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Are you reading R&J in the same edition as the Hamlet? Some editors update Elizabethan language to modern spellings and/or modern terms, while others don't. English (and especially spelling conventions) has changed a lot in 400 years.
The editors of this version of R&J made sure to boast about the lack of editing they did. There are footnotes, but those are never the same; if you're reading a lot of footnotes, it tends to interrupt the flow of things.
Pilgrims, hands, lips - did Romeo skillfully convince Juliet to kiss him? That's what I got from that part.
You mean the "If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss" bit? Yes, Juliet is a holy shrine, Romeo's lips are pilgrims to the shrine seeking a blessing, etc. He's clever to get a second kiss with the "sin" line. Kids. Ain't they cute?
They're usually cuter when they don't commit suicide. Just my experience. Haha.
They're cute but dumb, those Elizabethan teenagers. O, irony! You slay me!
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