The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love. (9)

The fearful ... love, the terrible course of their love marked out for death; for passage, cp. T.C. ii.3.140, "The passage and whole carriage of this action Rode on his tide."

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Ed. K. Deighton. New York: MacMillan and Co., 1903. Shakespeare Online. 20 Aug. 2010. (date when you accessed the information) < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/romeoglosspassage_1_1.html >.

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