1
'Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night'
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
2
'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'
A Tell of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
In addition, one of favourite parts.
Romeo
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin in this.
My lips, two brushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion show in this.
For saints have hand that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers's kiss
Romeo
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
Juliet
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hand do!
They pray: grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Juliet
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
Romeo
Then move not while my prayer's effect I take.
He kisses her
Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged.
Juliet
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
Romeo
Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.
He kisses her
Juliet
You kiss by th'book.
(Edited by T.J.B.Spencer)
Photography : Lun
Photography : Lun
