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Falconry
Metaphor
Act 2,
Scene 2
Lines 169b-

Romeo refers to Juliet as a nyas or baby hawk in myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2.

Picking up on Juliet’s earlier metaphor in which she called Romeo a peregrine falcon, he now refers to her as his “nyas”, a baby hawk.