Directions: For each of the following quotes:

1. identify the speaker
2. explain what the quote means, in your own words
3. give the occasion of the quote
4. reveal how it contributes to either theme, imagery, foreshadowing, plot, characterization, or any other literary technique.

Act I

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1. "What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word
   As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee."
   (Act I, scene i)
   
   
2. " ... O me! What fray was here?
   Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
   Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.
   Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
   O anything, of nothing first created!
   O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
   Misshapen chaos of well seeming forms,
   Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
   Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
   This love feel I, that feel no love in this."
   (Act I, scene i)
   
   
3. "I fear, too early; for my mind misgives
   Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
   Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
   With this night's revels and expire the term
   Of a despisèd life, closed in my breast,
   By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
   But he that hath the steerage of my course
   Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen!"
   (Act I, scene iv)

Act II

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1. "I have no joy of this contract to-night:
   It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden
   Too like the lightening, which doth close to be
   Ere one can say 'It lightens.'"
   (Act II, scene ii)
   
   
2. "Within the infant rind of this small flower
   Poison hath residence, and medicine power:
   For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part,
   Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart."
   (Act II, scene iii)
   
   
3. "These violent delights have violent ends,
   And in their triumph die; like fire and powder
   Which as they kiss consume..."
   (Act II, scene vi)

Act III

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1. "But look thou stay not till the watch be set,
   For then thou canst not pass to Mantua:
   Where thou shalt live till we can find a time
   To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
   Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back
   With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
   Than thou went'st forth in lamentation."
   (Act III, scene iii)
   
   
2. "Then since the case so stands as now it doth,
   I think it best you married with the county.
   O, he's a lovely gentleman!
   Romeo's a dishclout to him..."
   (Act III, scene v)
   
   
3. "Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
   As one dead in the bottom of the tomb:
   Either my eyesight fails or thou look'st pale."
   (Act III, scene v)
   
   
4. "I would the fool were married to her grave!"
   (Act III, scene v)
   
   
5. "Night's candles are burnt out and Jocund day
   Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops:
   I must be gone and live, or stay and die."
   (Act III, scene v)

Act IV

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1. "O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris.
   From off the battlements of any tower,
   Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk
   Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears,
   Or hide me nightly in a charnel house,
   O'ercovered quite with dead men's rattling bones,
   With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
   Or bid me go into a new-made grave
   And hide me with a dead man in his shroud-
   Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble-
   And I will do it without fear or doubt,
   To live an unstained wife to my sweet love."
   (Act IV, scene i)
   
   
2. "O look! Methinks I see my cousin's ghost
   Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body
   Upon a rapier's point. Stay, Tybalt, stay!
   Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, I drink to thee."
   (Act IV, scene iii)
   
   
3. "Ha! let me see her. Out alas! She's cold,
   Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;
   Life and these lips have long been separated.
   Death lies on her like an untimely frost
   Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."
   (Act IV, scene v)

Act V

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1. "There is thy gold - worse poison to men's souls,
   Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
   Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
   I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.
   Farewell. Buy food and get thyself in flesh.
   Come, cordial and not poison, go with me
   To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee."
   (Act V, scene i)
   
   
2. "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,
   Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
   Thou art not conquered. Beauty's ensign yet
   Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
   And death's pale flag is not advancèd there."
   (Act V, scene iii)
   
   
3. "... Here, here will I remain
   With worms that are thy chambermaids. O, here
   Will I set up my everlasting rest
   And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
   From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
   Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you
   The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
   A dateless bargain to engrossing death!"
   (Act V, scene iii)
   
   
4. "A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd; For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." (Act V, scene iii)