To understand this phrase you have to analyze it in pieces.
Courtier is a word to describe a person that goes to the court to present, in this case, poetry. The court was the place where the powerful people (kings, princes, queens, royal governors...) of society would go to have a different kind of reunions and presentations.
Middling is a word that was used as a synonym for standard, regular. Here it means that the poet is not particularly bright, not all that talented.
her tendency to act without forethought
The big downfalls for both Romeo and Juliet are their impulsive behaviors. In this Juliet does not stop to think about the fact that she will be actually killing herself this time. Before it was only fake, now it will be real. Her first reaction to seeing that Romeo is dead is to join him, so she tries for a drop of poison that may still linger.
Answer: No, because the quotation marks are placed wrong and theres an unneccessary colon sign.
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b. Record her progress
Explanation:
Diane has a plan to improve her responsibility. In order to understand if she has met her goal, she must record her progress.
