"wanton"LanguageAct 2,Scene 5Lines 67-73An explanation of the word “wanton” in Act 2, Scene 5 of myShakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Nurse Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell; There stays a husband to make you a wife. Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks, They'll be in scarlet straight at any news. Hie you to church; I must another way, To fetch a ladder, by the which your love Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark. The Nurse simply means excited, but "wanton" has a sexual connotation.
