Juliet makes this noncommittal statement to her mother in Act 1, scene 3 as they discuss Count Paris.  Lady Capulet has directly asked Juliet to “Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face / And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen” when she sees him at the feast that night. Lady Capulet insists that a beauty like Juliet shouldn’t hide from a handsome man like Paris. She reminds Juliet that she was already a mother at Juliet’s age; she sincerely wishes her daughter to marry young.  Yet another motive seems likely.  She tells Juliet, “So shall you share all that he doth possess.” Being a count, his marriage to Juliet would bring the Capulets status and wealth beyond what they possess.

Juliet, naturally, feels the pressure of her mother’s insistence that she marry Count Paris, and being a teenager, it is in her nature to resist. Neither of her parents have considered love, which Juliet longs for.  Yet rather than outright refuse to consider Paris, Juliet gives a neutral response: "I'll look to like, if looking liking move. / But no more deep will I endart mine eye / than your consent gives to make it fly." Juliet is agreeing to look at and consider Paris.  If she is impressed with what she sees, she will allow herself to like him.  Yet she will not completely open her heart to him more than they have they have given consent to. If Lady Capulet was listening to her daughter’s heart here, she’d hear more than the words on the surface.  Remember, the Capulet’s never mentioned (gave “consent” to) love in this union.

It is a crafty response from Juliet, using creative literary and rhetorical devices. Note the alliteration with the l’s and consonance with the k’s: “look to like, if looking lik ing...” Yes, this lends the usual musical effect of repeated consonant sounds, but it also creates a sort of tongue...

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