R&J: Figurative Language

Samson: Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.

Gregory: No, for then we should be colliers.

Sampson: I mean, an we be in choler we'll draw.

Gregory: Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.

(I, i, 1-4).

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"O brawling love, O loving hate . . . heavy lightness, serious vanity" (I, i, 171 & 173).

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"Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health" (I, i, 175).

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"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs — / Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; / Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears. / What is it else? A madness most discreet" (I, i, 185-188).

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"She'll not be hit / With Cupid's arrow. She hath Diana's wit, / And in strong proof of chastity, well arm'd" (V, i, 203-205).

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"From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed" (V, i, 206)

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"The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she" (I, ii, 14).

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"Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, / And find delight writ there with beauty's pen" (I, iii, 83-84).

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"Lady, such a man / As all the world -why, he's a man of wax" (I, iii, 77-78).

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"You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead / So stakes me to the ground I cannot move" (I, iv, 12-14).

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