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"When the devout religion of mine eye
Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires;
And these, who often drown'd could never die,
Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!"

Romeo doesn't mean this literally; he is not suggesting that his eyes should be burned out. It's part of a complicated metaphor where the beauty his eyes see is equated to a religion. If his eyes see beauty in someone other than Rosaline, he says, their religion is a false religion and as "transparent heretics" they ought to be burned at the stake. And what he means is that his eyes will be wrong if they see someone else as more beautiful than Rosaline, just as heretics are wrong about religion.

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