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This soliloquy is a powerful expression of physical desire. Juliet has married Romeo but she has not yet slept with him and she is desperate to do it. "I have bought the mansion of a love, but not possessed it." But Romeo is not coming to her bedchamber until the night, so she has to wait all day for him to come. Her allusion is to the myths which portray the sun as a chariot drawn by "fiery-footed steeds" and steered by the charioteer Phaeton. Phoebus is another name for the sun-god. She wants the guy in charge of the sun to whip the horses "to the west, and bring in cloudy night immediately"; in other words she wants the sun to set so it will be night, so Romeo will come so that she can have sex with him.

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