Friar Lawrence

Question 1

‘weak flower poison hath residence, and medicine power: for this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part, being tasted stays all sense with the heart’

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Question 2

‘Your waverer…I’ll thy assistant be: for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancour to pure love’

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Question 3

‘Violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey is loathsome’

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Question 4

‘Hold, daughter, I do apt a kind of hope, which craves desperate an execution as that is desperate which we would prevent’

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Question 5

‘God, this reverend holy Friar, all our whole city is much bound to him’

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Question 6

‘What if it be a poison which the Friar subtly hath minister’d to have me dead, lest in this marriage he should be dishonour’d because he married me before’

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Question 7

‘Keep her at my cell till Romeo come, poor living corse, clos’d in a dead man’s tomb!’

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Question 8

‘Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead; and Paris too. I’ll dispose of thee among a sisterhood of holy nuns…good Juliet, I dare no longer stay [exit]’

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Question 9

‘Her nurse is privy; and if aught in this miscarried by my fault, let my old life be sacrific’d…unto the rigour of severest law’

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