It is the east, and Juliet is the sun,
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off!" (Act 2, Scene 2)**
* Romeo compares Juliet to the sun, implying that she is far more beautiful and radiant than the moon.
* He refers to the moon as "envious" and "pale with grief," suggesting that it is jealous of Juliet's beauty.
* Romeo urges Juliet to abandon her "vestal livery" (i.e., her role as a virginal maiden), arguing that it is "sick and green" and only worn by fools.
**"I take thee at thy word.
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptiz'd;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo" (Act 2, Scene 2)**
* Romeo declares that he is willing to change his name and identity if Juliet will accept him as her lover.
* He suggests that his name, "Romeo," is insignificant compared to the love he feels for Juliet.
**"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet" (Act 2, Scene 2)**
* Juliet expresses her frustration and despair over the fact that Romeo is a Montague, her family's sworn enemy.
* She urges him to deny his family and name, or at least to swear his love for her, so that she can renounce her own family name.
**"There is no world without Verona walls,
But purgatory, torture, hell itself.
Hence-banished is banish'd from the world,
And world's exile is death" (Act 3, Scene 3)**
* Romeo laments his banishment from Verona, declaring that there is no world outside the city walls for him.
* He sees banishment as a form of death, worse than purgatory or hell itself.
**"O true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die" (Act 5, Scene 3)**
* Romeo takes poison to kill himself after learning of Juliet's death.
* He praises the apothecary for providing him with a quick and effective poison, and dies with a kiss on Juliet's lips.