1. Hard Work or Effort:
* "*I have been toiling all night to get it, and now thou wouldst take it from me with a single request?"
- (Friar Laurence, Act V, Scene 2)
2. Mental or Emotional Struggle:
* "Why, such is love's transgression. Griefs of my own lie heavy in my breast... This precious book of love, this unbound lover,... To reason proud, and with thy toiling thought."
- (Romeo, Act I, Scene 1)
3. Burden or Adversity:
* "...my grief lies onward and my joy behind. For, oh, these toils and troubles of the world..."
- (Romeo, Act III, Scene 3)
4. Physical Exertion:
* "...For now these hot days is the mad blood stirring."
- (Montague, Act III, Scene 1)
In various instances, Shakespeare uses "toil" to convey characters' challenges, mental and emotional conflicts, laborious undertakings, and even the general difficulties associated with daily life.