Hello there!
This is one excerpt from Romeo and Juliet:
- Romeo: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
- Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
- Romeo:
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
- Juliet: Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
- Romeo: Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.
Explanation:
Romeo compares her with a saint and compares her kiss to a prayer and Juliet continues the metaphor asking if her lips has taken his sin. Romeo kisses her again "saying give me my sin again".
So the metaphor is: Juliet- saint, kiss-prayer
