Act 3, Scene 2 - Video Performance: Juliet, Lines 73-85a

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Juliet, Lines 73-85a

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Act 3,

Scene 2

Lines 73-85a

Juliet performs a speech from Act 3, Scene 2 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 3.2 Performance: Juliet, Lines 73-85a

O serpent heart hid with a flow'ring face!

Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?

Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical,

Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb,

Despisèd substance of divinest show,

Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,

A damnèd saint, an honorable villain.

O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell

When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend

In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?

Was ever book containing such vile matter

So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell

In such a gorgeous palace!

[Exit]