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Lady Capulet, Lines 81-96
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Act 1,
Scene 3
Lines 81-96

Lady Capulet performs a speech from Act 1, Scene 3 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 1.3 Performance: Lady Capulet, Lines 81-96

Lady Capulet

What say you? Can you love the gentleman?
This night you shall behold him at our feast.
Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,
And find delight writ there with beauty's pen.
Examine every married lineament,
And see how one another lends content.
And, what obscured in this fair volume lies,
Find written in the margent of his eyes.
This precious book of love, this unbound lover,
To beautify him, only lacks a cover.
The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride
For fair without the fair within to hide.
That book in many's eyes doth share the glory
That in gold clasps lock in the golden story.
So shall you share all that he doth possess,
By having him, making yourself no less.