QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Romeo and Juliet ACT/SCENE: 3.2 SPEAKER: Juliet CONTEXT: O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despisèd substance of divinest show,
Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st.
A damnèd saint, an honorable villain! DUTCH: O slangenhart, bij bloemzoet aangezicht!
MORE: Divine=excellent in the highest degree, heavenly. Superl. –st “divinest show”
Show=appearance, aspect
Compleat:
Divine=Godlyk, voortreffelyk
Show (Shew)=Een vertooning
To make a fine shew=Een fraai figuur maaken, ‘er wel uitzien. Topics: deceit, appearance

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