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Her eye discourses : I will answer it.
1 am too bold. Oh, were those eyes m heaven,
They would through the airy region stream so bright,
That birds would sing, and think it were the morn.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
Oh, that I were the glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek !
Juliet.— A h, m e!
R o m e o .— She speaks, she speaks!
Oh, speak again, bright angei 1 for thou art
As glorious to this sight, being o'er my head,
As is a winged messenger of heaven
To the up-turned wondVing eyes of mortals,
When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds,
And sails upon the bosom of the air.
J ulieIt .— Oh, Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou, Romeo?
Deny thy father, and refuse thy name :
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
R omeo.— Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
Juliet.— T is but thy name that is my enem y:
W hat’s in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo callcd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title ! Romeo, quit thy name;
And for that name, which i.s no [jart uf thee,
Take all my self.
R omeo.-— I take thee at thy word !
C;dl rue but love, I will forswear my name
And never more be Romeo.
J u l i e t .— What man art thou, that, thus bescrcened in night
So stumbles!, on my counsel?
RoMJiO.— I know not how to tell thee who 1 am !