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Word Nerd: "store"
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Act 1,
Scene 1
Lines 203-211

An explanation of the word "store" in Act 1, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 1.1 Word Nerd: "store"

Romeo

Well, in that hit you miss; she'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And in strong proof of chastity, well armed;
From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed.
She will not stay the siege of loving terms,
Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes,
Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold.                         
O she is rich in beauty, only poor
That when she dies, with beauty dies her store.
Video Transcript: 

RALPH: The word “store” derives from the latin instaurāre, which means to renew or repair.

SARAH: Your stores were your possessions that could produce things you would need in the future, such as livestock that you could breed, or grain seeds, which could be planted.

RALPH: Here Shakespeare is using store in an expanded sense to refer to the whole process of propagation.

SARAH: So when Romeo says, “When she dies with beauty dies her store”…

RALPH: He means that when the object of his affections dies, beauty will die with her.