Willam Shakespeare
[1564-1616]
 
       Rom. [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. 
       Jul. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, 
    Which mannerly devotion shows in this: 
    For saints have hands that pilgrims' kiss. 
       Rom. Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? 
       Jul. Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in pray'r. 
       Rom. O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do, 
    They pray-grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. 
       Jul. Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. 
       Rom. The move not while my prayer's effect I take.
 from Romeo and Juliet Act1, scene5
 
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