Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Rom.  Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear,

That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops—

Jul.  O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,

That monthly changes in her circled orb,

Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.[106:2]

The god of my idolatry.

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.[106:2]

Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be

Ere one can say, "It lightens."