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"fettle your fine joints"

Metaphor

Act 3,

Scene 5

Lines 153-

A metaphor of "fettle" in myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5.

To fettle means to groom a horse. This metaphor reflects the authority that Lord Capulet thinks he rightly should have over his daughter.

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