AcT 2, ScEnE 2 AcT 2 ScEnE 2


Capulet’s orchard. Enter ROMEO


RoMeO He jests1


But, soft!2


at scars that never felt a wound. [JULIET appears above at a window] What light through yonder3


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 maid4


Be not her maid, since she is envious. Her vestal livery5


10 1 window breaks?


art far more fair than she. is but sick and green


And 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.6


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 entreat7


To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there,8


20 Would through the airy region10 her eyes they in her head?


The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars As daylight doth9


a lamp. Her eyes in heaven stream so bright11


That 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!


JuLiEt Ay me! RoMeO [Aside] She speaks! 30


O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art As glorious to this night, being o’er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven12 Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes13 Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him When he bestrides14


the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.


JuLiEt O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou15


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.


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winged messenger of heaven: an angel


white-upturned wondering eyes: the wondering whites of the eyes staring upwards 14 bestrides: steps over


5 jests: mocks/jokes at 2 soft: wait 3 yonder: further/over there 4


her maid: i.e. the moon’s handmaid. Romeo sees Juliet (imagined here as the sun) as more beautiful than Diana (goddess of the moon and chastity)


vestal livery: clothes worn by followers of Vesta. These women were virgins.


6 discourses: speaks


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entreat: beg 8 were there: i.e. in the sky 9 doth: does 10 airy region: sky 11 stream so bright: brightly shine


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Wherefore art thou: Why are you


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