Romeo and Juliet

Read the following exchange between Romeo and Juliet from act I of Romeo and Juliet. What does the excerpt reveal about the love between the two young people?

ROMEO: (to JULIET) If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

JULIET: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

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Romeo is pretty aggressive in his newly found devotion/obsession towards Juliet. Juliet is trying to slow the passion down by invoking religious imagery.

Romeo is expressing his passion for her, while Juliet is trying to take a step slower than him, and handle it with a bit more careful manner.