This is part of the famous balcony scene in Act II Scene II, and in this passage, Romeo is expressing his love for Juliet. He does this by comparing her to beautiful things and asking her to forsake her virginity for him. Romeo begins by comparing Juliet to the sun, and Rosaline to the moon, saying how the sun is much brighter than the moon. “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon” and “That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.” Romeo is going so far as to say that Juliet is the sun, which in reality is 400,000 times brighter than the moon, meaning Juliet is much more beautiful than Rosaline. This shows just how quickly Romeo has moved on, as he met Juliet only hours before at a party he didn’t want to go to. The text in this passage