Read the excerpt from act i, scene iii of romeo and juliet.

lady capulet: tell me, daughter juliet,
how stands your disposition to be married?

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the valiant paris seeks you for his love.

nurse: a man, young lady! lady, such a man . .

lady capulet: verona’s summer hath not such a flower.

nurse: nay, he’s a flower; in faith, a very flower.

when nurse says that paris is a flower, she is using a metaphor meaning that he is

fragile.
handsome.
tender.
young.

Which best describes why regina tells the group, “i explained to ben that perhaps you hadn’t answered his letters because you didn’t think he was offering you enough, and that the time was getting short and you could guess how much he needed you—”? to make horace feel as though he deserves a portion of the credit to reassure ben that she was telling the truth about her motives to convince ben that he has been wise to trust what she has said to pacify horace before he gets angry about what she has done mark this and return