ROMEO [To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine 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 what 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 yours, my sin is purged.
JULIET Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
ROMEO Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.
JULIET You kiss by the book.
10 comments:
boy i miss teaching/reading/exploring and enjoying this play. you've inspired me to dig it out and read it afresh. i can't believe how unstimulated my mind is these days. scary. thanks for the motivation.
This is probably one of the best sets of pick up lines in history. I think "The Flea" by Donne is up there, too, though slightly less ethereal...
ahhhhh, yes. and for a girl like me who gets weak in the knees at the sight of lovely hands as well as at the thought of kissing lovely lips, it is definitely up there with the best set of pick up lines EVER.
i've got to confess though, christy, the flea has always grossed me out. he sounds so slimy, "hey baby, we're already doin' it in the flea. what's a little bit more gonna hurt?”
blach!
jodi, when you guys get settled in here, we should have little get togethers where we read plays and books and eat yummy things that i bake in MY NEW HOUSE!!!!
WHAT?! What are you talking about? Can you call me now? Can I call you and wake the Stewart clan up? What do you mean your new house?! Don't leave me hanging!
yaaaa!!!
a friend who owns some rental property just told me, "you would be doing me a favor if you lived in my house for ---$/month (ridiculously low amount). he has to do some renovations on it and so says it would be hard to rent out to someone else. i'm gonna post more on it but i see it tomorrow for the first time! i'm so excited, so grateful, so happy!!!
...and what are you still doing awake ms. early to bed? not worrying, i hope? i'll call you tomorrow!
hey--congrats! wow : ) that is so awesome! how exciting to go and see it! does this mean a no-go on your old place that's supposed to be fixed up by next month? do you feel sad leaving it?
i don't go to bed very early these days. it's usually between 11-11:30, and every morning i vow to go earlier, but never do. i have no idea, so don't ask.
i'd love to chat tomorrow! : )
they haven't done a damn thing on my old place and things have gotten a little rough here (plus, it's the suburbs, which make me feel ill). so when my mom left my dad again last week and we started to look for a place for her...um ya. let's just do this on the phone, hey?
Angela, I probably should have used the word "most interesting" instead-- yes, "The Flea" is gross, but you have to admit it's very creative. Don't know if it would work on me, but you have to give him points for creativity.
Sadly I've never read that play. Ever since Donald Miller gave his take on it I'm sure alot of people have read it who wouldn't have. Maybe I'll read it when it is somewhat applicable to my uh, situation. Although perhaps Don found a way for the single guy to read it.
I have about three weeks left here. I can hardly wait to start school.
christy - i wonder if it would work on any girl. it's not like he didn't have a different line or two he could whip out if the need arose. crazy guy.
joel - that ol' don miller was quoting shakespeare left right and centre when i saw him in grand rapids, and he DOES confess he's good with the ladies. so ya, i think you should read it BEFORE the need arises, so you can HELP the need arise, when you WANT the need to arise. hee hee hee.
forgive my shameful silliness. it's late.
good night.
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