Franco Zeffirelli
Leonard Whiting
Olivia Hussey
Nino Rota, music: What is a Youth
first love scene:
if i profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine,
the gentle sin is this:
my lips, two blushing pilgrims,
ready stand to smooth the rough touch
with a gentle 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.
have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
ay, pilgrim, lips are things to use in prayer.
o then, dear saint,
let lips do what hands do;
they pray, grant thou,
lest faith turn to despair.
saints do not move,
though grant for prayers' sake.
then move not, while my prayer's effect i take.
thus from my lips by thine, my sin is purged.
then have my lips the sin that they have took?
sin from my lips!
o trespass sweetly urged!
give me my sin again.
William Shakespeare.