Lord Capulet believes his daughter is too young to marry,
but he is also incapable of directly refusing Paris. To buy time, he instead
asks Paris to court his daughter first. It shows that he knows what he thinks
is best for his daughter and makes that decision for her.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
Sonnet Number 18 by William Shakespeare
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