Both Uses of
serpent
in
Romeo and Juliet
- O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!†
Scene 3.2 *
- O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower; Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble; And I will do it without fear or doubt, To liveā¦†
Scene 4.1
Definition:
-
(serpent) a snake