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Sonnet<br>Act 1 Scene 5, Romeo & Juliet<br>William Shakespeare<br><br>ROMEO:<br>If I profane with my unworthiest hand <br>This holy shrine, the gentle sin (fine) is this: <br>My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand <br>To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. <br><br>JULIET;<br>Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, <br>Which mannerly devotion shows in this; <br>For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, <br>And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. <br><br>ROMEO: <br>Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? <br><br>JULIET:<br>Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. <br><br>ROMEO:<br>O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; <br>They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. <br><br>JULIET: <br>Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. <br><br>ROMEO:<br>Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. <br>(He kisses her.)<br>Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.<br><br>JULIET<br>Then have my lips the sin that they have to...