Question

Match each line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with today's language.

"That which we call a rose / By any
She speaks with her eyes.
other name would smell as sweet."
Be not her maid, since she is
envious
Names are just labels, they don't
mean anything

"Her eye discourses, I will answer it.
I wish I could touch her face.
-O! that I were a glove upon that
hand, / That I might touch that cheek."
Don't serve her, she's jealous.

Answer 1

"Be not her maid, since she is envious." -> Don't serve her; she's jealous.

"That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet." -> Names are just labels; they don't mean anything.

"O! that I were a glove upon that hand, / That I might touch that cheek." -> I wish I could touch her face.

"Her eye discourses; I will answer it." -> She speaks with her eyes.