Romeo and Juliet Lessons and Ideas (my favorites for reluctant and/or struggling readers) An overview of using the documents and material. PreReading Slang dictionary Opinionaire / discussion Why we should learn Shakespeare project (as background on the man and his life and work) Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt Distribute vocabulary as a reference sheet During reading Journals Study guides or Reading logs Prologue Puzzle Prologue STOMP iambic pentameter Shakespeare Insults Draw Queen Mab and the details. Students do a very close reading here to get all the details of Mercutio s description. Create masks and act out the party scene with dance (teach Saints dance) Watch scenes from various video productions (except the newest) After Reading Perform a memorization of monologues or scenes in groups Have them act it out in order as a review of the play. Revisit Opinionaire to see if any opinons changed Write a reflection paper or a letter to next year s students about the reading of the play. Did it get easier / harder? How do you feel you did with your first experience with Shakespeare? What did you learn? Do you feel you understand the language? Did you like it more, or less than you thought you would? Keep the positive ones to show other students the following year. Test on quotes and overall theme OR Watch modern version of Romeo and Juliet (with Leonardo DiCaprio and Clare Danes) Students take notes on how the director made the play work / not work. Then students write a review as a test grade. Additional Resources http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/educators Lots of great lessons on this site with inteactive features to assist. http://www.argo217.k12.il.us/departs/english/blettiere/romeojuliet.htm The study guides for each act on this teacher s site are really good. http://shakespeare.palomar.edu This site offers just about EVERYTHING Shakespeare http://literature.pppst.com/stu/shakespeare.html -- This site has some great powerpoints on Romeo and Juliet and the life and times of Shakespeare
Opinionaire Use the following numbers to rate the statements below. 0 = I have no idea or no opinion regarding the matter. 1 = I strongly disagree 2 = I somewhat disagree. 3 = I somewhat agree. 4 = I strongly agree. Parents know what is best for their children more so than the children themselves. Young people feel emotions more deeply than older people. People who are deeply in love act irrationally. Rage leads to tragedy. Sins of one generation affect the next. People who marry too young are likely to regret it. People have a responsibility to avenge wrongs done against family members. Hate is a more powerful emotion than love. Our lives are governed by our choices more so than by some controlling fate in which we do not participate. People should not marry without the blessing of their friends and family. www.englishteachersfriend.com
Make copies of this page. Cut lines into individual strips. Put students in pairs and give them an envelope with the lines. Have them arrange the lines until it makes sense. Discuss the rhyme scheme of a sonnet as a hint. Walk around and assist them. They will start to understand the language and sonnet form as they try to solve the puzzle. Two 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; Whose 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.
Notes Name: Date: Prologue Why would Shakespeare write in iambic pentameter? What is the purpose of the prologue? Lines Your interpretation Words you don t know /guess meaning 1-4 Questions 5-8 9-14 Difficulty level: (easiest) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (cannot understand at all)
Romeo and Juliet Common Vocabulary NOTE: Some words are combined to keep the rhythm: tis = it is e er = ever o er = over adversary enemy ain- gladly alack- gee (expression of dismay) alas an expression of sadness or regret an- if anon- in a minute art - are aside- little soliloquy attend to wait upon ay - yes but except for don- to put on doth - does ere- before fair- pretty fickle- can t make up your mind forsooth in truth, in fact fray fight/battle go to- stop, get out hath has, have hence from this time forward hither- here humorous- fitful idle- lazy knave young boy or male servant lest - unless marry- by the Virgin Mary a swear word methinks- I think mickle- much nay- no naught - nothing ne er- never o er- over perchance- perhaps, for the chance rancor- hatred sirrah- servant soft- wait suit(or)- proposal, one who proposes thee, thou, thy you thine - your thither- there thyself - yourself wherefore- why ( Wherefore art thou Romeo? means why are you Romeo, a Capulet it does not mean where are you as it is often misquoted.) whither - where woe- sorrow woo- to date zounds- "by God s wounds List other words that are repetitve and troublesome for you. www.englishteachersfriend.com
Shakespearean Insults: combine one word from each of the three columns below, and preface it with "Thou": Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 adjective adjective noun artless base-court apple-john bawdy bat-fowling baggage beslubbering beef-witted barnacle bootless beetle-headed bladder churlish boil-brained boar-pig cockered clapper-clawed bugbear clouted clay-brained bum-bailey craven common-kissing canker-blossom currish crook-pated clack-dish dankish dismal-dreaming clotpole dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb droning doghearted codpiece errant dread-bolted death-token fawning earth-vexing dewberry fobbing elf-skinned flap-dragon froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench frothy fen-sucked flirt-gill gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker goatish fly-bitten fustilarian gorbellied folly-fallen giglet impertinent fool-born gudgeon infectious full-gorged haggard jarring guts-griping harpy loggerheaded half-faced hedge-pig lumpish hasty-witted horn-beast mammering hedge-born hugger-mugger mangled hell-hated joithead mewling idle-headed lewdster paunchy ill-breeding lout pribbling ill-nurtured maggot-pie puking knotty-pated malt-worm puny milk-livered mammet qualling motley-minded measle rank onion-eyed minnow reeky plume-plucked miscreant roguish pottle-deep moldwarp ruttish pox-marked mumble-news saucy reeling-ripe nut-hook spleeny rough-hewn pigeon-egg spongy rude-growing pignut surly rump-fed puttock tottering shard-borne pumpion unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane vain spur-galled scut venomed swag-bellied skainsmate villainous tardy-gaited strumpet warped tickle-brained varlet wayward toad-spotted vassal weedy unchin-snouted whey-face yeasty weather-bitten wagtail
Literary Terms ACT find examples of the following Metaphor comparison made by calling one item another item Scene Line Name: Example (for very long examples write the first few lines the last line) Pun A play on words wherein a word is used to convey two meanings at the same time. Allusion an indirect reference to another famous person, literary work, even or place. Couplet a style of poetry defined as a complete thought written in two lines with rhyming ends Oxymoron a combination of contradictory terms Soliloquy when a character talks to him/herself aloud on stage in order for the audience to know what he/she is thinking Monologue a long character speech to himself, or narrating an account to an audience or character Personification animals, ideas or inorganic objects are given human characteristics
Romeo and Juliet Study Guide ACT ONE -SCENE ONE 1, Between what two families does the feud exist? vs. 2. What decree does the Prince make after the street brawl? 3. What advice does Benvolio give Romeo about Rosaline? ACT ONE -SCENE TWO 1. How does Capulet respond to Paris' proposal to marry Juliet? 2. How do Romeo and Benvolio learn about the Capulet's ball? What do they decide to do? ACT ONE -SCENE THREE 1. How does Juliet feel about getting married? 2. How old is Juliet? What is Lammastide? On what date does it come? ACT ONE - SCENE FOUR 1. When and where does this scene take place? 2. Explain Romeo ' s speech (lines 106-113). ACT ONE - SCENE FIVE 1. Where does this scene take place? 2. Who is Romeo talking about in lines 46-55? Explain the irony in these lines. 3. Why does Tybalt become so upset, and how does Capulet respond to his rage? 4. Who said the following lines and why? A) "is she a Capulet? 0 dear account, my life is my foe s debt." B) "My only love sprung from my only hate Too early seen unknown and known too late."
ACT TWO - SCENE ONE: Explain the dramatic irony in this scene. ACT TWO - SCENE TWO: (This is the most famous scene in the entire play.) 1. Fill in the blanks in this paraphrase of Romeo's soliloquy (lines 1-32) Shh! What is at the? shines through the window like the rises in the. Arise, beautiful sun (Juliet) and replace the who is jealous because you, her maid (Diana - Virgin moon goddess) are than she. Don't be a since the moon is of you. Her innocence is sickly, and only a would keep it. Oh! It's Juliet! I wish she knew that I her. She speaks. but says. How strange. She speaks with her eyes. I'll her. No, I'd better not since she isn't. Two of the in heaven have asked her to twinkle for them while they take care of some. If her eyes were there, her would make the stars seem dull just as outshines a lamp. Her eyes would shine so that the would think it were and begin to. O' I wish that I could touch her. She speaks. 0 speak again bright, for you are as glorious to this, being over my (up at the window) as is an angel of is to who look up and see him when he walks on the and sails on the.
2. Explain Juliet's soliloquy (lines 33-44) 3. How is this an example of dramatic irony? 4. Fill in the blanks in this paraphrase of Juliet's speech (lines 35-106) You know it is or you could see me because you me talking about you. If I followed proper etiquette, I'd I ever said it. But who cares about etiquette! Do you me? Don't say yes unless you really it. If you think that I am too. 1'll play so you can my affections. The truth is I am foolishly in with you, and you might not take me. But me, and I'll myself to be more than those who know how to play hard to. I would have been more I must confess, but since you allude me confess my for you, there is no to be. 5. After Romeo and Juliet vow their love for one another, what do they decide to do and when?
ACT TWO - SCENE THREE This scene opens with Friar Laurence collecting herbs. He is discussing the properties of the herbs and the purposes for which they may be used. This demonstrates Friar Laurence's knowledge of herbs and foreshadows that this knowledge may serve some purpose in future events in the drama. The sky turns as the gives way to. Streaks of speckle the Eastern as the rises in its normal course. Now, before the rises fully and the dew, I must fill this with and. The earth is both the place of and for all of. We find all kinds of growing from the earth; Some are and some, but all are. Plants and and have great. There is nothing on earth so that it does not have some qualities, and nothing so that it cannot be used for. Even goodness itself turns to vice when, and put to good use may appear worthy. Within this lies as well as ; for it has a very pleasing, but if you it, it will you. It is the same with. He is part and part, and when the bad side of his nature is than the good, he'll sooner or later himself. 2. Why does Romeo go to see Friar Laurence? 3. How does Friar Laurence respond to Romeo's request? 4. Why does Friar Laurence consent to Romeo's request?
ACT TWO - SCENE FOUR This scene serves as a contrast to the preceding scene in Friar Laurence's cell. Mercutio and Benvolio are in a merry mood as they walk along talking and laughing about Romeo whom they think is still pining away over Rosaline. Benvolio mentions that Tybalt has sent a challenge to Romeo. Mercutio then gives a long description of Tybalt's eagerness to fight. Romeo comes along in a good mood after his talk with Friar Laurence. They engage in a series of puns matching their wits against each other. Along comes Juliet's nurse and Peter (her servant). 1. For whom is the nurse looking and why? 2. What warning does she give Romeo? ACT TWO - SCENE FIVE Juliet is waiting very impatiently for the nurse's return. Why does she become so irritated when the nurse does return? ACT TWO - SCENE SIX Romeo and Juliet are married in Friar Laurence's cell. How does this scene foreshadow future events?
ACT THREE - SCENE ONE (This scene marks the climax of the drama.) 1. Tybalt, still enraged at Romeo's intrusion at the Capulet's ball, is determined to fight, but Romeo refuses. Why? 2. How does Mercutio get involved, and what happens to him? 3. How does Romeo react to this? 4. What decree does the Prince make? 5. Explain how this scene serves as the climax or turning point of the drama. (Think of all that has happened between Romeo and Juliet so far.) ACT THREE - SCENE TWO 1. Complete this paraphrase of Juliet's soliloquy (lines 1-31) Hurry up, and set so that night will come and can leap into my Lovers don't need to make love. If is blind it best agrees with. Come on, night, so I can learn to the love game. I'll to Romeo, and we'll both lose our. Cover my blushing until I grow enough to act out my true. Come night. Come, and lie with me this night. Give me my and when he cut him up into little, and he will light the so fine that all the will be on love with and not. Oh, I have taken the vow, yet I am still a virgin. it's like a child who has new, but is not allowed to them. 3. Explain the dramatic irony in the beginning of this scene. 4. How does Juliet react to the nurse's news?
5. What does Juliet plan to do with the cords? (See lines 132-137) 6. How does the nurse console her? ACT THREE - SCENE THREE 1. How does Romeo react to the news of his banishment? 2. Complete this paraphrase of Friar Laurence's speech (lines 108-154). Stop! - Are you a? You look like a man but you cry like a and act like a. I'm surprised at you! I thought you were a better man than that. You already killed. Will you now kill and by doing so kill who loves you? What are you about? You're alive aren't you? on you! You are a to your manhood, trying to yourself after vowing to love and Juliet. Your that should guide your body and your love is like a soldier trying to load his and kills himself instead of the enemy. What's wrong with you? is alive. There, you are lucky. would have you but instead you killed him. There, you are lucky. The Prince could have you to, but he only you. There, you are lucky. You have much to be for, but instead of counting your, you sulk and like a spoiled child. Stop sulking, and go to your and her. But don't too long, or you won't be able to get pass the to go to where you can stay until I can tell your about your, reconcile them, and get the to you so you can come back and live happily. Go, and tell to go to bed early because is coming.
ACT THREE - SCENE FOUR 1. How does the action in this scene complicate matters even further? 2. How does Capulet's attitude now differ from his attitude when Paris first came to ask for Juliet's hand in marriage? 3. Explain the dramatic irony in this scene. ACT THREE - SCENE FIVE Day breaks, and the two lovers must part after consummating their wedding vows. Juliet is very reluctant to have Romeo leave her and does not want to admit that it is morning. Finally Romeo leaves and Juliet's mother comes to her chamber. Their conversation about Tybalt's death has Juliet speaking in ambiguous terms. 1. Explain the paradoxical phrases in lines 94-103. 2. How does Capulet react to Juliet's refusal to marry Paris? 3. What advise does the nurse give Juliet? 4. What does Juliet decide to do?
ACT FOUR - SCENE ONE Juliet is no longer the obedient child. With no hope of help from her mother or the nurse she is now taking matters into her own hands. She gives the excuse that since she has displeased her father, she is going to Friar Laurence to confess her sin and be absolved. (Notice how she deals with Paris at the opening of this scene.) Once Paris is gone Juliet pleads with Friar Laurence to help her out of her predicament. Explain in detail the plan they arrange ACT FOUR - SCENE TWO 1. What day is it now? 2. Juliet is so convincing in her deception that her father decides to move the wedding day up from Thursday to Wednesday. What Complication does this change foreshadow?
ACT FOUR - SCENE THREE 1. Complete this paraphrase of Juliet's soliloquy (lines 14-58) Farewell! God knows when we shall again. Oh, I'm so that my runs cold. I'll call them back to me. Nurse! - But what can she do? I must do this alone. Come vial. But what if the potion doesn't and I have to Paris after all? I'll use this on myself first! What if the Friar gave me to kill me so that no one will find out that he already me to Romeo? No, the Friar is proven to be a man. He would not do that. But what if I before comes to take me away? That's scary. Will I not in the vault before comes? Or if I, my imagination will run in that horrible place where the bones of my have been for hundreds of years; where yet recently burned lies in his shroud; where visit at some hours of the. Oh! Wouldn't those horrible and drive a living person? If I will I not be so disturbed in the midst of these hideous that I play with my forefather's or pull burial clothes off, and then in a fit of madness dash out my with my? Oh look! I think I see my cousin's (Tybalt's) looking for who cut him up with his. Stay back, stay back! Romeo, I come! I this (potion) to you. 2. List Juliet's fears as she is about to drink the potion. A. B. C. D. E.
ACT FOUR - SCENE FOUR The Capulets are busy preparing for Juliet's wedding. The Nurse is told to wake Juliet up and get her ready. ACT FOUR - SCENE FIVE The nurse discovers Juliet's apparently lifeless body, and the happy day for the Capulets becomes a day of sorrow.
ACT FIVE - SCENE ONE 1. How does Romeo's dream, which he describes in his opening speech, compare with the news brought to him by Balthasar? 2. How does Romeo convince the apothecary to sell him poison? 3. What does he plan to do with the poison? ACT FIVE - SCENE TWO 1. Explain the conversation between Friar Laurence and Friar John. 2. What does Friar Laurence now plan to do? ACT FIVE - SCENE THREE 1. Why does Paris come to Juliet's burial place? 2. What happens when Romeo and Paris meet? 3. Romeo enters the tomb and sees Juliet. He takes the poison, and no sooner does Romeo die, than Friar Laurence comes along - but too late. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN JULIET WAKES UP?
4. Complete this paraphrase of Friar Laurence's speech. (lines 229-269) I will be, for I don't expect to long. Romeo and Juliet are and. I them in, and that same day was killed and banished. Juliet pined for her bridegroom and not for. You (Capulet) while trying to make her promised her to and would have her to marry him. Then she came to me asking that I to prevent her second marriage, or she would have herself right there in my cell. So I gave her a which was intended to make her. Meanwhile, I wrote a letter to telling him to come to take from her borrowed grave when the potion. But Friar John, who was sent to the, was detained and brought the letter back to me. So I came alone at the time when Juliet was to to take her from the vault and hide her in until I could send another to. When I got here, just a few minutes before should awaken, I found both and dead. Juliet woke up, and I tried to get her to leave. I heard some and was away, but Juliet would not. It seems that she. This is the whole story, and Juliet's also knew of the. If this is all my let me be sacrificed to the full extent of the. 4. Describe the conclusion of the drama and explain how poetic Justice operates in the play. 5. What is Romeo and Juliet's tragic flaw? How does it lead to their destruction?
Group Projects: Make a timeline of the events. Tape pieces of paper together and make it legible and artistic. Show the key events throughout the play with significant quotes relating to each. Character sketches of the main characters. Each main character has their own paper. Write 3 adjectives for each, 1 quote that defines their character, 1 actor/picture to play them, other pictures to show who they are, their personality traits, etc. Literary devices. Use one sheet of paper for each device: Simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, allusion, personification, imagery, pun, and oxymoron. Title the paper clearly. Write a definition of the device, and give an example from the book. Decorate in a way that shows the connection to the quote. 50 question test. Include combination of T/F, Matching, short answer, multiple choice, and short answer questions. Answer all. This must be typed with a separate answer key. All group members are responsible for typing up a different section. Find at least one example of each type of love (see below). Each type should be on a single page with a definition, images, lines and characters as an example. a. unrequited love b. romantic love c. parental love d. friendship e. love of family honor Design a comic book or an illustrated children s book that tells the story of Romeo and Juliet. You may use the words of Shakespeare, or you may write and illustrate a more modern version of the story.
Group Participation Critique Write the names of your group members in the chart below and rate them on their level of participation in your group. This averaged grade will determine the pts possible. This will remain completely confidential. Rate yourself too. Name of group members Score 0 5 0= did nothing 5 =did all that was required on time and cooperatively Comments:
Romeo and Juliet Quotes Identify the speaker and the occasion of the following lines: (Who said it & why?) Quote Who said it? Why? /Purpose "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life." "What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee." "But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart. My will to her consent is but a part." "Compare her face to some that I will show And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. "I'll look to like is looking liking move, But no more deep will I endart mine eye Than your consent gives strength to make it fly." "If ever you disturb our streets again Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. "I fear too early for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin this fearful date With this night's revels, and expire the term Of a despised life closed in my breast By some vile fortune of untimely death." "I would not for the wealth of all this town Here in my house do him disparagement Therefore be patient, take no note of him." "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." "This by his voice must be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy. What, dares the slave Come hither, covered in an antic face..." "My only love sprung from my only hate Too early seen unknown and known too late." "Now old desires doth in his death-bed lie And young affection gapes to be his heir" "Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return"
"What's in a name? That which is called rose By any other name would smell as sweet." "Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou has heard me speak tonight." "Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here'. Is Rosaline that thou didst love so dear So soon forsaken?" "... but let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into a fool's paradise... it were a very gross kind of behavior... for the gentlewoman is young and therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it were an il~ thing..." "Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee Doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting -- villain am I none Therefore farewell, I see thou knowest me not." "Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat to scratch A man to death!.... Why the devil came you Between us? 1 was hurt under your arm. "... And for that offense Immediately do we exile him hence I have an interest in your hates procedings My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding." "Come civil night Thou sober-suited matron all in black. And learn me how to lose a winning match Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods." "0 serpent heart hid in a flowering face Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?... Was ever book containing such vile matter So fairly bound?" "There is no world without Verona walls But purgatory, torture, hell itself Hence banished is banished from the world And the world's exile is death. "Hold thy desperate hand. Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art; Thy tears are womanish, thy wild act denote the unreasonable fury of a beast."
"Madam, if you could find out but a man To bear a poison, I would temper it; That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof, Soon sleep in quiet. 0 how my heart abhors To hear him named and cannot come to him, To wreak the love I bore my cousin Upon his body that hath slaughtered him!" "Hang thee young baggage! disobedient wretch! I tell thee what - get thee to the church a Thursday Or never after look me in the face. I think you are happier in the second match Font excels the first; or if it did not. Your first is dead - or 'twere as good as were." "Take him and cut him out in little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night..." "Thou art as glorious to this night... as the winged messenger of heaven." "The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry" "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East and Juliet is the sun." "0 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." "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." "The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb What is her burying place, that is her womb." "I am no pilot, yet wert thou as far as that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I Should adventure for such merchandise." "this day's black fate on more days doth depend, This but begins the woe others must end." "It was the NIGHTINGALE and not the LARK That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear."
"Go ask his name - If he be married My grave is like to be my wedding bed." "0, 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!" Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone. 'A bears him like a portly gentleman, And to say truth, Verona brags of him To be a virtuous and well governed youth." "What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, No arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. 0, be some other name! "But come, young waverer, come go with me. In one respect I'll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your household's rancor to pure love." "Help me into some house, Benvolio, Or I shall faint. A plague of both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me. I have it, And soundly too. Your houses! Let Romeo hence in haste, Else, when he is found, that hour is his last." "Come cords, come Nurse, I'll to my wedding bed; And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead." "An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend; An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets For by my soul, I'll not acknowledge thee." "Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. Take thou this vial, being then in bed And this distilling liquor drink thou off; When presently through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humor;" "0 woe! 0 woeful, woeful woeful day! Most lamentable day, most woeful day! That ever I did yet behold!" "Her body sleeps in Capel's monument, And her immortal part with angels lives. I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault And presently took post to tell it you. 0, pardon me for bringing these ill news.
"Come cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there I must use thee." "This is that banished haughty Montague That murd'red my love's cousin - with which grief It is supposed the fair creature died - And here is come to do some villanous shame To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him." "What's here? A cup closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them..." "Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight! Grief of my son's exile hath stopped he breath." "I will be brief, for my short date of breath Is not so long as is a tedious tale... and if ought in this miscarriage by my fault, let my old life Be sacrificed, some hour before his time, unto the rigor of severest law. "See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. and I, for winking at your discords too, have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished." " 0 brother Montague, give me thy hand This is my daughter's jointure, for no more Can I demand.