Pilgrims

ROMEO [To Juliet] If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin 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.
Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.
[Kissing her]
JULIET Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
ROMEO Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.
[Kissing her again]
JULIET You kiss by th'book.

Romeo and Juliet (I, v, 92-109)

*I have no idea why I remembered this dialogue, but, well, it brings back good memories. I used to know these lines by heart and thought I was never going to forget them. Yes, they were so meaningful... But then again, I forget eventually.

I'm a Selfish zombie with flu... Which means no KisSINg :(
Hahaha, sorry, I'm on antibiotics.

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