But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?/It is the East, and Juliet is the sun/Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,/Who is already sick and pale with grief/That though her maid art far more fair than she./Be not her maid, since she is envious."

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Kathryn Reyes

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24 September, 04:34

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?/It is the East, and Juliet is the sun/Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,/Who is already sick and pale with grief/That though her maid art far more fair than she./Be not her maid, since she is envious."

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Scott Ferguson · Answer 1

This is an excerpt from Romeo and Juliet. Romeo compares Juliet to the sun. He means Juliet is just as beautiful as the sun, and hence the moon is Rosaline, but Juliet is much more beautiful and ends up making Romeo's anguish move away from Rosaline.