"O brawling love, O loving hate . . . heavy lightness, serious vanity" (I, i, 171 & 173).

"Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health" (I, i, 175).

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs — / Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; / Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears. / What is it else? A madness most discreet" (I, i, 185-188).

"She'll not be hit / With Cupid's arrow. She hath Diana's wit, / And in strong proof of chastity, well arm'd" (V, i, 203-205).

"From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed" (V, i, 206)

"The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she" (I, ii, 14).

"Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, / And find delight writ there with beauty's pen" (I, iii, 83-84).

"Lady, such a man / As all the world -why, he's a man of wax" (I, iii, 77-78).

"You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead / So stakes me to the ground I cannot move" (I, iv, 12-14).

"You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings, / And soar with them above a common bound" (I, iv, 15-16).

"Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word. / If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire, / Or – save your reverence – love wherein thou stickest

Up to the ears" (I, iv, 38-41).

"I mean, sir, in delay / We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day" (I, iv, 42-43).

"O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you; / She is the fairies' midwife" (I, iv, 51-52).

"Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night's revels" (I, iv, 105-107).

"My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand/To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss" (I, v, 94-95).

"He bears him like a portly gentleman" (I, v, 65).

"Verona brags of him/To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth" (I, v, 66-67).

"Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie, / And young affection gapes to be his heir" (II, Prologue, 1-2).

"Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, / One nick-name for her purblind son and heir, / Young Adam Cupid — he that shot so true, / When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid" (II, i, 12-15).

"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" (II, ii, 2-3).

"Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, / Having some business, do entreat her eyes / To twinkle in their spheres till they return" (II, ii, 15-17).

"Thou art / As glorious to this night, being o'er my head / As is a winged messenger of heaven" (II, ii, 26-28).

"By love, who first did prompt me to inquire; / He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes" (II, ii, 80-81).

"Would I tear the cave where Echo lies, / And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine, / With repetition of my Romeo's name" (II, ii, 163-165).

"Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud" (II, ii, 162).

"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" (II, ii, 4-6).

"No further than a wanton's bird, / Who lets it hop a little from her hand, / Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves" (II,ii, 179-180).

"The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night" (II, iii, 1).

"And fleckled darkness, like a drunkard, reels" (I, iii, 3)

"And fleckled darkness, like a drunkard, reels" (I, iii, 3)

"Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye" (I, iii, 5).

"The earth, that's nature's mother, is her tomb; / What is her burying grave, that is her womb" (II, iii, 9-10).

"The earth, that's nature's mother, is her tomb; / What is her burying grave, that is her womb" (II, iii, 9-10).

"Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, / And vice sometimes, by action, dignified" (II, iii, 21-22).

"Old folks, many feign as they were dead; / Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead" (I, v, 12-13).

Love's heralds should be thoughts, / Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams, / Driving back shadows over louring hills" (II, v, 4-5).

"These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume" (II, vi, 9-10).

"These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume" (II, vi, 9-10).

"The sweetest honey / Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, / And in the taste confounds the appetite" (II, vi, 11-13).

"Thou art like one of those fellows that when / he enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword / upon the table and says "God send me no need of / thee!" (III, i, 5-7)

"Ask for me tomorrow, / and you shall find me a grave man" (III, i, 96-97).

"They have made worms' meat of me" (III, 106).

"Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, / Towards Phoebus' lodging. Such a wagoner / As Phaethon would whip you to the west, / And bring in cloudy night immediately" (III, ii, 1-4).

"I am not I, if there be such an 'Ay'" (III, ii, 48).

"Romeo is 'banished,' — to speak that word, / Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, / All slain, all dead" (III, ii, 122-124).

"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!" (III, ii, 73).

"Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?" (III, ii, 74).

"Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! / Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb" (III, ii, 75-76).

"Thy noble shape is but a form of wax, / Digressing from the valor of a man" (III, iii, 125-126).

"I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye, / 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow" (III, v, 19-20).

"Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb" (III, v, 55).

"Then is it likely thou wilt undertake / A thing like death to chide away this shame" (IV, i, 73).

"No pulse / Shall keep his native progress, but surcease" (IV, i, 96).

"For Venus smiles not in a house of tears" (IV, i, 8).

"Death lies on her like an untimely frost / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field" (IV, v, 28-29).

"Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, / Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak" (IV, v, 31-32).

"Flower as she was, deflowered by him" (IV, v, 37).

"Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. / My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, / And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's" (IV, v, 38-40).

"Let me have / A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear / As will disperse itself through all the veins / That the life-weary taker may fall dead" (V, i, 59-62).

"...And that the trunk may be discharged of breath / As violently as hasty powder fired / Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb" (V, i, 63-65).

"Famine is in thy cheeks, / Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes, / Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back" (V, i, 69-71).

"My poverty, but not my will, consents" (V, i, 75).

"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls . . . Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell" (V, i, 80 & 82).

"Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, / Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, / Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, / And in despite I'll cram thee with more food!" (V, iii, 45-48).

"Shall I believe / That unsubstantial Death is amorous, / And that the lean abhorred monster keeps / Thee here in dark to be his paramour?" (V, iii, 102-105).

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