"tomb" and "womb"MetaphorAct 2,Scene 3Lines 9-14An explanation of the “earth” metaphor in Act 2, Scene 3 of myShakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb; What is her burying grave, that is her womb. And from her womb children of diverse kind We, sucking on her natural bosom, find; Many for many virtues excellent, None but for some, and yet all different. Mother earth is nature's womb, but is also nature's tomb, where we bury the dead.