

That birds would sing and think it were not night.

Would through the airy region stream so bright

The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,Īs daylight doth a lamp her eyes in heaven What if her eyes were there, they in her head? To twinkle in their spheres till they return. Having some business, do entreat her eyes Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, I am too bold, ’tis not to me she speaks: She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that? That thou her maid art far more fair than she:Īnd none but fools do wear it cast it off. He jests at scars that never felt a wound.īut, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?Īrise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, All acts & scenes are listed on the Romeo & Juliet original text page, or linked to from the bottom of this page. Shakespeare’s original Romeo & Juliet text is extremely long, so we’ve split the text into one Act & Scene per page.

This page contains the original text of Act 2, Scene 2 of Romeo & Juliet. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.
