An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man
should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.
should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.
WORD LISTS"Romeo and Juliet" Vocabulary from Act 3Wed Oct 18 13:01:43 EDT 2017
apt
An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man
should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.
consort
Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo.
vile
Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Doth much excuse the appertaining rage To such a greeting
haste
Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher
by the ears? make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out.
plague
A plague o' both your houses!
scorn
That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.
stout
...Underneath whose arm
An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled
garish
All the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
banish
Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished.
fiend
Note the wordplay here -- calling someone both a "fiend" and "angelical" is an oxymoron
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
carrion
More validity,
More honourable state, more courtship lives In carrion-flies than Romeo.
dote
Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,
An hour but married, Tybalt murdered, Doting like me and like me banished, Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair, And fall upon the ground, as I do now, Taking the measure of an unmade grave.
lamentation
Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back
With twenty hundred thousand times more joy Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.
woo
These times of woe afford no time to woo.
beseech
Good father, I beseech you on my knees,
Hear me with patience but to speak a word. |
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