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Read the following exchange between Romeo and Juliet from act I of Romeo and Juliet. What does the excerpt reveal about the love between the two young people?


ROMEO: (to JULIET) If I profane with my unworthiest hand

This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.


JULIET: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,

Which mannerly devotion shows in this;

For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,

And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.


ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?


JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ATheir love is based on both physical and emotional attraction.
BTheir love is shallow and based on defying their families.
CTheir love is driven by their intellectual needs.
DTheir love is instant and illogical.