...excited drive to self-consumption with which their forbidden liaison has always been entangled: These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. Romeo 2.5.9-11 Yet, although the streak of self-destructive perversity apparent in Romeo's...

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...in love with Rosaline ! His will had come to the clenching point. Ib. sc. 6. Rom. Do thou but close our hands with holy words. Then love-devouring death...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...

...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...

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...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...

...short minute gives me in her sight. 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 LAURENCE These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,...

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