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Romeo and Juliet
act 1
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English
9th Grade
02/08/2009
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dignity
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status
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where... unclean
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that us, where civilians oassions make their hands unclean [because they have been used for killing]
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but
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except for
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traffic
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business
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carry coals
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to do dirty work
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colliers
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coal dealers [men with dirty jobs]
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and
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if
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choler
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angel
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draw
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pull out swords
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collar
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hangmans noose
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take the wall
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take the best place on the path
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goes to the wall
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is defeated
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poor john
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kind of salted fish, a poor persons food
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tool
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sword
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fear me not
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do not distrust me
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bite my thumb
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insulting gesture
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swashing
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slashing with great force
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heartless hinds
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cowardly hicks
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in spite of
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in defiance of
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mistempered
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used with bad temper
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airy
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light or harmless
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grave beseeming
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dinified as they should be
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cankered
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rusted, diseased
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new abroach
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newley opened
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on part and part
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some on one side some on the other
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ware
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aware
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importuned
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questioned
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so far from sounding
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so far from being sounded for his moood
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shrift
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confession
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in proof
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in reality
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muffled still
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always blindfolded romeo is talking about cupif, who was often depicted as being blindfolded
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more with love
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they enjoyed fighting
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coz
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cousin
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propagate
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increase
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prest
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pressed, burdened
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discreet
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discriminating
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soft
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wait
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sadness
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seriousness
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dians wit
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the cunning of diana the roman goddess f chastity the moon and hunting who was not interested in men
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proof
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armor
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stay
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submit to
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nor ope... gold
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in greek mythology the god zeus visited danae in the form of a shower of golf and danae bore zeus a son
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still
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always
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bliss
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heaven
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call... in question
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bring her beauty to mind
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or else die in debt
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or die trying
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is bound
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is pledged to keep the peace
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reckoning
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reputation
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within her scope of choice
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among all she can choose from
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according
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agreeing
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earth treading stars
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young girls
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fennel
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an herb, capulet compares te young girls to fennel flowers
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find
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understand
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in good time
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just in time
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be hopl by backward turning
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be helped by turning in the opposite direction
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crystal scales
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romeos eyes
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teen
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sorrow
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thous
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thou shalt
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lammastide
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christian church feast held in england on august 1
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laid wormwood to my dug
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applied a bitter substance to her breast to wean the baby
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tetchy
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angry
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how one another lends content
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how one feature makes another look good
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how one another lends content
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how one feature makes another look good
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how one another lends content
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how one feature makes another look good
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for fair without the fair within to hide
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for those who are handsome outwardly also to be handsomely inwardly
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measure
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examine, appraise
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measure them a measure
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dance a dance
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betake.. legs
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to start dancing
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rushes
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the dance floor is covered with rushes, plants with small green flowers
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grandsire phrase
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old mans saying
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spinners'
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spiders'
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traces
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reins and hanresses for a wagon
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hag
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nightmare
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bout
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dance
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makes dainty
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pretends to be shy
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a hall
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clear the floor for dancing
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ward
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minor
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antic face
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hideous mask
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portly
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wellmannered
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choler
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anger
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anon
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at once
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montagues
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romeo, benvolio
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capulets
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juliet, tybalt, nurse, sampson, gregory
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mercutio
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a relative of the prince and friend of romeo
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