________, insinuating that she is a __________, thus infuriating her. Benvolio and Mercutio

take their leave to have __________ at Montague’s house, and Romeo says he will follow

shortly. The __________ warns __________ that he had better not attempt to “deal double”

with __________, and __________ assures her he is not. He asks the Nurse, “Bid her devise/

Some means to come to shrift this afternoon;/ And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell/

Be shrived and married” (II.iv.154-157)

The Nurse __________ to deliver the message. The Nurse also agrees to set up a __________

__________ so that Romeo might __________ to Juliet’s __________ on their

____________________.

Act 2, scenes 5In the __________ orchard, Juliet impatiently waits for her __________, whom she sent to meet

Romeo __________ earlier.

The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;In half an hour she promised to return.Perchance she cannot meet him: that's not so.O, she is lame! love's heralds should be thoughts,Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams,Driving back shadows over louring hills:Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love,And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.Now is the sun upon the highmost hillOf this day's journey, and from nine till twelveIs three long hours, yet she is not come.Had she affections and warm youthful blood,She would be as swift in motion as a ball;My words would bandy her to my sweet love,And his to me:But old folks, many feign as they were dead;Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.O God, she comes! (II.v.1-17)

At last the Nurse returns, and Juliet anxiously presses her for news. The Nurse claims to be too

__________, __________, and __________ to tell Juliet what has happened. Juliet grows frantic,

and eventually the Nurse gives in and tells her, “…hie you hence to Friar Laurence'

cell;/There stays a husband to make you a wife” (II.v.67-68). Then the Nurse departs to wait

in the __________ for Romeo’s __________, who is to bring a __________ for Romeo to use

to climb up to Juliet’s chamber that __________ to consummate their __________.

Act 2, scenes 6__________ and __________ __________ wait for __________ to arrive at the cell. An

ecstatic Romeo brashly states that he does not care what misfortune might come, as it will pale in

comparison to the joy he feels right now. __________ __________ counsels Romeo to

__________ __________ and not with too much intensity, saying,

These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousnessAnd in the taste confounds the appetite:Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. (II.vi.9-15)

__________ enters and Romeo asks her to speak poetically of her __________. __________

responds, “But my true love is grown to such excess/ I cannot sum up sum of half my

wealth” (II.vi.33-34). The lovers exit with __________ __________ and are __________ .

Act 3, scene 1As they walk in the street under the boiling sun, _______________ suggests to ______________

that they go _______________, fearing that a _______________ will be unavoidable should

they encounter _______________ men. Mercutio replies that Benvolio has as quick a _________

as any man in Italy, and should not criticize others for their short fuses. _______________ enters

with a group of cronies. He approaches Benvolio and Mercutio and asks to speak with one of

them. Annoyed, _______________ begins to taunt and provoke him. _______________ enters.

TYBALT Romeo, the hate I bear thee can affordNo better term than this,--thou art a _______________.

ROMEO Tybalt, the reason that I have to _______________ theeDoth much excuse the appertaining rageTo such a greeting: villain am I none;Therefore _______________; I see thou know'st me not.

TYBALT Boy, this shall not excuse the _______________That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw.

ROMEO I do protest, I _______________ injured thee,But _______________ thee better than thou canst devise,Till thou shalt know the reason of my love:And so, good _______________,--which name I tenderAs dearly as my _______________,--be satisfied.

MERCUTIO O calm, dishonourable, _______________ submission!Alla stoccata carries it away.

Draws Tybalt, you _______________, will you _______________?

TYBALT What wouldst thou have with me?

MERCUTIO Good king of _______________, nothing but one of your _______________ lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as you shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the eight. Will you pluck your _____________ out of his pitcher by the ears? make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out.

TYBALT I am for you.

DrawingROMEO Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.

MERCUTIO Come, sir, your passado.

They fightROMEO Draw, _______________; beat down their weapons.

Gentlemen, for shame, _______________ this outrage!Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hathForbidden bandying in Verona streets:Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!

TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his followersMERCUTIO I am hurt.

A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.Is he gone, and hath nothing?

BENVOLIO What, art thou hurt?

MERCUTIO Ay, ay, a _______________, a _______________; marry, 'tis enough.Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.

Exit PageROMEO Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.

MERCUTIO No, 'tis not so deep as a _______________, nor so wide as a _______________; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a _______________man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A _______________ o' both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.

ROMEO I thought all for the best.

MERCUTIO Help me into some house, Benvolio,Or I shall faint. A _______________ o' both your houses!They have made _______________' _______________ of me: I have it,And soundly too: your houses!

Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIOROMEO This gentleman, the prince's near ally,

My very friend, hath got his _______________ hurtIn my behalf; my reputation stain'dWith Tybalt's slander,--Tybalt, that an hourHath been my kinsman! O sweet _______________,Thy beauty hath made me effeminateAnd in my temper soften'd valour's steel!

Re-enter BENVOLIO

BENVOLIO O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead!That gallant spirit hath aspired the _______________,Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.

ROMEO This day's _______________ fate on more days doth depend;This but begins the woe, others must end.

BENVOLIO Here comes the furious _______________ back again.

ROMEO Alive, in triumph! and _______________ slain!Away to heaven, respective lenity,And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!

Re-enter TYBALTNow, _______________, take the villain back again,That late thou gavest me; for _______________'s soulIs but a little way above our heads,Staying for thine to keep him company:Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.

TYBALT Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,Shalt with him hence.

ROMEO This shall determine that.

They fight; _______________ fallsBENVOLIO Romeo, away, be gone!

The citizens are up, and _______________ slain.Stand not amazed: the _______________ will doom thee ______________,If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away!

ROMEO O, I am fortune's _______________!

BENVOLIO Why dost thou stay?

Exit ROMEO

The __________ enters, accompanied by many citizens, and the __________ and __________.

____________ tells the ____________ the story of the brawl, emphasizing Romeo’s attempt to

keep the peace, but ___________________, Tybalt’s aunt, cries that Benvolio is ____________

to protect the Montagues. She demands Romeo’s _________. Prince Escalus chooses instead to

_________ Romeo from Verona. He declares that should Romeo be found within the city, he

will be ____________.

Act 3, scene 2In Capulet’s house, ____________ longs for ____________ to fall so that ____________ will

come. Suddenly the ____________ rushes in with news of the fight between ____________ and

____________. But the ____________ is so distraught, she cries, “Ah, well-a-day! he's dead,

he's dead, he's dead!/ We are undone, lady, we are undone!/ Alack the day! he's gone, he's

kill'd, he's dead!” (III.ii.38-40) Juliet assumes ____________ has ____________ himself, and

she resigns to ____________ herself. The ____________ then begins to moan about

____________’s death, and Juliet briefly fears that both ____________ and ____________ are

dead. When the story is at last straight, Juliet understands that ____________ has killed

____________ and been sentenced to ____________.

JULIETO serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!Despised substance of divinest show!Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,A damned saint, an honourable villain!O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiendIn moral paradise of such sweet flesh?Was ever book containing such vile matterSo fairly bound? O that deceit should dwellIn such a gorgeous palace!

NurseThere's no trust,No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.Ah, where's my man? give me some aqua vitae:These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.Shame come to Romeo!

JULIETBlister'd be thy tongueFor such a wish! he was not born to shame:Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd

Sole monarch of the universal earth.O, what a beast was I to chide at him!

NurseWill you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin?

JULIETShall I speak ill of him that is my husband?Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband:Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring;Your tributary drops belong to woe,Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband:All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death,That murder'd me: I would forget it fain;But, O, it presses to my memory,Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds:'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo--banished;'That 'banished,' that one word 'banished,'Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's deathWas woe enough, if it had ended there:Or, if sour woe delights in fellowshipAnd needly will be rank'd with other griefs,Why follow'd not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,'Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both,Which modern lamentations might have moved?But with a rear-ward following Tybalt's death,'Romeo is banished,' to speak that word,Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished!'There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,In that word's death; no words can that woe sound.(III.ii.74-127)

The Nurse assures her, however, that she knows where Romeo is ____________, and will see to

it that Romeo comes to her for their ________________________. Juliet gives the Nurse a

____________ to give to Romeo as a token of her ____________.

Act 3, scene 3In Friar ____________’s cell, Romeo is overcome with ____________, and wonders what

sentence the Prince has decreed. Friar Lawrence tells him he is ____________: the Prince has

only banished him. In response, Romeo says, “Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;'/ For

exile hath more terror in his look,/ Much more than death: do not say 'banishment'”

(III.iii.12-14). The friar tries to counsel Romeo but the youth is so ____________ that he will

have none of it. Romeo falls to the floor. The Nurse arrives, and Romeo desperately asks her for

news of Juliet. He assumes that Juliet now thinks of him as a ____________ and threatens to

_______himself. Friar Lawrence ____________ him and ____________ him for being unmanly.

Hold thy desperate hand:Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denoteThe unreasonable fury of a beast:Unseemly woman in a seeming man!Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order,I thought thy disposition better temper'd.(III.iii.108-115)

He explains that Romeo has much to be ____________ for: he and Juliet are both

____________, and after matters have calmed down, Prince ____________ might change his

mind. The friar sets forth a ____________:

Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her:But look thou stay not till the watch be set,For then thou canst not pass to Mantua;Where thou shalt live, till we can find a timeTo blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee backWith twenty hundred thousand times more joyThan thou went'st forth in lamentation.(III.iii.146-154)

The Nurse hands Romeo the ____________ from Juliet, and this physical symbol of their love

revives his spirits. The Nurse ____________, and Romeo bids Friar Lawrence ____________.

He must prepare to ________________________ and then ________________________.

Act 3, scene 4____________, ________________________, and ____________ walk together. ____________

says that because of the terrible recent events, he has had no time to ask his daughter about her

____________ for Paris. ________________________ states that she will know her daughter’s

thoughts by the ____________. Paris is about to leave when Capulet calls him back and

promises Paris that the ____________ will be held on ____________ . Then he stops suddenly

and asks what day it is. Paris responds that it is ____________; Capulet decides that

____________ is too soon, and that the wedding should instead be held on ____________.

Act 3, scene 5Enter ROMEO and JULIET above, at the windowJULIET Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:

It was the ____________, and not the ____________,That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree:Believe me, love, it was the ____________.

ROMEO It was the ____________, the herald of the morn,No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaksDo lace the severing clouds in yonder east:____________'s candles are burnt out, and jocund ____________Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.I must be ________________________, or _____________________.

JULIET Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I:It is some meteor that the sun exhales,To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,And light thee on thy way to Mantua:Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone.

ROMEO Let me be ta'en, let me be put to ____________;I am content, so thou wilt have it so.I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beatThe vaulty heaven so high above our heads:I have more care to stay than will to go:Come, ____________, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.How is't, my soul? let's talk; it is not day.

JULIET It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!It is the lark that sings so out of tune,Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.Some say the lark makes sweet division;This doth not so, for she divideth us:Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,O, now I would they had changed voices too!Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day,O, now be ____________; more light and light it grows.

ROMEO More light and light; more __________ and __________ our woes!

Enter Nurse, to the chamberNurse Madam!

JULIET Nurse?

Nurse Your ________________________is coming to your chamber:The day is broke; be wary, look about.

ExitJULIET Then, window, let day in, and let life out.

ROMEO Farewell, farewell! one ____________, and I'll descend.

He goeth downJULIET Art thou gone so? love, __________, ay, __________, __________!

I must hear from thee every day in the hour,For in a minute there are many days:O, by this count I shall be much in yearsEre I again behold my __________!

ROMEO Farewell!I will omit no opportunityThat may convey my greetings, __________, to thee.

JULIET O think'st thou we ______________________________?

ROMEO I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serveFor sweet discourses in our time to come.

JULIET O God, I have an ill-divining soul!Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,As one __________ in the bottom of a __________:Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st __________.

ROMEO And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!

(III.v.1-58)

Romeo hurries away as Juliet pulls in the ladder and begs fate to bring him back to her quickly.

Lady Capulet calls to her daughter. Juliet wonders why her mother would come to speak to her

so early in the morning. Unaware that her daughter is __________ to Romeo, Lady Capulet

enters the room and mistakes Juliet’s tears as continued grief for __________. Lady Capulet tells

Juliet of her deep desire to see “the villain Romeo” dead. In a complicated bit of __________,

Juliet leads her mother to believe that she also wishes __________’s __________, when in fact

she is firmly stating her __________ for him.

LADY CAPULETWell, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death,As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him.

JULIETWhat villain madam?

LADY CAPULETThat same villain, Romeo.

JULIET[Aside] Villain and he be many miles asunder.--God Pardon him! I do, with all my heart;And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.

LADY CAPULETThat is, because the traitor murderer lives.

JULIETAy, madam, from the reach of these my hands:Would none but I might venge my cousin's death!

LADY CAPULETWe will have vengeance for it, fear thou not:Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,Where that same banish'd runagate doth live,Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram,

That he shall soon keep Tybalt company:And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied.

JULIETIndeed, I never shall be satisfiedWith Romeo, till I behold him--dead--Is my poor heart for a kinsman vex'd.Madam, if you could find out but a manTo bear a poison, I would temper it;That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhorsTo hear him named, and cannot come to him.To wreak the love I bore my cousinUpon his body that slaughter'd him!(III.v.78-102)

Lady Capulet tells Juliet about Capulet’s plan for her to marry Paris on __________, explaining

that he wishes to make her happy. Juliet is appalled. She __________ the match, saying “I will

not marry yet; and when I do, I swear / It shall be Romeo—whom you know I hate— /

Rather than Paris” (III.v.121–123). Capulet enters the chamber. When he learns of Juliet’s

determination to defy him he becomes __________, “Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient

wretch!/ I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,/ Or never after look me in the

face” (III.v.160-163). When Juliet entreats her mother to intercede, her mother __________.

After Capulet and Lady Capulet storm away, Juliet asks her nurse how she might __________

her predicament. The Nurse advises her to __________ Paris—he is a better match, she says, and

Romeo is as good as dead anyhow. Though disgusted by her nurse’s __________, Juliet pretends

to agree, and tells her nurse that she is going to make __________ at Friar Lawrence’s. Alone,

Juliet comments to herself,

Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongueWhich she hath praised him with above compareSo many thousand times? Go, counsellor;Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.I'll to the friar, to know his remedy:If all else fail, myself have power to __________.(III.v.236-243)

Act 4, scene 1In his cell, ____________________ speaks with ________ about the latter’s impending

_____________ to ___________. Paris says that Juliet’s _________ about _____________’s

death has made her unbalanced, and that Capulet, in his wisdom, has determined they should

marry soon so that Juliet can stop _____________ and put an end to her period of mourning. The

friar remarks to himself that he wishes he were unaware of the reason that Paris’s marriage to

Juliet should be delayed.

Juliet enters, and Paris speaks to her _______________, if somewhat arrogantly. Juliet responds

indifferently, showing neither affection nor dislike. She remarks that she has not married him

yet. On the pretense that he must hear Juliet’s _____________, Friar Lawrence ushers Paris

away, though not before Paris __________ Juliet once. After Paris leaves, Juliet asks Friar

Lawrence for help, brandishing a ____________ and saying that she will ________ herself rather

than ____________________________.

FRIAR LAURENCEHold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope,Which craves as desperate an execution.As that is desperate which we would prevent.If, rather than to marry County Paris,Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,Then is it likely thou wilt undertakeA thing like death to chide away this shame,That copest with death himself to scape from it:And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.

JULIETO, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,From off the battlements of yonder tower;Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurkWhere serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;Or bid me go into a new-made graveAnd hide me with a dead man in his shroud;Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;And I will do it without fear or doubt,To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.

FRIAR LAURENCEHold, then; go home, be merry, give consentTo marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow:To-morrow night look that thou lie alone;Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:Take thou this vial, being then in bed,And this distilled liquor drink thou off;When presently through all thy veins shall runA cold and drowsy humour, for no pulseShall keep his native progress, but surcease:No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fadeTo paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall,Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;Each part, deprived of supple government,Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk deathThou shalt continue two and forty hours,And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comesTo rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead:Then, as the manner of our country is,In thy best robes uncover'd on the bierThou shalt be borne to that same ancient vaultWhere all the kindred of the Capulets lie.In the mean time, against thou shalt awake,Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,And hither shall he come: and he and IWill watch thy waking, and that very nightShall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.And this shall free thee from this present shame;If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear,Abate thy valour in the acting it.(IV.i.69-121)

Juliet consents to the plan wholeheartedly. Friar Lawrence gives her the sleeping potion.

Act 4, scene 2Juliet returns home, where she finds Capulet and Lady Capulet preparing for the ___________.

She surprises her parents by repenting her disobedience and cheerfully ________ to marry Paris.

Capulet is so pleased that he insists on moving the marriage up a day, to ________________—

tomorrow. Juliet heads to her chambers to “prepare” for her ____________. Capulet heads off to

_____________________________________.

Act 4, scene 3In her bedchamber, Juliet asks the Nurse to let her ________________________________, and

repeats the request to ___________________ when she arrives. Alone, clutching the

__________ given to her by Friar Lawrence, she wonders what will happen when she drinks it.

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,That almost freezes up the heat of life::Come, vial.What if this mixture do not work at all?Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there.

Laying down her dagger

What if it be a poison, which the friarSubtly hath minister'd to have me dead,Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd,Because he married me before to Romeo?I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,For he hath still been tried a holy man.How if, when I am laid into the tomb,I wake before the time that RomeoCome to redeem me? there's a fearful point!Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?Or, if I live, is it not very like,The horrible conceit of death and night,Together with the terror of the place,--As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,Where, for these many hundred years, the bonesOf all my buried ancestors are packed:Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,At some hours in the night spirits resort;--Alack, alack, is it not like that I,So early waking, what with loathsome smells,And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth,That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:--O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,Environed with all these hideous fears?And madly play with my forefather's joints?And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?

And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone,As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghostSeeking out Romeo, that did spit his bodyUpon a rapier's point: stay, Tybalt, stay!Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.(IV.ii.14-58)

Act 4, scenes 4-5Early the next morning, the Capulet house is aflutter with preparations for the wedding. Capulet

sends the Nurse to go wake Juliet. She finds Juliet _____ and begins to wail, soon joined by both

Lady Capulet and Capulet. Lady Capulet cries, “O me, O me! My child, my only life,/

Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!” (IV.iv.19-20) Capulet cries, “Death lies on her like

an untimely frost/Upon the sweetest flower of all the field” (IV.iv.28-29) and “Death, that

hath ta'en her hence to make me wail,/ Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak”

(IV.iv.32-33). Paris arrives with Friar Lawrence and a group of musicians for the ___________.

When he learns what has happened, Paris joins in the lamentations. The friar reminds them all

that Juliet has gone to a better place, and urges them to make ready for her ________________.

Sorrowfully, they comply, and exit.

Left behind, the musicians begin to pack up, their task cut short. Peter, the Capulet servant,

enters and asks the musicians to play a ________________ to ease his sorrowful heart. The

musicians refuse, arguing that to play such music would be inappropriate. Angered, Peter insults

the musicians, who respond in kind. After _____________ a final insult at the musicians, Peter

leaves. The musicians decide to wait for the mourners to return so that they might get to

________________________________________.

Act 5, scene 1On _________________________, on a street in ____________, a cheerful Romeo describes a

wonderful dream he had the night before: Juliet found him lying dead, but she ________ him,

and breathed new life into his body. Just then, Balthasar enters, and Romeo greets him happily,

saying that Balthasar must have come from ___________ with news of ____________ and his

father. Romeo comments that nothing can be ill in the world if Juliet is _______. Balthasar

replies that nothing can be ill, then, for Juliet is well: she is in ___________, found __________

that morning at her home. Thunderstruck, Romeo cries out “Then I defy you, stars” (V.i.24).

He tells Balthasar to get him pen and paper (with which he writes a letter for Balthasar to give to

Montague) and to hire horses, and says that he will return to Verona that ___________.

Balthasar says that Romeo seems so distraught that he is afraid to leave him, but Romeo insists.

Romeo suddenly stops and asks if Balthasar is carrying a _________ from _________________.

Balthasar says he is not, and Romeo sends his servant on his way. Once Balthasar is gone,

Romeo says that he will lie with Juliet that ________. He goes to find an apothecary, a seller of

____________. After telling the man in the shop that he looks ______, Romeo offers to pay him

well for a vial of ___________. The Apothecary says that he has just such a thing, but that

selling __________ in Mantua carries the ___________________. Romeo replies that the

Apothecary is too poor to refuse the sale. The Apothecary finally relents and ______ Romeo the

poison. Once alone, Romeo speaks to the vial, declaring, “Come, cordial and not poison, go

with me/ To Juliet's ______________; for there must I use thee” (V.i.87-88).

Act 5, scene 2At his cell, Friar Lawrence speaks with Friar John, whom he had earlier sent to Mantua with a

__________ for Romeo. He asks John how Romeo responded to his letter (which described the

plan involving Juliet’s false death). Friar John replies that he was ________ to deliver the letter

because he was shut up in a quarantined house due to an outbreak of__________. Friar Lawrence

becomes upset, realizing that if Romeo does not know about Juliet’s false death, there will be no

one to retrieve her from the tomb when she __________. (He does not know that Romeo has

learned of Juliet’s death and believes it to be _________.) Sending for a crowbar, Friar Lawrence

declares that he will have to____________ Juliet from the tomb on his own. He sends another

__________ to Romeo to warn him about what has happened, and plans to keep Juliet in his

_________ until Romeo ____________.

Act 5, scene 3In the _________________ that night, Paris enters with a torch-bearing servant. He orders the

page to withdraw, then begins scattering ____________ on Juliet’s grave. He hears a whistle—

the servant’s warning that someone is approaching. He withdraws into the darkness. _________,

carrying a crowbar, enters with Balthasar. He tells Balthasar that he has come to ________ the

Capulet tomb in order to take back a valuable _________ he had given to Juliet. Romeo

threatens him,

But if thou, jealous, dost return to pryIn what I further shall intend to do,By heaven, I will tear thee joint by jointAnd strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:The time and my intents are savage-wild,More fierce and more inexorable farThan empty tigers or the roaring sea.(V.iii.33-39)

Then he orders Balthasar to leave, and, in the morning, to deliver to Montague the letter Romeo

had given him. Balthasar withdraws, but, mistrusting his master’s intentions, _______________.

From his hiding place, Paris recognizes Romeo as the man who _____________________, and

thus as the man who indirectly murdered Juliet, since it is her ____________________________

that is supposed to have killed her. As Romeo has been exiled from the city on penalty of death,

Paris thinks that Romeo must hate the ______________ so much that he has returned to the tomb

to do some dishonor to the corpse of either _______________________________. In a _______,

Paris accosts Romeo. Romeo pleads with him to_________, but Paris ____________. They draw

their _____________________________________. Paris’s page runs off to get the civil watch.

Romeo _________Paris. As he dies, Paris asks, to be laid near ____________ in the tomb, and

Romeo ______________. Romeo descends into the tomb carrying _____________________. He

finds Juliet lying peacefully, and wonders how she can still look so ________________—as if

she __________________________. Romeo speaks to Juliet of his intention to

_________________________ with her.

Ah, dear Juliet,Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believeThat unsubstantial death is amorous,And that the lean abhorred monster keepsThee here in dark to be his paramour?For fear of that, I still will stay with thee;And never from this palace of dim nightDepart again: here, here will I remain

With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, hereWill I set up my everlasting rest,And shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFrom this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O youThe doors of breath, seal with a righteous kissA dateless bargain to engrossing death!Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!Thou desperate pilot, now at once run onThe dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!Here's to my love!

Drinks

O true apothecary!Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.(V.iii.101-120)

Just then, ______________________ enters the churchyard. He encounters Balthasar, who tells

him that Romeo is in the _______. Balthasar says that he __________________ and dreamed

that Romeo ___________________________________. Troubled, the friar enters the tomb,

where he finds ____________________ and then _____________. As the friar takes in the

bloody scene, _______________________________.

Juliet asks the friar where her husband is. Hearing a noise that he believes is the coming of the

watch, the friar quickly replies that both __________________________________, and that she

_________________________. Juliet ______________ to leave, and the friar, fearful that the

watch is imminent, _____________________. Juliet sees Romeo dead beside her, and surmises

from the empty vial that he has drunk ______________. Hoping she might die by the same

poison, Juliet __________________, but to no avail. Hearing the approaching watch, Juliet

unsheathes _________________ and, saying, “O happy dagger, / This is thy sheath,”

(V.iii.171) ________________ herself. She _______________ upon Romeo’s body.

Chaos reigns in the churchyard, where Paris’s page has brought the watch. The watchmen

discover bloodstains near the tomb; they hold Balthasar and Friar Lawrence, who they

discovered loitering nearby. The _______________ and the _______________ enter. Romeo,

Juliet, and Paris are discovered in the tomb. _______________ arrives, declaring that

_______________ has died of grief for Romeo’s exile. The _______________ shows Montague

his son’s body. Upon the Prince’s request, Friar Lawrence succinctly tells the story of Romeo

and Juliet’s ______________________________ and its consequences. Balthasar gives the

Prince the _______________ Romeo had previously written to his father. The Prince says that it

confirms the friar’s story. He scolds the _______________ and _______________, calling the

tragedy a consequence of their _______________ and reminding them that he himself has lost

two close kinsmen: _______________ and _______________. Capulet and Montague clasp

_______________ and agree to _____________________________________________.

CAPULETO brother Montague, give me thy hand:This is my daughter's jointure, for no moreCan I demand.

MONTAGUEBut I can give thee more:For I will raise her statue in pure _______________;That while Verona by that name is known,There shall no figure at such rate be setAs that of true and faithful _______________.

CAPULETAs rich shall _______________'s by his lady's lie;Poor sacrifices of our enmity!

PRINCEA glooming peace this morning with it brings;The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:For never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo.Exeunt(V.iii.296-310).