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Romeo has a prophetic dream that "my mind misgives / some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / shall bitterly begin his fearful date / with this night's revels and expire the term / of a despised life, closed in my breast / by some vile forfeit of untimely death" (RJ 1.5.113-118) = cause / effect = going to the party will lead to his death somehow
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Morning, before 9am.
"Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?" (1.1.42) -
Just before 9am.
"Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, / profaners of this neighbor-stained steel--" ...
"Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word / by thee old Capulet, and Montague / have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets..."
"If ever you disturb our streets again, / your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace" (RJ 1.1.77-99) -
Around 9am.
Ben: "In love?"
Rom: "Out."
Ben: "Of love?"
Rom: "Out of her favor where I am in love." (RJ 1.1.163-166) -
Afternoon.
Cap: "But saying o'er what I have said before: / my child is yet a stranger in the world / she hath not seen the change of fourteen years; / let two more summers wither in their pride / ere we may think her ripe to be a bride" (RJ 1.2.7-11) -
Afternoon.
Cap; "Go, sirrah, trudge about / through fair Verona; find those persons out / whose names are written there, and to them say / my house and welcome on their pleasure stay." -
Afternoon.
Servant: "I pray, sir, can you read?"
Rom: "Ay, mine own fortune in my misery."
Servant: "Can you read anything you see?"
Rom: "Ay, if I know the letters and the language." (RJ 1.2.59-63) -
Late afternoon.
LCap: "How stands your disposition to be married?"
Jul: "It is an honor that I dream not of." (1.3.69-70) -
Evening.
Cap: "Welcome, gentlemen!...How long is't now since last yourself and I were in a mask?" (RJ 1.5.15, 31-32) -
Late evening.
Tyb: "This by his voice should be a Montague / Fetch me my rapier boy. What, dares the slave / come hither, cover'd with an antic face / to fleer and scorn at our solemnity?" (RJ 1.5.56-59) -
Late evening.
Rom: "Is she a Capulet? O dear account! my life is my foe's debt." -
Midnight.
Rom: "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?" (RJ 2.2.3)
Jul: "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" (RJ 2.2.35) -
2 or 3am.
Jul: "Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. / If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow." (RJ 2.2.149-150) -
5 or 6am.
Rom: "Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set / on the fair daughter of rich Capulet ... this I pray / that thou consent to marry us today" (RJ 2.3.58-59, 64-65) -
Around 9am. Nurse: "If ye should lead her in a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior, as they say, for the gentle woman is young; and therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be off'red to any gentlewoman, and a very weak dealing." (RJ 2.4.152-156)
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Noon. Nurse: "Hie you hence to Friar Lawrence' cell / there stays a husband to make you a wife." (RJ 2.5.70-71)
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Around 1pm. Friar: "These violent delights have violent ends / and in their triumph die, like fire and powder / which, as they kiss, consume." (RJ 2.6.9-10)
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After 2pm Mercutio: "Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm." (RJ 3.1.103)
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After 2pm. Romeo: "Either thou or I, or both, must go with him!" (RJ 3.1.130)
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Early evening. Prince: "Immediately do we exile him hence." (RJ 3.1.193)
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Late evening. Paris: "These times of woe afford no time to woo." (RJ 3.4.8)
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Late evening. Friar: "Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. / Go get thee to thy love, as was decreed, / ascend her chamber hence and comfort her / but look thou stay not till the watch be set / for then thou canst not pass to Mantua / where thou shalt live till we can find a time / to blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, / beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back / with twenty hundred thousand times more joy / than thou wen'st forth in lamentation." (RJ 3.3.151-160)
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Late morning. Friar: "On Thursday, sir? The time is very short."
Paris: "My father Capulet will have it so." (RJ 4.1.1-2) -
Early morning. Jul: "Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day." (RJ 3.5.1)
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Morning. Cap: "An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend. / And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, / for by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee / nor what is mine shall never do thee good." (RJ 3.5.200-202).
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Morning. Jul: "Speak'st thou from thy heart?"
Nurse: "And from my soul too, / else beshrew them both."
Jul: "Amen." (RJ 3.5.236-239) -
Late morning. Friar: "I do spy a kind of hope / which craves as desperate an execution / as that is desperate which we would prevent...in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death / thou shalt continue two and forty hours..." (RJ 4.1.69-71, 105-106).
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Afternoon. Cap: "How now, my headstrong? Where have you been gadding?"
Jul: "Pardon, I beseech you. Henceforward, I am ever rul'd by you."
Cap: "Send for the County. Go tell him of this. / We'll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning." (RJ 4.2. 16, 22-25) -
Evening (between 8 and 9pm) Jul: "What if this mixture do not work at all? / Shall I be married then to-morrow morning? / No, no! This shall forbid it. Lie thou there. (Lays down a dagger.) (RJ 4.3.22-24)
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Late evening. Rom: "My dreams presage some joyful news at hand...I dreamt my lady came and found me dead / and breathed such life with kisses in my lips / that I reviv'd and was an emperor." (RJ 5.1.2, 6-9).
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3am. Cap: "Look for baked meats, good Angelica; / spare not the cost." (RJ 4.4.4-5)
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Morning. Nurse: "Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady's dead!" (RJ 4.5.15)
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Morning. Friar: "Heaven and yourself / had part in this fair maid! now heaven hath all / and all the better it is for the maid." (RJ 4.5.70-71)
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Late evening. Rom: "Stay not, be gone. Live, and hereafter say / a madman's mercy bid thee run away." (RJ 5.3.66-67)
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Morning. Rom: "How fares my Juliet? That I ask again, / for nothing can be ill if she be well."
Bal: "Then she is well, and nothing can be ill. Her body sleeps in Capel's monument." -
Afternoon. Apoth: "Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law / is death to any he that utters them."
Rom: "I pay thy poverty and not thy will." (RJ 5.1.69-70, 79) -
Late evening. Friar John: "I could not send it -- here it is again -- nor get a messenger to bring it thee / so fearful were they of infection."
Friar Lawrence: "Unhappy fortune! The letter was not nice, but full of charge / of dear import, and the neglecting it / may do much danger." (RJ 5.2.14-20) -
Late evening. Paris: "Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew." (RJ 5.3.12)
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Late evening. Rom: "Here's to my love. O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss, I die." (RJ 5.3.119-120).
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Late evening. Friar: "Romeo! O pale! Who else? What, Paris too? And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour is guilty of this lamentable chance!" (RJ 5.3.149-151).
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1 or 2am. Jul: "Oh comfortable friar! where is my lord?"
Friar: "A greater power than we can contradict / hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away / Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead / and Paris too." (RJ 5.3.153, 158-161). -
1 or 2am. Friar; "Stay not to question, for the watch is coming. / Come, go, good Juliet. I dare no longer stay." (RJ 5.3.163-164)
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1 or 2am Jul: "Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust and let me die." (RJ 5.3.174-175).
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Morning. Montague: "Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight! / Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath." (RJ 5.3.221-222)
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Morning. Friar: "I am the greatest, able to do least / yet most suspected, as the time and place / doth make against me, of this direful murder / and here I stand, both to impeach and purge / myself condemned and myself excus'd." (RJ 5.3.234-238)
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Morning. Cap: "O brother Montague, give me thy hand. / This is my daughter's jointure, for no more / can I demand." (RJ 5.3.307-308).
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Morning. Prince: "A glooming peace this morning with it brings. / The sun for sorrow will not show his head. / Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. / some shall be pardoned, some punished. / for never was a story of more woe / than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
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Nurse: "Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen" (RJ 1.3.21)