If I profane with my unworthiest handThis holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready standTo smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
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.
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do.They pray: grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Romeo pulls Juliet aside from the Capulet party.
Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take.
Juliets hand meet with Romeos
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
*kiss*
*kiss*
Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged!Give me my sin again.