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"more value...than to your face"
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Act 4,
Scene 1
Lines 27-28

An explanation around the word "value" as used by Juliet in myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Scene 1.

Juliet

If I do so, it will be of more price
Being spoke behind your back than to your face.

Any confession Juliet would make to the priest would have more meaning (value) than the ambiguous confession she’s made to Paris that she’s in love with him.