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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]
The elaborate banter about saints and palmers and prayers is a kind of flirtatious, lightly blasphemous mutual testing. Like the formal structure, that witty teasing suggests both the silliness of love and its tremendous power.
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(Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" is published by Norton. Copyright 1997 by Norton)
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