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"long sword" and "flourishes his blade"
Double Entendre
Act 1,
Scene 1
Lines 70-73

An explanation of the sexual innuendo on “long sword” and “flourishes his blade” in Act 1, Scene 1 of myShakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Capulet

What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!

Lady Capulet

A crutch, a crutch — why call you for a sword?

Capulet

My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,
And flourishes his blade in spite of me.

Capulet calls for his "long sword," and then accuses Montague of "flourish[ing] his blade." These lines hearken back to the earlier wordplay of Sampson and Gregory, whose puns also drew rhetorical connections between fighting and sex.