Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which having, makes them short.

Benvolio: In love?

Romeo: Out–

Benvolio: Of love?

Romeo: Out of her favour, where I am in love.

—Romeo and Juliet,
William Shakespeare

Why is Romeo sad?

What would make the hours short?

What does Romeo mean when he says that he is “out of favor”?

The play, doctor faustus, opens with a prologue. by describing faustus's beginnings as a child "base of stock" and his end as his "waxen wings" melted when "heaven conspired" to stop him, the chorus subtly calls to audience's minds, as they begin to view the play, the commonly held idea of the great chain of being the pact with the devil the seven deadly sins the renaissance man