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"Blind is his love"
Allusion
Act 2,
Scene 1
Lines 31-39

An explanation of the allusion to “love is blind” in Act 2, Scene 1 of myShakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Benvolio

Come, he hath hid himself among these trees,               
To be consorted with the humorous night.
Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.

Mercutio

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
Now will he sit under a medlar tree,
And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
As maids call medlars when they laugh alone.
Romeo, that she were, O, that she were
An open-arse, or thou a popp’rin pear!

The line echoes the familiar proverb, "love is blind." As Benvolio puts it, since Romeo's love is blind, it does just as well in the darkness of the orchard.