In Act I, Scene 2 Romeo and Benvolio meet Capulet's servant in the street. The servant has been tasked with giving out invitations for Capulet's party to be held that same night. Unfortunately, the servant has been given a written list but cannot read, so he asks Romeo for help. Romeo reads the list out loud and discovers that Rosaline, the girl he is in love with, has been invited. After the servant leaves, Benvolio...
In Act I, Scene 2 Romeo and Benvolio meet Capulet's servant in the street. The servant has been tasked with giving out invitations for Capulet's party to be held that same night. Unfortunately, the servant has been given a written list but cannot read, so he asks Romeo for help. Romeo reads the list out loud and discovers that Rosaline, the girl he is in love with, has been invited. After the servant leaves, Benvolio suggests that they go to the party and he will show Romeo more beautiful women than Rosaline:
Go thither, and with unattainted eye
Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
Romeo replies that there is no chance that a more beautiful woman exists and that his eyes will be lying to him if there is. He tells Benvolio that he would rather have his tears turn to flames and burn his eyes if they lie to him that way. He claims that even the sun has never before seen any woman as beautiful as Rosaline:
When the devout religion of mine eye
Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires,
And these, who, often drowned, could never die,
Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!
One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.
Later, however, Romeo does see a woman more beautiful than Rosaline when he discovers Juliet and falls instantly in love.
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