1. Abram: “Do you bite your thumb at us, sire?”
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Abram: “Do you bite your thumb at us, sire?”
Sampson: [whispered to Gregory] “Is the law of our side if I say ‘Ay’?”

2. Two households, both alike in dignity,
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Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Who misadverntured piteous overthrow
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.

3. “I fear, too early for my mind misgives
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“I fear, too early for my mind misgives
Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,
Shall bitterly begin this fearful date with this night’s revels…
By some vile forfeit of untimely death?

4. “No less! Nay, bigger. Women grow by men.”
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“No less! Nay, bigger. Women grow by men.”

5. What light through yonder window breaks?
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“But soft!
What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!”

6. “She’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrows, She hath Dian’s wit…”
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“She’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrows,
She hath Dian’s wit…”

7. “Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon,
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“Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief.”

8. “Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
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“Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear—
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
So show a snowy dove trooping with crows
As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.”

9. “Content thee, gentle Coz, let him alone,
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“Content thee, gentle Coz, let him alone,
He bears him like a portly gentleman,
And, to say truth, Verona brags of him
To be a virtuous and well-governed youth.”

10. “O single-soled jest, solely singular for the singleness”
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“O single-soled jest, solely singular for the singleness”

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“A sail, a sail!”

12. I do protest I never injured thee,
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I do protest I never injured thee,
But love thee better than thou canst devise
Till thou shalt know the reason of my love.
And so, good Capulet—which name I tender
As dearly as mine own—be satisfied.

13. “A thousand times good night.”
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“A thousand times good night.”

14. “The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night”
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“The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night”

15. No, ‘tis not so deep as a well Nor so wide as a church door,
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No, ‘tis not so deep as a well
Nor so wide as a church door,
But ‘tis enough, ‘twill serve.
Ask for me tomorrow
And you shall find me a grave man. . .
A plague o’ both your houses!

16. In carrion flies than Romeo. They may seize
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. . .more courtship lives
In carrion flies than Romeo. They may seize
On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s hand
And steal immortal blessing from her lips. . .
But Romeo may not—he is banished.

17. Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender
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Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender
Of my child’s love. I think she will be ruled
In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not.

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19. Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave!
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Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave!

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21. Oh, serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
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Oh, serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave!
Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st,
A damned saint, an honorable villain!

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What do we call a play that describes the downfall of a good character which is caused by his own actions?

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What do we call a noble character who we like but who causes his own downfall or death?

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Shakespeare wrote all of his plays in unrhymed iambic pentameter. What do we call this type of poetry?