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Romeo & Juliet passages to translate and explicate:
(you may use this paper or attach a separate sheet) Please explain the following dialogue in modern English. Pay particular attention to rewording the sections that are in bold. Explain what the words mean and their context in the story. In other words, (1) explain the whole context and (2) translate the bolded part into modern English. Do not forget to include your version of the bolded text. 1) Act I SCENE V A hall in CAPULET’s house. TYBALT: This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
Come hither, cover’d with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.

2) Act II Scene II
JULIET ’Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
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3) Act III SCENE I
MERCUTIO: I am hurt.
A plague o’ both your houses! I am sped.
Is he gone, and hath nothing?
BENVOLIO: What, art thou hurt?
MERCUTIO: Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, ’tis enough…. ROMEO: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. MERCUTIO: No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but ’tis enough, ’twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I