Romeo and Juliet's First Encounter
Romeo
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,
My lips two blushing pilgrims ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
Romeo
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
Juliet
Ay pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo
O then dear saint, let lips do wht hands do.
They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Juliet
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
Romeo
Then move not while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by thin, my sin is purged.
Juliet
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
Romeo
Sin from my lips?  O trespass sweetly urged.
Give me my sin again.
Juliet
You kiss by th' book.
Nurse
Madam, your mother craves a word with you.
Romeo
What is her mother?
Nurse
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 talked withal.
I tell  you , he that can lay hold of her
Shall have the chinks.
Romeo
Is she a Capulet?  O dear account, my life is my foe's debt.
Benvolio
Away, be gone; the sport is at the best.
Capulet
Nay gentlemen, prepare not to be gone;
We have a trifling foolish banquet towards.
Is it e'en so?  Why then I thank you all.
I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night.
More torches here!  Come on, then, let's to bed.
[
To second Capulet] Ah sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late.
I'll to my rest. [
Exeunt all but Juliet and Nurse]
Juliet
Come hither Nurse.  What is yond gentlemen?
Nurse
The son and heir of old Tiberio.
Juliet
What's he that now is going out of door?
Nurse
Marry I think be young Pertuchio
Juliet
What's he that follows here that would not dance?
Nurse
I know not
Juliet
Go ask his name--if he be married,
My grave is like to be my wedding-bed.
Nurse
His name is Romeo, and a Montague;
The only son of your great enemy.
Juliet
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.