...is the unwitting agent of the tragedy. Even so, he does offer a prophetic warning to Romeo : These violent delights have violent ends. And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathesome in his own deliciousness. And in the taste confounds...

...will had come to the clenching point. Ib. sc. 6. Rom. Do thou but close our hands with holy words. Then love-devouring death do what he dare, It is enough I may but call her mine. The precipitancy, which is the character of the play, is well marked in this short scene of waiting...

...transformed into 'the time of love'.4:4 The lovers seek to disregard time and death in their union, 'Then love-devouring death do what he dare It is enough I may but call her mine' (2.5.7-8). Yet this passionate energy also drives the drama to its finale, and Romeo's words link their...

...exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight: Do thou but close our hands with holy words, y FRIAR LAURENCE. These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder,...

...is transformed into 'the time of love'. The lovers seek to disregard time and death in their union, 'Then love-devouring death do what he dare — It is enough I may but call her mine' (2.5.7—8). Yet this passionate energy also drives the drama to its finale, and Romeo's words link...

...finding the path between extremes. Friar Laurence cautions Romeo to love moderately, warning that "These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume" (2.6.9). You may need to exercise self-control or frugality, or relax an overly rigid...

...figure closely recalls the Friar's early concern over the intensity of the lovers' infatuation: "These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume" (2.6.9-11). In evoking this earlier reference, Romeo's words appropriate the scale and...

...of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight. 5 Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare, It is enough I may but call her mine. FRIAR LAWRENCE These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,...

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...constant intertwining of images of love and death, as in Friar Laurence's early warning to Romeo: These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. (II.5.9-11) Romeo will compare the lethal action of the poison running through his veins...