All 3 Uses of
cease
in
Romeo and Juliet
- Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night; It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say It lightens.†
Scene 2.2
- By-and-by I come:— To cease thy suit and leave me to my grief: To-morrow will I send.†
Scene 2.2 *
- Then gave I her, so tutored by my art, A sleeping potion; which so took effect As I intended, for it wrought on her The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo That he should hither come as this dire night, To help to take her from her borrow'd grave, Being the time the potion's force should cease.†
Scene 5.3
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue