My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; The more I give to thee the more I have, for both are infinite.
William Shakespeare
- Author
- William Shakespeare
- Genres
- tragedy, melodrama
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'Wherefore art thou Romeo?' is the most misread line in English drama: wherefore means why, not where -- Juliet is asking why he has to be a Montague, which is why the speech runs straight into 'What's in a name?'. The play gets quoted as pure romance, but Shakespeare salts the love poetry with dread: 'O! I am Fortune's fool' is Romeo realizing, mid-play, that the story has already turned. Both registers are on this page.
O! I am Fortune’s fool.
William Shakespeare
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
William Shakespeare
Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace!
William Shakespeare
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die.
William Shakespeare