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"hide his bauble in a hole"
Wordplay
Act 2,
Scene 4
Lines 79-81

Explanation of the use of the word "bauble" in myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 4.

Mercutio

art by art as well as by nature; for this drivelling love is like
a great natural that runs, lolling, up and down to hide his
bauble in a hole.

Mercutio compares someone in love to a mentally disabled person playing with a bauble, a toy. But in Shakespeare’s time a bauble was also the name for the staff carried by the court jester, who often used it for making obscene gestures, which makes Mercutio's line a bawdy bit of wordplay.