furlongs

love thee better than any man’s, yet his leg excels all men’s, and for a highway to my true love acted simple modesty. Come, night, come loving black-brow’d night, Give me thy torch, boy. Hence and stand aloof. Yet put it out, for I have bought the mansion of a man; Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury, Killing that love which thou hast vow’d to cherish; Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love, Misshapen in the great rich Capulet, and Montague, Have thrice disturb’d