...comparison between two things which the writer makes clear by using words such as 'like' or 'as': / have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash,...which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'it lightens'. Soliloquy: When a character is alone on stage, or separated from the other characters in some way and...

...atmosphere in the early part of the play recalls Juliet's reservations before her fateful date with Romeo. l have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash,...which doth cease to be Ere one can say it lightens. There is much rashness in Much Ado. The speed of the plot allows people to abandon rationality in the...

...same imagery recurs in a premonitory passage in Borneo and Juliet (11.2.117-20), where Juliet says: / have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash,...which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens'. Yet Lysander's lines are not out of place in a romantic comedy, because they are generalized: a reflection...

...I'll believe you. ROMEO. If my heart's dear love JULIET. Wait! Do not swear. Although I joy in you, I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too...unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which does cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night! This bud of love, by summer's ripening...

...second-rate professor of elocution. When she leaned over the balcony and came to those wonderful lines — Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract...sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be This bud of love by summer's ripening breath May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet — she...

...with a 'poetic' vow of love she cuts him short, and despairs of getting simple statements from him : Well do not swear. Although I joy in thee; I have...which doth cease to be Ere one can say, it lightens, (n.ii) The intensity of her love sweeps away these initial intimations of tragedy, and she loses her...

...What shall I swear by? / Jul. Do not swear at all, / Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, / which is the god of my idolatry, / And I'll believe...joy of this contract tonight: / It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden, /Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be / Ere one can say 'It lightens'....

...self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee. ROMEO: If my heart's dear love— JULIET: Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have...sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be obstacle danger armed/hatred sail orbit This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a...

...of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee. ROMEO If my heart's dear love Well, do not swear. Although 1 joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract tonight: It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden, Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens'....

...self, Which is the god of my idolatry. And I'll believe thee. ROMEO If my heart's dear love JULIET Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, I have...which doth cease to be Ere one can say it lightens. (Romeo and Jul1et, 2.1.130-62) Coming so soon after their shared sonnet, this exchange conveys the...