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Romeo and Juliet, Lines 92-110
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Act 1,
Scene 5
Lines 92-110

Romeo and Juliet perform an excerpt of Act 1, Scene 5 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 1.5 Performance: Romeo and Juliet, Lines 92-110

Romeo

If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:
[Romeo takes Juliet’s hand]
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;
[Juliet places the palm of her hand against Romeo’s]
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.
[He kisses her]
Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.

Juliet

Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

Romeo

Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.
[He kisses her again]

Juliet

                                        You kiss by th' book.
[Juliet’s nurse approaches the two lovers]

Nurse

Madam, your mother craves a word with you.