All 6 Uses
vex
in
Romeo and Juliet
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- Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs;
Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else?†p. 20.3 * - Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs;
Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else?†p. 23.3 * - Now, afore God, I am so vexed that every part about me quivers.†
p. 104.3
- 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 vex'd:
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.†p. 170.9 - Indeed I never shall be satisfied
With Romeo till I behold him—dead—Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vex'd:
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.†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)