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"a rhyme I learned..."
Discussion
Act 1,
Scene 5
Lines 141a-142a

Discussion around Juliet who is trying to distract her nurse toward the end of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5.

Nurse

What's this? What's this?

Juliet

                                         A rhyme I learned even now
Of one I danced withal.

Juliet is trying to keep the nurse from being suspicious by saying that the rhyme she has just recited is a poem she learned from one of the young gentlemen with whom she has danced.