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