jaunce trudge up and down.
jealous hood jealous wife. Capulet is humorously responding to his wife's remarks about his past.
jealous suspicious.
Jove king of the Roman gods.
keepers guards, as of prisoners.
kill your joys kill your children and turn your joy to sorrow.
laid wormwood to my dug rubbed wormwood on my nipple: a method of weaning children. The Nurse's role when Juliet was a young child was to act as her wet-nurse and breast-feed Juliet.
Lammas-tide a harvest festival formerly held in England on Aug. 1, when bread baked from the first crop of wheat was consecrated at Mass. The festival is used to symbolize fertility and plentitude, qualities which can be linked to Juliet as a young adolescent.
lantern an open or windowed structure on the roof of a building or in the upper part of a tower or the like, to admit light or air.
lay knife aboard lay claim to.
lesser cause that is, a woman, an amorous liaison.
let mischance be slave to patience submit to these unfortunate events with patience.
lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts Romeo is almost walking on air.
light'ning before death! Romeo refers to the belief that on the point of death the spirits were supposed to revive.
loggerhead a stupid fellow; blockhead. Capulet puns on the second servant's ability to find logs for the fire.
long spinners' legs the legs of the crane fly.
lose a winning match . . . stainless maidenhoods that is, win Romeo by surrendering to him.
lour scowl or frown upon.
love so gentle in his view love, often represented as Cupid, appears gentle.
love's shadows dreams; visions.
