"account" and "debt"
Metaphor
Act 1,
Scene 5
Lines 110-117
Nurse
[Juliet goes to her mother]
Romeo
Nurse
Romeo
Romeo picks up on the nurse’s mention of money and constructs a financial metaphor. “Account” refers to the adding up of positives and negatives, and to be in someone’s debt means to be at their mercy. Romeo means something like, “What a reckoning of fate, my life is in my enemies’ hands!”