There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

We notice here a shift from 'literal' in a wordly sense (cf. the German wörtlich), pertaining to written words as such, to a descriptive sense, pertaining to how a text (or the world) is understood.

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