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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1]

Montague

164

I neither know it nor can learn of him.

2

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1]

Montague

166

Both by myself and many other friends:
But he, his own affections' counsellor,
Is to himself—I will not say how true—
But to himself so secret and so close,
So far from sounding and discovery,
As is the bud bit with an envious worm,
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow.
We would as willingly give cure as know.

3

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 2]

Servant

311

Find them out whose names are written here! It is
written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his
yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with
his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am
sent to find those persons whose names are here
writ, and can never find what names the writing
person hath here writ. I must to the learned.—In good time.

4

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 2]

Servant

332

God gi' god-den. I pray, sir, can you read?

5

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 2]

Servant

334

Perhaps you have learned it without book: but, I
pray, can you read any thing you see?

6

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 2]

Romeo

338

Stay, fellow; I can read.
[Reads]
'Signior Martino and his wife and daughters;
County Anselme and his beauteous sisters; the lady
widow of Vitravio; Signior Placentio and his lovely
nieces; Mercutio and his brother Valentine; mine
uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters; my fair niece
Rosaline; Livia; Signior Valentio and his cousin
Tybalt, Lucio and the lively Helena.' A fair
assembly: whither should they come?

7

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 3]

Nurse

394

Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.

8

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 3]

Lady Capulet

464

What say you? can you love the gentleman?
This night you shall behold him at our feast;
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.
This precious book of love, this unbound lover,
To beautify him, only lacks a cover:
The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride
For fair without the fair within to hide:
That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story;
So shall you share all that he doth possess,
By having him, making yourself no less.

9

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 3]

Lady Capulet

481

Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?

10

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 5]

Nurse

740

Marry, bachelor,
Her mother is the lady of the house,
And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous
I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal;
I tell you, he that can lay hold of her
Shall have the chinks.

11

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 1]

Romeo

796

Can I go forward when my heart is here?
Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.

12

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 2]

Romeo

915

With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do that dares love attempt;
Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.

13

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 2]

Juliet

967

Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this contract to-night:
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!
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest
Come to thy heart as that within my breast!

14

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Mercutio

1168

Any man that can write may answer a letter.

15

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Mercutio

1177

More than prince of cats, I can tell you. O, he is
the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as
you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and
proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and
the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk
button, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of the
very first house, of the first and second cause:
ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the
hai!

16

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Mercutio

1209

The ship, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?

17

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Nurse

1271

By my troth, it is well said; 'for himself to mar,'
quoth a'? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I
may find the young Romeo?

18

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Romeo

1274

I can tell you; but young Romeo will be older when
you have found him than he was when you sought him:
I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse.

19

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 5]

Nurse

1406

Jesu, what haste? can you not stay awhile?
Do you not see that I am out of breath?

20

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 6]

Romeo

1461

Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight:
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine.