We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick’st If thou art dun, we’ll draw thee from the mire Tut, dun’s the mouse, the constable’s own word: The game was ne’er so fair, and I am done. Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels,įor I am proverb’d with a grandsire phrase Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.Ī torch for me: let wantons light of heart Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down. If love be rough with you, be rough with love

Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. To soar with his light feathers, and so bound,Īnd, to sink in it, should you burden love So stakes me to the ground I cannot move. Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling We’ll measure them a measure, and be gone. Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spokeīut let them measure us by what they will We’ll have no Cupid hoodwink’d with a scarf, What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse? A street.Įnter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, with five or six Maskers, Torch-bearers, and others All acts & scenes are listed on the Romeo & Juliet original text page, or linked to from the bottom of this page. Shakespeare’s original Romeo & Juliet text is extremely long, so we’ve split the text into one Act & Scene per page. This page contains the original text of Act 1, Scene 4 of Romeo & Juliet. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.

Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.

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