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At the very beginning of the story, the boy spends his days lost in fumes of sighs and in heart’s oppression (1.1, 191, 197). In misery and grief, Romeo struggles to find love. At this moment in the play, the boy does not know the true meaning of love; and believes it is a discreet madness as he is currently “loving”, or doting a woman who will not ope her lap to saint seducing gold (1.1 220, 222). In Act I, scene iv, he still horses around with his friends, the lusty gentlemen who he exposes to that love is too rough, too rude, and too boist’rous (1.4, 25-26, 120).
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