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OpenStudy (anonymous):

How would this be said now? "These times of woe afford no times to woo." [Act III, scene iv] By Paris.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Romeo and juliet: the play.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

well, start with translating the sentence into something that is clearer. Read: replace the words "woe" and "woo". Then modernize the sentence. So, do you know what "woe" and woo" mean?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

It means that one doesn't have the time, during the time of tragedy ("times of woe"), to try to capture someone's heart ("times to woo"). Think of it saying, "We don't have time to court someone with all of this going on now."

OpenStudy (anonymous):

In this time of sadness, there's no time for love/dating.

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