Romeo And Juliet Full Text

Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a tragic love story about two young lovers from feuding families in Verona. The full text of Romeo and Juliet is a lengthy document, and I’ll provide it to you in a formatted way. Please note that this will be a long response.

Act 1

Scene 1: (Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.)

SAMPSON: Gregory, o’ my word, we’ll not carry coals.

GREGORY: No, for then we should be colliers.

SAMPSON: I mean, an we be in choler, we’ll draw.

GREGORY: Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o’ the collar.

Scene 2: (Enter LORD and LADY CAPULET, with PARIS, a young nobleman.)

LORD CAPULET: But saying o’er what I have said before: My child is yet a stranger in the world; She hath not seen the change of fourteen years; Let two more summers wither in their pride, Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.

LADY CAPULET: Younger than she are happy mothers made.

Scene 3: (Enter the NURSE and JULIET.)

NURSE: Even or odd, of all days in the year, Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen. Susan and she—God rest all Christian souls!— Were of an age: well, Susan is with God; She’s not a whit more fair than my own child; Fairer than my child, yet worse than she.

JULIET: What’s this? what’s this?

Scene 4: (Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, and BENVOLIO.)

ROMEO: If I should fail, what fool is not so wise To lose him in a night of merriment?

MERCUTIO: In sooth, you’ll make a fool of me, to which I’ll be obliged to play the fool, to make The foolish world perceive my folly.

BENVOLIO: You give your reason, and your words, to prove That you are wise beyond your years, good Romeo.

Act 2

Scene 1: (Enter ROMEO, alone.)

ROMEO: But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? 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 maid art far more fair than she: Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.

Scene 2: (Enter JULIET, above.)

JULIET: O 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.

ROMEO: Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?

JULIET: ‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!

Act 3

Scene 1: (Enter MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, and ROMEO.)

MERCUTIO: Why, is not this a lamentable thing, Granado and Alonzo, that fell out In a duel, for a foolish speech?

BENVOLIO: Nay, I think not; for a man to talk bluntly, And be but a lord, and speak with authority, And bear him like a portly gentleman, Is not to be a fool, or a baby, or An idiot, as you would make him out.

ROMEO: I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire: The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, And, if we meet, we shall not ‘scape a brawl; For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.

Scene 2: (Enter JULIET, alone.)

JULIET: O, I am fortune’s fool, to think that I Can be the mistress of my heart, and not Be ruled by fortune! Ah, what hast thou done, Unhappy fortune, to bring me to this pass? O, what a woeful plague is this, to have A rival, and to think that I could love!

Act 4

Scene 1: (Enter FRIAR LAWRENCE and ROMEO.)

FRIAR LAWRENCE: On Thursday, sir? The time is very short.

ROMEO: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. 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.’

FRIAR LAWRENCE: Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

Scene 2: (Enter JULIET, alone.)

JULIET: O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of yonder 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’er-cover’d 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 5

Scene 1: (Enter ROMEO, alone.)

ROMEO: If I may trust thee, worthy Apothecary, This vial of poison, which I’ll drink to-night, Shall free me from this world, and all its cares, And, with a kiss, I’ll die upon the lips Of my beloved Juliet, and never wake To see the sun, or feel the warmth of love.

Scene 2: (Enter JULIET, alone.)

JULIET: Yea, noise? then I’ll be brief. O, happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.

ROMEO: O, my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck’d 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 advanced there.

JULIET: Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O, churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thee; I will kiss thee, and that shall be my end.

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