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Metaphor: "transparent heretics"
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Act 1,
Scene 2
Lines 91-94

An explanation of the phrase "transparent heretics" in Act 1, Scene 2 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 1.2 Metaphor: "Transparent heretics"

Romeo

When the devout religion of mine eye
Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fire;
And these who often drowned could never die,
Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!