Romeo: I take you at your word;
Just call me love, and I’ll be new baptized;
From now on, I’ll never be Romeo.
Juliet: What man are you, that, protected by night,
Spy on my secret thoughts?
Romeo: By a name
I know not how to tell you who I am:
My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
Because it is an enemy to you.
Had I it written, I would tear the word.
Juliet: (To herself) My ears have not yet heard a hundred words
From that voice, yet I know the sound.
(To Romeo) Are you not Romeo, and a Montague?
Romeo: Neither, fair maid, if either you dislike.
Juliet: How came you here, tell me, and where from?
The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,
And the place death, considering who you are,
If any of my family find you here.
Romeo: With love’s light wings I went over these walls,
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
Nor angry kinsmen stop a man in love.

TEXT 2 (Act II, Scene IV)

A humorous conversation

The morning after the balcony scene Romeo visits Friar Laurence and, on the way back, he meets his friends Benvolio and Mercutio.
They have a lively, humorous conversation until the Nurse comes.

Enter Benvolio and Mercutio.
Mercutio: Where the devil is Romeo?
Didn’t he go home last night?
Benvolio: Not to his father’s; I spoke with his valet.
Mercutio: Why, that same pale hard-hearted maid, that Rosaline,
Torments him so that he will sure run mad.
Benvolio: Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.
Mercutio: Half himself for love, like a dried herring!
O flesh, flesh, how are you fishified!
Romeo: Good morning to you both. What’s wrong with you?