What are examples of puns found in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

A is a play on
words in which two words are used that have the same sound but have different meanings. Many
different puns can be found all throughout
.

One example of a pun can
be found in the very first scene. Whendeclares, ", upon my word, we'll not carry
coals," meaning, we will not be humiliated by the Montagues, both Gregory and Sampson then
make plays on the word "colliers" (I.i.1-2). To be a "collier" is to be a
person who either digs for or sells coals . However, said with a British accent,
collier sounds very much like the word choler or
collar. So when Gregory replies, "No, for then we should be
colliers," Sampson turns "collier" into "choler," meaning angry, as we
see in the line, "I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw" (3). Greggory next turns the
word into collar, which refers to a hangman's noose. Since this play on
words can only be heard rather than seen, as the words are spelled differently, it can be
difficult for a novice reader to catch. But basically collier,
choler, and collar all sound the same and refer to
coal workers, anger, and the hangman's noose respectively, making all three a play on
words.

A second pun can be found in the Nurse's
lines when we first meet her andin Act 1, Scene 3. Whenasks Nurse Juliet's age, saying that she
is not yet fourteen, Nurse replies by making a pun out of the word teen in the lines:

I'll lay fourteen of my teeth--
And yet, to my teen be it
spoken, I have but four--
She is not fourteen. (15-17)

The word teen means sorrow, but can also be interpreted to refer
to a teenager. Therefore, what Nurse is saying here is that she would bet "fourteen of her
teeth, but to her sorrow she only has four teeth," making a pun out of the
word teen to refer to both sorrow and Juliet as a teenager.

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