It is Beatrice, a spiritual being, who guides Dante through Paradise. ... The word appears three times in Troilus and Criseyde, once in the above instance, and twice in Book III (Tatlock 294). ... This is a clear reference to Dante, as he also calls upon the Holy Trinity in Canto 14 of the book of Paradise: "The One and Two and Three that there is King, And lives for ever Three and Two and One, By naught contained, containing everything- (28-30). ...

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After first kissing Juliet, she tells him "you kiss by th' book,"" meaning that he kisses according to the rules, and implying that while proficient, his kissing lacks originality (I.v.107). In reference to Rosaline, it seems, Romeo loves by the book. ...

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