Both Uses
revel
in
Romeo and Juliet
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- I fear too early, for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels, and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.†p. 49.5 * - For hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,
It may be thought we held him carelessly,
Being our kinsman, if we revel much.†p. 155.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(revel) to take delight in; or to party or celebrate -- especially in a noisy way
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely today (though common in classic literature), revel can be used as a noun that is a synonym for party -- as when Shakespeare wrote "I delight in masques and revels sometimes."