All 3 Uses
vex
in
Romeo and Juliet
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- Why, such is love's transgression.
Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,
Which thou wilt propagate to have it pressed
With more of thine. This love that thou hast shown
Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.
Farewell, my coz.†p. 23.3vexed = annoyed - Now, afore God, I am so vexed that every part about me quivers.†
p. 101.1 *
- Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
With Romeo till I behold him—dead—
Is my poor heart, so for a kinsman vexed.
Madam, if you could find out but a man
To bear a poison, I would temper it,
That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,
Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors
To hear him named and cannot come to him
To wreak the love I bore my cousin
Upon his body that hath slaughtered him.†p. 163.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(vex) to annoy, worry, or frustrate -- especially by being difficult or persistent
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)