Can you please translate these lines from Romeo and Juliet........?

What is the present day translation for each line? In act 3. Scene 2. lines 73-85:



O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!

Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?

Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!

Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!

Despised substance of divinest show!

Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,

A damned saint, an honourable villain!--

O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell

When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend

In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?--

Was ever book containing such vile matter

So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell

In such a gorgeous palace!

Can you please translate these lines from Romeo and Juliet........?
Oh, he's like a snake disguised as a flower. Did a dragon ever hide in such a beautiful cave? He's a beautiful tyrant and a fiendish angel! He's a raven with the feathers of the dove. He's a lamb who hunts like a wolf! I hate him, yet he seemed the most wonderful man. He's turned out to be the exact opposite of what he seemed. He's a saint who should be damned. He's a villain who seemed honorable. Oh nature, what were you doing in hell? Why did you put the soul of a criminal in the perfect body of a man? Was there ever such an evil book with such a beautiful cover? Oh, I can't believe the deepest evil lurked inside something so beautiful!







no fear shakespeare!!!
Reply:although it has been a long time since I studied this in drama in high school, I believe it is Romeo talking about Juliet's brother

for example, line one

"oh serpent heart, hid with a flowering face"

is someone who smiles to your face, but is really a hateful liar... sorry I can't help more
Reply:Most of these are about something sinister hid behind something beautiful

Contrasted with things that are good (saints, angels) actually being bad (tryant, damned)
Reply:I'm thinking ' a bad person giving a conflicting impression of being an angel.'



GGGU's english wasn't like it is today!
Reply:I'm pretty sure that sparknotes has translated Romeo and Juliet into everyday English.

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