In the space below, do your best to write a modern

ROMEO translation of Romeo and Juliet’s first lines to each other.

If I profane with my unworthiest
hand Before you do that: What is interesting about the
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is conversation between Romeo and Juliet? Can you tell
this: what it is?
My lips, two blushing pilgrims,
ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a Translation:
tender kiss.
JULIET Good traveler, you are doing wrong by your hand
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your
hand too much, Pilgrims touch saints hands
Which mannerly devotion shows in
this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims’ Do younot have lips like a saint and holy staues
hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’
kiss.
ROMEO The lips that you use for prayer are the same you use for
Have not saints lips, and holy kissing
palmers too?
JULIET
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use Let your lips do what your hand is doing
in prayer.
ROMEO Then pray if I grant your request faith turn into dispare
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what
hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn Saint never move for any reaon ever
to despair.
JULIET
Saints do not move, though grant for
Then don’t move while I pray
prayers’ sake.
ROMEO Then, my lips and your, my sin is destroyed
Then move not, while my prayer’s
effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin
is purged. Then kiss me for the sin that they have
JULIET Sin from the lip? Gladly!
Then have my lips the sin that they
have took. Give me guilt again
ROMEO
Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly
urged!
Give me my sin again.
JULIET
You kiss by the book.