romeo & juliet act IV

• Venus


  goddess of love
• pensive


  sorrowful, sad
• prorogue


  postpone
• charnel house

  house for storing the bones of the dead
• harlotry


  good-for-nothing
• mandrakes

  plants whose forked roots resemble the human body, shriek when torn out
• beguiled


  disappointed, cheated
• promotion


  Material advancement
• she is well

  “she is happy in heaven” someone had died
• office


  function
• sullen dirges


  mournful funeral songs