...Romeo! If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. That conscious shrinking from her own confession — Fain would I dwell on form; fain, fain deny What I have spoke! The ingenuous simplicity of her avowal — Or, if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown, and...

...where Juliet assures Romeo: "Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, / Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek / For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight' (Rom. II. ii. 85-87). So the mask conceals the truth of Juliet's modesty, which is written in her face....

...The beautiful passage, — Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night, — was declaimed with the painful precision of a school-girl who has been taught to recite by some...

...Custom requires one kind of behavior; the lovers choose another. As Juliet puts it in the balcony scene: Fain would I dwell on form; fain, fain deny What I...spoke. But farewell compliment. Dost thou love me? . . . In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore thou mayst think my havior light. But trust...

...such merchandise. Thou kno w'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush depaint did groan; And ghosts did shriek and squeal about...beyond all use, And I do fear them! JULIUS CAESAR. Wha I Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay'; And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou...

...the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou has heard me speak tonight. Fain would I dwell on form,...fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! 19 Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say Ay; And I will take thy word; yet, if thou swear'st, Thou...

...does allow skeptical voices to emerge. She doubts Romeo's affections, employing conditional language: "Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'ay', / And I will take thy word. Yet, // thou swear'st, / Thou mayst prove false" (Il.ii. 90-92); "//"that thy bent of love be honourable"...

...face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheeks For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight. 125 Fain would I dwell on form; fain, fain deny What I have spoke. But farewell, compliments. Dost thou love me? Nay, I know thou wilt say 'Ay', And I will take thy word. But if thou...

...the obscurity of the night ('Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face,/ Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek/ For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight', Romeo and Juliet, 2.2.85-7). Besides, for Alcmena the acceptance of her husband's will is independent...