vain fantasy misleading flights of imagination. This is how Mercutio perceives love.
validity value or worth.
vanity earthly pleasures or happiness.
virtues qualities.
visor mask.
waggoner driver.
wanny pale.
wanton's bird that is, the pet of an undisciplined, spoiled child.
weeds garments; clothing.
we'll not carry coals an old-fashioned saying, which meant to submit to insults.
well-apparell'd April clothed or adorned with images of new growth associated with the spring, such as leaves and blossom. Contrast with "limping winter."
when King . . . lov'd the beggar maid a 16th-century ballad.
wherefore why?
wink close and be unable to see.
winking turning a blind eye to.
world's exile Romeo feels exiled from the world.
wrought arranged for.
you have been a mouse-hunt in your tim you have chased after women in your youth. "Mouse" was an amorous term for a woman and here suggests the image of a cat prowling after a mouse.
you kiss by th'book that is, according to convention.
young cockerel's stone young rooster's testicle.
zounds an oath. The abbreviated form of the oath "By God's wounds."
