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"young" and "youngest"
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Act 2,
Scene 4
Lines 103-107

An explanation of “young Romeo” in Act 2, Scene 4 of myShakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Nurse

Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I may find the
young Romeo?

Romeo

I can tell you, but young Romeo will be older when
you have found him than he was when you sought him.
I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse.

Romeo teases the Nurse for referring to him as the "young" Romeo. He acknowledges being "young" Romeo for lack of a worse adjective, thus inverting the well-known phrase, "for fault (lack) of a better."