How to pronounce “west”(verb) in English

Now the reason I say Romeo and Juliet is when Shakespeare wrote that play the reason it was quite a hit was that it was a subversive idea at that time. At that time even in theWest the reason you married was for family pragmatics, and marriage was a kind of M & A activity and you kind of two families came together and their property interests werealigned and it made sense and everybody was kind of on board.