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"fettle your fine joints"
Metaphor
Act 3,
Scene 5
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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.