For you and I are past our dancing days.
 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597). copy citation

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Author William Shakespeare
Source Romeo and Juliet
Topic past dancing
Date 1597
Language English
Reference Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 5
Note Written between 1591 and 1595 Capulet line
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1112/pg1112.html

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“Music plays, and they dance. More light, you knaves! and turn the tables up,
And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot. Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well. Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet, For you and I are past our dancing days. How long is't now since last yourself and I Were in a mask? 2. cap. By'r Lady, thirty years.
cap. What, man? 'Tis not so much, 'tis not so much!
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