ROMEO: Well, in that hit you miss: she’ll not be hit With Cupid’s arrow; she hath Dian’s wit; And, in strong proof of chastity well armed, From love’s weak childish bow she lives unharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold: O, she is rich in beauty, only poor, That when she dies with beauty dies her store. . . . She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow Do I live dead that live to tell it now. A.)The girl Romeo loves is in love with a B.)The girl Romeo loves has died of the plague.
C.) The girl Romeo loves is moving away with her family. D.)The girl Romeo loves wishes to be celibate and not to love any man.
& The question is, Interpret Romeo’s lines to determine the cause of his sadness:
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