Chapter V: Prologue: Enter Chorus.393

_Chor._ Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,[394]
And young affection gapes to be his heir;
That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,[395]
With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.[396]
Now Romeo is beloved and loves again, 5
Alike bewitched by the charm of looks,
But to his foe supposed he must complain,
And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks:
Being held a foe, he may not have access
To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear; 10
And she as much in love, her means much less
To meet her new beloved any where:
But passion lends them power, time means, to meet,
Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.[397] [_Exit._

SCENE I. _A lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard._[398]

_Enter_ ROMEO, _alone_.

_Rom._ Can I go forward when my heart is here?
Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.

[_He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it._

_Enter_ BENVOLIO _with_ MERCUTIO.

_Ben._ Romeo! my cousin Romeo![399]

_Mer._ He is wise;[400][401]
And, on my life, hath stol'n him home to bed.[401]

_Ben._ He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall: 5
Call, good Mercutio.

_Mer._ Nay, I'll conjure too.[402]
Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover![403]
Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh:[404]
Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied;[405]
Cry but 'ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove;'[406] 10
Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,[407]
One nick-name for her purblind son and heir,[408]
Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim[409][410]
When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid![410]
He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not;[411] 15
The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.[412]
I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,[413]
By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,
By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh,
And the demesnes that there adjacent lie, 20
That in thy likeness thou appear to us!

_Ben._ An if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.[414]

_Mer._ This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him
To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle[415]
Of some strange nature, letting it there stand[416] 25
Till she had laid it and conjured it down;
That were some spite: my invocation[417]
Is fair and honest, and in his mistress' name[415][417][418]
I conjure only but to raise up him.

_Ben._ Come, he hath hid himself among these trees,[419] 30
To be consorted with the humorous night:
Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.

_Mer._ If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
Now will he sit under a medlar-tree,
And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit[420] 35
As maids call medlars when they laugh alone.[421]
O, Romeo, that she were, O, that she were[422][423]
An open et cetera, thou a poperin pear![423][424]
Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed;
This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:[425] 40
Come, shall we go?[426]

_Ben._ Go then, for 'tis in vain[426][427]
To seek him here that means not to be found. [_Exeunt._

SCENE II. _Capulet's orchard._[428]

_Enter_ ROMEO.[429]

_Rom._ He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

[_Juliet appears above at a window._

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?[430]
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief, 5
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:[431]
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,[432]
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady; O, it is my love![433] 10
O, that she knew she were![433][434]
She speaks, yet she says nothing: what of that?
Her eye discourses, I will answer it.
I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,[435] 15
Having some business, do intreat her eyes[436]
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven[437] 20
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.[438]
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!

_Jul._ Ay me!

_Rom._ She speaks:[439] 25
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head,[440]
As is a winged messenger of heaven[441]
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes[442]
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, 30
When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds[443]
And sails upon the bosom of the air.

_Jul._ O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?[444]
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, 35
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

_Rom._ [_Aside_] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?[445]

_Jul._ 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.[446]
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,[447] 40
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part[448]
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name![448][449]
What's in a name? that which we call a rose[450]
By any other name would smell as sweet;[451]
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,[452] 45
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,[453]
And for thy name, which is no part of thee,[454]
Take all myself.

_Rom._ I take thee at thy word:[455]
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; 50
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

_Jul._ What man art thou, that, thus bescreen'd in night,[456]
So stumblest on my counsel?

_Rom._ By a name[457]
I know not how to tell thee who I am:[457]
My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, 55
Because it is an enemy to thee;
Had I it written, I would tear the word.

_Jul._ My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words[458]
Of thy tongue's uttering, yet I know the sound:[459]
Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague? 60

_Rom._ Neither, fair maid, if either thee dislike.[460]

_Jul._ How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?[461]
The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,
And the place death, considering who thou art,
If any of my kinsmen find thee here.[462] 65

_Rom._ With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls,[463]
For stony limits cannot hold love out:
And what love can do, that dares love attempt;
Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.[464]

_Jul._ If they do see thee, they will murder thee. 70

_Rom._ Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.

_Jul._ I would not for the world they saw thee here.

_Rom._ I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes;[465] 75
And but thou love me, let them find me here:[466]
My life were better ended by their hate,
Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.

_Jul._ By whose direction found'st thou out this place?

_Rom._ By love, that first did prompt me to inquire;[467] 80
He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes.
I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far[468]
As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea,[469]
I would adventure for such merchandise.[470]

_Jul._ Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face,[471] 85
Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night.
Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny
What I have spoke: but farewell compliment![472]
Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,'[473] 90
And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st,
Thou mayst prove false: at lovers' perjuries,[474]
They say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,[475]
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:
Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,[476] 95
I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay,
So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world.
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond;
And therefore thou mayst think my 'haviour light:[477]
But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true 100
Than those that have more cunning to be strange.[478]
I should have been more strange, I must confess,
But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,
My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,[479]
And not impute this yielding to light love, 105
Which the dark night hath so discovered.

_Rom._ Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear,[480]
That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops,--[481]

_Jul._ O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon,[482]
That monthly changes in her circled orb,[483] 110
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

_Rom._ What shall I swear by?

_Jul._ Do not swear at all;
Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the god of my idolatry,
And I'll believe thee.

_Rom._ If my heart's dear love--[484] 115

_Jul._ Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,[485]
I have no joy of this contract to-night:
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,[486]
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night![487] 120
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,[488]
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest
Come to thy heart as that within my breast!

_Rom._ O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? 125

_Jul._ What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?

_Rom._ The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.[489]

_Jul._ I gave thee mine before thou didst request it:
And yet I would it were to give again.

_Rom._ Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love?[490] 130

_Jul._ But to be frank, and give it thee again.
And yet I wish but for the thing I have:
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite. 135
I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu![491]

[_Nurse calls within._

Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true.
Stay but a little, I will come again.[492] [_Exit._

_Rom._ O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard,[493]
Being in night, all this is but a dream, 140
Too flattering-sweet to be substantial.[494]

_Re-enter_ JULIET, _above_.

_Jul._ Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed.[495]
If that thy bent of love be honourable,
Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow,
By one that I'll procure to come to thee, 145
Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite,[496]
And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay
And follow thee my lord throughout the world.[497]

_Nurse._ [_Within_] Madam![498]

_Jul._ I come, anon.--But if thou mean'st not well,[499] 150
I do beseech thee--[498]

_Nurse._ [_Within_] Madam!

_Jul._ By and by, I come:--
To cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief:[500]
To-morrow will I send.

_Rom._ So thrive my soul,--[501]

_Jul._ A thousand times good night! [_Exit._[502]

_Rom._ A thousand times the worse, to want thy light.[503] 155
Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.[504]

[_Retiring slowly._

_Re-enter_ JULIET, _above_.

_Jul._ Hist! Romeo, hist!--O, for a falconer's voice,
To lure this tassel-gentle back again![505]
Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud;[506] 160
Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies,
And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine[507][508]
With repetition of my Romeo's name.[508][509]
Romeo![510]

_Rom._ It is my soul that calls upon my name:[511] 165
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears!

_Jul._ Romeo!

_Rom._ My dear?[512]

_Jul._ At what o'clock to-morrow
Shall I send to thee?

_Rom._ At the hour of nine.[513]

_Jul._ I will not fail: 'tis twenty years till then.[514] 170
I have forgot why I did call thee back.

_Rom._ Let me stand here till thou remember it.

_Jul._ I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,[515]
Remembering how I love thy company.

_Rom._ And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget, 175
Forgetting any other home but this.[516]

_Jul._ 'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone:
And yet no farther than a wanton's bird,[517]
Who lets it hop a little from her hand,[518]
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, 180
And with a silk thread plucks it back again,[519]
So loving-jealous of his liberty.[520]

_Rom._ I would I were thy bird.

_Jul._ Sweet, so would I:
Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow[521] 185
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.[521][522] [_Exit._

_Rom._ Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast![521]
Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest![521]
Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell,[521][523]
His help to crave and my dear hap to tell.[521] [_Exit._ 190

SCENE III. _Friar Laurence's cell._[524]

_Enter_ FRIAR LAURENCE, _with a basket_.[525]

_Fri. L._ The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,[526]
Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light;[526][527]
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels[526][528]
From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels:[526][529]
Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye, 5
The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,
I must up-fill this osier cage of ours[530]
With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.[531]
The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;[532]
What is her burying grave, that is her womb: 10
And from her womb children of divers kind
We sucking on her natural bosom find,
Many for many virtues excellent,[533]
None but for some, and yet all different.
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies 15
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:[534]
For nought so vile that on the earth doth live,
But to the earth some special good doth give;[535]
Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:[536] 20
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime's by action dignified.[537]
Within the infant rind of this small flower[538]
Poison hath residence, and medicine power:[539]
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part,[540] 25
Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.[541]
Two such opposed kings encamp them still[542]
In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;
And where the worser is predominant,
Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.[543] 30

_Enter_ ROMEO.

_Rom._ Good morrow, father.

_Fri. L._ Benedicite![544]
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?[545]
Young son, it argues a distemper'd head[546]
So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed:
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, 35
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;[547]
But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain[548]
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:
Therefore thy earliness doth me assure
Thou art up-roused by some distemperature;[549] 40
Or if not so, then here I hit it right,
Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night.

_Rom._ That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine.

_Fri. L._ God pardon sin! wast thou with Rosaline?

_Rom._ With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no; 45
I have forgot that name and that name's woe.

_Fri. L._ That's my good son: but where hast thou been then?

_Rom._ I'll tell thee ere thou ask it me again.
I have been feasting with mine enemy;
Where on a sudden one hath wounded me, 50
That's by me wounded: both our remedies[550]
Within thy help and holy physic lies:
I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo,
My intercession likewise steads my foe.

_Fri. L._ Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift;[551] 55
Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.

_Rom._ Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set
On the fair daughter of rich Capulet:[552]
As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine;
And all combined, save what thou must combine 60
By holy marriage: when, and where, and how,
We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow,
I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray,[553]
That thou consent to marry us to-day.

_Fri. L._ Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here![554] 65
Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,[555]
So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine[556]
Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline![557] 70
How much salt water thrown away in waste,[558]
To season love, that of it doth not taste!
The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,
Thy old groans ring yet in mine ancient ears;[559]
Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit[560] 75
Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet:
If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,
Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline:
And art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then:[561]
Women may fall when there's no strength in men. 80

_Rom._ Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline.

_Fri. L._ For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.

_Rom._ And bad'st me bury love.

_Fri. L._ Not in a grave,
To lay one in, another out to have.[562]

_Rom._ I pray thee, chide not: she whom I love now[563] 85
Doth grace for grace and love for love allow;
The other did not so.

_Fri. L._ O, she knew well
Thy love did read by rote and could not spell.[564]
But come, young waverer, come, go with me,[565]
In one respect I'll thy assistant be; 90
For this alliance may so happy prove,
To turn your households' rancour to pure love.[566]

_Rom._ O, let us hence; I stand on sudden haste.

_Fri._ L. Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

[_Exeunt._

SCENE IV. _A street._[567]

_Enter_ BENVOLIO _and_ MERCUTIO.

_Mer._ Where the devil should this Romeo be? Came[568][569]
he not home to-night?[569]

_Ben._ Not to his father's; I spoke with his man.[569]

_Mer._ Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline,[570][571]
Torments him so that he will sure run mad.[571] 5

_Ben._ Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet,[572][573]
Hath sent a letter to his father's house.[572]

_Mer._ A challenge, on my life.

_Ben._ Romeo will answer it.

_Mer._ Any man that can write may answer a letter. 10

_Ben._ Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he
dares, being dared.

_Mer._ Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead! stabbed
with a white wench's black eye; shot thorough the ear with[574]
a love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind 15
bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to encounter Tybalt?

_Ben._ Why, what is Tybalt?[575][576]

_Mer._ More than prince of cats, I can tell you. O, he's[576][577]
the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as you
sing prick-song, keeps time, distance and proportion;[578] 20
rests me his minim rest, one, two, and the third in your[579]
bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a duellist, a duellist;[580]
a gentleman of the very first house, of the first and
second cause: ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso!
the hai![581] 25

_Ben._ The what?

_Mer._ The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting
fantasticoes;[582][583]
these new tuners of accents! 'By Jesu, a very good[583][584]
blade! a very tall man! a very good whore!' Why, is
not this a lamentable thing, grandsire, that we should be 30
thus afflicted with these strange flies, these fashion-mongers,
these perdona-mi's, who stand so much on the new form[585]
that they cannot sit at ease on the old bench? O, their[586]
bones, their bones![587]

_Enter_ ROMEO.

_Ben._ Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.[588] 35

_Mer._ Without his roe, like a dried herring: O flesh,
flesh, how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers
that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a
kitchen-wench;[589]
marry, she had a better love to be-rhyme her; Dido,
a dowdy; Cleopatra, a gipsy; Helen and Hero, hildings and[590] 40
harlots; Thisbe, a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose.[591]
Signior Romeo, bon jour! there's a French salutation to your[592]
French slop. You gave us the counterfeit fairly last night.[593]

_Rom._ Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit[594]
did I give you?[594] 45

_Mer._ The slip, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?[594]

_Rom._ Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great;[594][595]
and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.[594][596]

_Mer._ That's as much as to say, Such a case as yours[594]
constrains a man to bow in the hams.[594] 50

_Rom._ Meaning, to court'sy.[594][597]

_Mer._ Thou hast most kindly hit it.[594]

_Rom._ A most courteous exposition.[594][598]

_Mer._ Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.[594]

_Rom._ Pink for flower.[594] 55

_Mer._ Right.[594]

_Rom._ Why, then is my pump well flowered.[594]

_Mer._ Well said: follow me this jest now, till thou hast[594][599]
worn out thy pump, that, when the single sole of it is worn,[594]
the jest may remain, after the wearing, solely singular.[594][600] 60

_Rom._ O single-soled jest, solely singular for the[594][601]
singleness![594][601]

_Mer._ Come between us, good Benvolio; my wits faint.[594][602]

_Rom._ Switch and spurs, switch and spurs; or I'll cry a[594][603][604]
match.[594][603] 65

_Mer._ Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have[594][605][606]
done; for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of thy[594][606]
wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five: was I with[594]
you there for the goose?[594]

_Rom._ Thou wast never with me for any thing when[594][607] 70
thou wast not there for the goose.[594]

_Mer._ I will bite thee by the ear for that jest.[594]

_Rom._ Nay, good goose, bite not.[594]

_Mer._ Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most[594][608][609]
sharp sauce.[594][608] 75

_Rom._ And is it not well served in to a sweet goose?[594][610]

_Mer._ O, here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an[594]
inch narrow to an ell broad![594]

_Rom._ I stretch it out for that word 'broad;' which added[594]
to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.[594][611] 80

_Mer._ Why, is not this better now than groaning for[594][612]
love? now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art[594][613]
thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this[594]
drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up[594]
and down to hide his bauble in a hole.[594][614] 85

_Ben._ Stop there, stop there.[594]

_Mer._ Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the[594]
hair.[594]

_Ben._ Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large.[594]

_Mer._ O, thou art deceived; I would have made it[594] 90
short: for I was come to the whole depth of my tale, and[594][615]
meant indeed to occupy the argument no longer.[594]

_Rom._ Here's goodly gear![616]

_Enter_ Nurse _and_ Peter.

_Mer._ A sail, a sail![617]

_Ben._ Two, two; a shirt and a smock.[618] 95

_Nurse._ Peter!

_Peter._ Anon?

_Nurse._ My fan, Peter.

_Mer._ Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the[619][620]
fairer of the two.[620][621] 100

_Nurse._ God ye good morrow, gentlemen.

_Mer._ God ye good den, fair gentlewoman.[622]

_Nurse._ Is it good den?[623]

_Mer._ 'Tis no less, I tell you; for the bawdy hand of[624]
the dial is now upon the prick of noon. 105

_Nurse._ Out upon you! what a man are you!

_Rom._ One, gentlewoman, that God hath made himself[625]
to mar.

_Nurse._ By my troth, it is well said; 'for himself to[626]
mar,' quoth a'? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where[627] 110
I may find the young Romeo?[628]

_Rom._ I can tell you; but young Romeo will be older
when you have found him than he was when you sought
him: I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse.

_Nurse._ You say well. 115

_Mer._ Yea, is the worst well? very well took, i' faith;
wisely, wisely.

_Nurse._ If you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with[629]
you.

_Ben._ She will indite him to some supper.[630] 120

_Mer._ A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! So ho!

_Rom._ What hast thou found?[631]

_Mer._ No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie,[631]
that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent.[631][632] [_Sings._
An old hare hoar,[631][633] 125
And an old hare hoar,[631][633]
Is very good meat in lent:[631][633]
But a hare that is hoar,[631][633]
Is too much for a score,[631][633]
When it hoars ere it be spent.[631][633] 130
Romeo, will you come to your father's? we'll to dinner thither.

_Rom._ I will follow you.

_Mer._ Farewell, ancient lady; farewell, [_singing_] 'lady,[634]
lady, lady.' [_Exeunt Mercutio and Benvolio._[635] 135

_Nurse._ Marry, farewell! I pray you, sir, what saucy[636]
merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?[637]

_Rom._ A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself[638]
talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand
to in a month.[639] 140

_Nurse._ An a' speak any thing against me, I'll take[640]
him down, an a' were lustier than he is, and twenty such[641]
Jacks; and if I cannot, I'll find those that shall. Scurvy
knave! I am none of his flirt-gills; I am none of his
skains-mates.[642]
[_Turning to Peter_] And thou must stand by too,[643] 145
and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure?

_Peter._ I saw no man use you at his pleasure; if I had,
my weapon should quickly have been out, I warrant you:
I dare draw as soon as another man, if I see occasion in a
good quarrel and the law on my side. 150

_Nurse._ Now, afore God, I am so vexed that every
part about me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a
word: and as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire[644]
you out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself: but[644]
first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into a fool's
paradise,[645] 155
as they say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour, as
they say: for the gentlewoman is young, and therefore, if[646]
you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill
thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and very weak[647]
dealing. 160

_Rom._ Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress.[648]
I protest unto thee--[649]

_Nurse._ Good heart, and, i' faith, I will tell her as
much: Lord, Lord, she will be a joyful woman.

_Rom._ What wilt thou tell her, nurse? thou dost not 165
mark me.[650]

_Nurse._ I will tell her, sir, that you do protest; which,
as I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.[651]

_Rom._ Bid her devise[652]
Some means to come to shrift this afternoon;[652] 170
And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell[653]
Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains.

_Nurse._ No, truly, sir; not a penny.

_Rom._ Go to; I say you shall.

_Nurse._ This afternoon, sir? well, she shall be there. 175

_Rom._ And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey-wall:[654]
Within this hour my man shall be with thee,
And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair;[655]
Which to the high top-gallant of my joy
Must be my convoy in the secret night. 180
Farewell; be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains:[656]
Farewell; commend me to thy mistress.[657]

_Nurse._ Now God in heaven bless thee! Hark you, sir.

_Rom._ What say'st thou, my dear nurse?[658]

_Nurse._ Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say,[659][660] 185
Two may keep counsel, putting one away?[659][661]

_Rom._ I warrant thee, my man's as true as steel.[662]

_Nurse._ Well, sir; my mistress is the sweetest lady--Lord,[663]
Lord! when 'twas a little prating thing--O, there is[663]
a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain lay knife[663] 190
aboard; but she, good soul, had as lief see a toad, a very[663][664]
toad, as see him. I anger her sometimes, and tell her that[663][665]
Paris is the properer man; but, I'll warrant you, when I[663]
say so, she looks as pale as any clout in the versal world.[663][666]
Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter?[663] 195

_Rom._ Ay, nurse; what of that? both with an R.[663]

_Nurse._ Ah, mocker! that's the dog's name; R is for[663][667][668]
the--No; I know it begins with some other letter--and[663][668][669]
she hath the prettiest sententious of it, of you and rosemary,[663]
that it would do you good to hear it.[663][670] 200

_Rom._ Commend me to thy lady.[663][671]

_Nurse._ Ay, a thousand times. [_Exit Romeo._] Peter![663][672]

_Pet._ Anon![663][673]

_Nurse._ Peter, take my fan, and go before, and apace.[663][674]

[_Exeunt._

SCENE V. _Capulet's orchard._[675]

_Enter_ JULIET.

_Jul._ The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;
In half an hour she promised to return.[676]
Perchance she cannot meet him: that's not so.
O, she is lame! love's heralds should be thoughts,[677]
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams[678] 5
Driving back shadows over louring hills:[679]
Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love,[680]
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.[681]
Now is the sun upon the highmost hill
Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve 10
Is three long hours; yet she is not come.[682]
Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball;[683]
My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
And his to me:[684][685] 15
But old folks, many feign as they were dead;[685][686]
Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.[687]

_Enter_ Nurse, _with_ Peter.[688]

O God, she comes! O honey nurse, what news?[689]
Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away.

_Nurse._ Peter, stay at the gate.[690] [_Exit Peter._ 20

_Jul._ Now, good sweet nurse,--O Lord, why look'st thou sad?[691]
Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;[692][693]
If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news[692][694]
By playing it to me with so sour a face.[692]

_Nurse._ I am a-weary; give me leave awhile.[695] 25
Fie, how my bones ache! what a jaunce have I had![696]

_Jul._ I would thou hadst my bones and I thy news:
Nay, come, I pray thee, speak; good, good nurse, speak.[697]

_Nurse._ Jesu, what haste? can you not stay awhile?[698][699]
Do you not see that I am out of breath?[699][700] 30

_Jul._ How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath[699]
To say to me that thou art out of breath?[699]
The excuse that thou dost make in this delay[699]
Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.[699]
Is thy news good, or bad? answer to that;[701] 35
Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance:
Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad?

_Nurse._ Well, you have made a simple choice; you know[702]
not how to choose a man: Romeo! no, not he; though his face[702]
be better than any man's, yet his leg excels all men's;
and[702][703] 40
for a hand, and a foot, and a body, though they be not to be[702][704]
talked on, yet they are past compare: he is not the flower of[702]
courtesy, but, I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. Go thy[702][705]
ways, wench; serve God. What, have you dined at home?[702]

_Jul._ No, no: but all this did I know before.[706] 45
What says he of our marriage? what of that?

_Nurse._ Lord, how my head aches! what a head have I!
It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.
My back o' t' other side,--ah, my back, my back![707]
Beshrew your heart for sending me about, 50
To catch my death with jauncing up and down![708]

_Jul._ I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.[709]
Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?

_Nurse._ Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and[710]
a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I warrant, a[710] 55
virtuous,--Where is your mother?[710]

_Jul._ Where is my mother! why, she is within;[711]
Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest![711]
'Your love says, like an honest gentleman,
Where is your mother?'

_Nurse._ O God's lady dear![712] 60
Are you so hot? marry, come up, I trow;
Is this the poultice for my aching bones?
Henceforward do your messages yourself.

_Jul._ Here's such a coil! come, what says Romeo?

_Nurse._ Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day? 65

_Jul._ I have.

_Nurse._ Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell;[713]
There stays a husband to make you a wife:
Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks,
They'll be in scarlet straight at any news.[714] 70
Hie you to church; I must another way,
To fetch a ladder, by the which your love
Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark:[715]
I am the drudge, and toil in your delight;
But you shall bear the burthen soon at night. 75
Go; I'll to dinner; hie you to the cell.

_Jul._ Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell. [_Exeunt._

SCENE VI. _Friar Laurence's cell._[716]

_Enter_ FRIAR LAURENCE _and_ ROMEO.[717]

_Fri. L._ So smile the heavens upon this holy act
That after-hours with sorrow chide us not!

_Rom._ Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight: 5
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare,[718]
It is enough I may but call her mine.[719]

_Fri. L._ These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder[720] 10
Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey[721]
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness[722]
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore, love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 15

_Enter_ JULIET.

Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot
Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint.
A lover may bestride the gossamer[723]
That idles in the wanton summer air,[723]
And yet not fall; so light is vanity. 20

_Jul._ Good even to my ghostly confessor.

_Fri. L._ Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.

_Jul._ As much to him, else is his thanks too much.[724]

_Rom._ Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy[725]
Be heap'd like mine, and that thy skill be more 25
To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue[726]
Unfold the imagined happiness that both
Receive in either by this dear encounter.

_Jul._ Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, 30
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess,[727]
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.[728]

_Fri. L._ Come, come with me, and we will make short work; 35
For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone
Till holy church incorporate two in one.[729] [_Exeunt._

FOOTNOTES:

[393] ACT II. PROLOGUE. Enter Chorus. Chor.] Edd. Chorus. Qq Ff. ACT II. SCENE I. Chorus. Rowe. Enter Chorus. Theobald.

[394] _in_] _on_ Pope.

[395] _for which_] _which_ Steevens (1793).]

_groan'd for_] _groned_ Q5. _groan'd sore_ Rowe.

[396] _match'd_] _match_ Q2.

[397] _Tempering_] _Tempring_ Qq. _Temp'ring_ F1. _Temp'ting_ F2. _Tempting_ F3 F4.

[Exit.] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[398] SCENE I.] Edd. SCENE II. Rowe. ACT II. Theobald. ACT II. SCENE I. Hanmer. SCENE III. Capell.

A lane ...] Edd. The Street. Rowe. Wall of Capulet's Garden. Capell. An open Place, adjoining Capulet's garden. Malone.

[399] _thy_] Qq F1. _my_ F2 F3 F4.

_centre_] _center_ Qq F1 F4. _centour_ F2. _centor_ F3.

[He ... it.] Steevens (1793). om. Qq Ff. Exit. Rowe. Leaps the Wall. Capell. He climbs the wall, and leaps down. Malone.

[400] _my_] _why_, Capell.

_cousin Romeo_] (Q1) Pope. _cozen Romeo, Romeo_ Qq Ff.

[401] _He ... bed._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[402] _Nay ... too._] Given to Mercutio by (Q1) Q4 Q5 and Rowe. Continued to Benvolio in Q2 Q3 Ff.

[403] _Romeo!_] Capell. _Romeo._ Q4. _Romeo_, Q5. Mer. _Romeo_, Q2 Q3 F1 F2. Mer. _Romeo_ F3 F4. _Why, Romeo!_ Pope. _Hear, Romeo!_ Mommsen, conj.

_humours!... lover!_] _humour's-madman! passion-lover_ Singer (ed. 2).

[404] _sigh_] _fight_ F2 F3 F4.

[405] _one rhyme_] _one rime_ (Q1) Q3 Q4 F1. _on rime_ Q2. _one time_ F2 F3 F4. _one ryme_ Q5.

[406] _Cry but 'ay me!'_] _Crie but ay me,_ Q2. _Cry but ay me_, Q3 Q4 Q5. _Cry me but ay me,_ F1. _Cry me but ayme_, F2 F3. _Cry me but aim_, F4. _Cry but Ah me!_ Theobald (ed. 2).

_pronounce_] (Q1) Q4 Q5. _prouaunt_, Q2 Q3. _Prouant_, F1. _Couply_ F2 F3 F4. _couple_ Rowe.

_dove_ (Q1) Pope. _day_ Q2 Q3 Ff. _die_ Q4. _dye_ Q5.

[407] _gossip_] (Q1) Q4 Q5 F4. _goship_ Q2 Q3 F1 F2 F3.

_word_] _wor_ F2.

[408] _for_] _to_ Q5.

_heir_] _heire_ (Q1) Q4 Q5. _her_ Q2 Q3 Ff.

[409] _Adam Cupid_] Steevens, 1778 (Upton conj.). _Abraham: Cupid_ (Q1) Q2 Q3. _Abraham Cupid_ Q4 Ff Q5. _auburn Cupid_ Dyce, ed. 1 (Theobald conj.). _abram Cupid_ Dyce conj.

_trim_] (Q1) Steevens _true_ Qq Ff. See note (III).

[410] _Young ... maid_] "_Young Abraham_"--"_Cupid ... maid_" Hunter conj.

[411] _he stirreth_] _he striveth_ Q3. _stirreth_ Steevens (1793).

_moveth_] _moves_ Hanmer.

[412] _and_] om. F1.

[413] _thee_] _the_ Q3.

[414] _An_] _An_' Theobald (ed. 2). _And_ Qq Ff.

[415] _mistress_'] _mistress's_ F4.

[416] _there_] om. F1.

[417] _That ... name_] As in Capell. Two lines, the first ending _spight_, in Qq Ff.

[418] _Is fair and honest_] _is Honest and fair_ Pope, reading _That ... is_ as one line.

_and in_] _in_ Q2.

[419] _these_] _those_ (Q1) Capell.

[420] _that_] _such_ Capell.

[421] _As_] _Which_ Rowe.

_medlars_] _medless_ Q4.

[422] _O, ... O_,] _Ah, ... ah_, Capell.

[423] _O, Romeo ... pear!_] Omitted by Pope.

[424] _open et cetera, thou_] (Q1) Malone. _open, or thou_ Q2 Q3 Ff. _open & catera, and thou_ Q4. _open and catera, and thou_ Q5. _open--or thou_ Rowe. _open--, and thou_ Capell.

[425] _too_] _to_ Q3 Q4 F1.

[426] _Go ... found._] Arranged as by Pope. Two lines, the first ending _here_, in Qq Ff.

[427] [Exeunt.] Q4 Ff Q5. Exit. Q2 Q3.

[428] SCENE II.] Hanmer. SCENE III. Rowe. SCENE IV. Capell.

Capulet's orchard.] A garden. Rowe. Capulet's garden. Theobald.

[429] Enter Romeo.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. See note (IV).

[430] [Juliet ...] Rowe (after line 3). Enter Juliet, above. Capell.

[431] _art_] _at_ Q4.

[432] _sick_] _pale_ (Q1) Dyce (ed. 2). _white_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[433] _It is ... were_] As in Johnson. One line in Qq Ff. Omitted in (Q1) Pope.

[434] _were_] _is_ Seymour conj.

[435] _in all_] _of all_ Rowe.

[436] _do_] _to_ Q2.

[437] _eyes_] (Q1) Pope. _eye_ Qq Ff.

[438] _were_] _was_ Seymour conj.

[439] _Ay_] _Ah_ Rowe.

[440] _night_] _sight_ Theobald.

[441] _of_] _from_ Rowe.

[442] _white-upturned_] Theobald (ed. 2). _white upturned_ Qq Ff.

[443] _lazy-pacing_] Pope. _lasie pacing_ (Q1). _lazie puffing_ Qq Ff (_lazy_ F2 F3 F4). _lazy passing_ Collier conj.

[444] _Romeo?_] _Montague?_ Anon. conj.

[445] [Aside] Rowe.

_hear_] _here_ F2.

[446] _Thou ... Montague_] Qq Ff. Omitted in (Q1) Pope. _Thou'rt not thy self so, though a Mountague_ Hanmer. _Thou art thyself, then not a Montague_ Johnson conj. _Thou art thyself though, not a Montague_ Malone. _Thou art thyself, although a Montague_ or _Thou art thyself, though yet a Montague_ Ritson conj. _Thou art thyself, thought not a Montague_ Jackson conj. _Thou art thyself, thou; not a Montague_ Anon. conj.

[447] _nor hand_] _not hand_ F4.

[448] _nor any ... name!_] Malone. _nor any other part._ (Q1) Pope. _O be some other name Belonging to a man._ Qq Ff.

[449] _Belonging to a_] _'Longing to_ Steevens conj. _'Longing t' a_ S. Walker conj. _Belonging_ Taylor conj. MS.

[450] _What's in a name?_] Q4 Q5 F3 F4. _Whats in a name?_ (Q1) F2. _Whats in a name_ Q2. _What's in a name_ Q3. _What? in a names_ F1.

[451] _name_] (Q1) Pope. _word_ Qq Ff.

[452] _were_] _wene_ Q2.

[453] _title. Romeo_,] _title: Romeo_ Q5. _title; Romeo_, F4. _title, Romeo_ Q2 Q3 Q4. _title Romeo_ (Q1). _title Romeo_, F1 F2 F3.

_doff_] Qq Ff. _part_ (Q1). _quit_ Pope.

[454] _thy name_] Qq Ff. _that name_ (Q1) Rowe.

[455] [raising his Voice, and showing himself. Capell. Starting forward. Collier (Collier MS.).

[456] _night_] _nigh_ F2.

[457] _By ... am_:] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[458] _yet not_] Qq Ff. _not yet_ (Q1) Capell.

[459] _thy ... uttering_] Qq Ff. _that ... utterance_ (Q1) Malone. _that ... uttering_ Pope.

[460] _maid ... dislike_] Qq Ff. _saint ... displease_ (Q1) Pope. _saint ... dislike_ Theobald. _maid ... mislike_ Anon. conj.

[461] _How ... wherefore?_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

[462] _kinsmen_] _kismen_ Q2.

[463] _With ... walls_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

[464] _let_] (Q1) Capell. _stop_ Qq Ff.

[465] _eyes_] Qq Ff. _sight_ (Q1) Capell.

[466] _And_] _An_ Anon. conj.

[467] _love_] _Love's_ Keightley.

_that_] _who_ (Q1) Capell.

_prompt_] (Q1) F2 F3 F4. _promp_ Qq F1.

[468] _pilot_] _Pylat_ Q2. _Pylot_ Q3 Q4 F1 F2.

[469] _vast shore wash'd_] _vast shore washt_ Q4 Q5. _vast shore, washt_ (Q1). _vast shore washeth_ Q2. _vast shore washet_ Q3. _vast-shore-washet_ F1. _vast-shore: washd_ F2. _vast-shore: wash'd_ F3. _vast-shore, wash'd_ F4.

_farthest_] Qq Ff. _furthest_ (Q1) Steevens (1793).

[470] _would_] (Q1) Pope. _should_ Qq Ff.

[471] _know'st_] Q5. _knowst_ (Q1). _knowest_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff.

_on_] _one_ F3.

[472] _compliment_] _complement_ Qq F1. _complements_ (Q1) F2 F3 F4.

[473] _love me? I_] Qq. _Love? I_ F1. _Love? O I_ F2 F3. _Love? O, I_ F4.

[474] _mayst_] _maist_ Q5. _maiest_ Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2. _mayest_ F3. _may'st_ F4.]

_false: at ... perjuries_,] _false: at ... perjuries_ F1 Q5. _false at ... perjuries._ Q2. _false, at ... perjuries_ Q3 F3. _false; at ... perjuries_ Q4 F4. _false at ... perjuries_ F2.

[475] _laughs_] _laught_ F1.

[476] _think'st_] Q5. _thinkest_ The rest. _think_ (Q1) Pope.

[477] _mayst_] _maist_ Q5 F3. _maiest_ Q2 Q3 Q4 F1. _mayest_ F2 F4.]

_'haviour_] Rowe. _haviour_ (Q1) F2 F3 F4. _behaviour_ Qq F1 (_behavior_ Q2).

[478] _more cunning_] (Q1) Pope. _coying_ Q2 Q3 F1. _more coying_ Q4 Q5. _more coyning_ F2 F3 F4.

[479] _true love's_] _true loves_ (Q1) Ff Q5. _truloue_ Q2. _trueloue_ Q3. _true loue_ Q4.

[480] _blessed_] (Q1) Qq. om. Ff.]

_swear_] (Q1) Malone. _vow_ Qq Ff.

[481] _tops,--_] _tops--_ Rowe. _tops._ Qq Ff.

[482] _inconstant_] _unconstant_ F3 F4.

[483] _circled_] _circle_ Q2.

[484] _heart's dear_] _true heart's_ (Q1) Pope.

_love--_] F2 F3 F4. _love._ Qq F1.

[485] _swear: although ... thee_,] _swear--although ... thee,_ Rowe. _sweare, although ... thee:_ Q2 Q3 Q4 F1. _sweare, although ... thee,_ Q5. _sweare although ... thee,_ F2 F3 F4.

[486] _sudden_] _sodden_ F2.

[487] _lightens._] Rowe. _lightens_: Q5. _lightens_, The rest.

[488] _breath_,] _breath._ F2.

[489] _for mine_] Qq F1. _of mine_ F2 F3 F4.

[490] _Wouldst ... love?_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

[491] [Nurse calls within.] Rowe. Cals within. Ff (Calls F4). Omitted in Qq.

[492] [Exit.] Rowe. Omitted in Qq Ff.

[493] _afeard_] _afraid_ Rowe.

[494] _flattering-sweet_] Theobald. _flattering sweet_ Qq Ff.]

Re-enter Juliet, above.] Rowe. Enter. F2 F3 F4. om. Qq F1.

[495] _Three ... indeed._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[496] _rite_] F3 F4. _right_ Q2 Q3 F1 F2. _rights_ Q4. _rites_ Q5.

[497] _my lord_] (Q1) Ff. _my L._ Q2 Q3. _my Love_ Q4 Q5.

[498] Nurse [Within.] Capell. Within: Ff. om. Qq. _Madam_ being put in the margin.

[499] _mean'st_] Pope. _meanst_ Q5. _meanest_ The rest.

[500] _suit_] Q5. _sute_ Q4. _strife_ Q2 Q3 Ff. See note (V).

[501] _soul,--_] Theobald. _soule._ Qq F1 F2. _soul._ F3 F4.

[502] [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq.

[503] _light_] _sight_ Q4 Q5.

[504] _toward_] Qq. _towards_ Ff.

[Retiring slowly.] Malone. retires slowly. Capell, after line 156.

Re-enter ...] Malone. Enter Juliet againe. Qq Ff.]

[505] _tassel-gentle_] Hanmer. _Tassel gentle_ Qq Ff.

[506] _not_] om. Q4.

[507] _tongue_] _voice_ (Q1) Collier.

[508] _than mine With_] Q5. _then myne With_ Q4. _then With_ Q2 Q3 F1. _then with The_ F2 F3. _than with The_ F4.

[509] _Romeo's name_] (Q1) Steevens. _Romeo_ Qq Ff.

[510] _Romeo!_] Edd. from (Q1). om. Qq Ff.

[511] _my soul_] _my love_ Q4 Q5.

[returns to the Window. Capell.

[512] _My dear?_] _My Deere._ Q4 Q5. _Madame._ (Q1) Malone. _My Neece._ Q2 Q3 F1. _My sweete._ F2. _My sweet._ F3 F4. _My novice?_ Jackson conj. _My--Nurse._ [Within.] _Madam._ Knight.

_At what_] (Q1) Pope. _What_ Qq Ff.

_o'_] Theobald. _a_ Qq Ff.

[513] _At_] (Q1) Capell. _By_ Qq Ff.

[514] _years_] _yeare_ Q2.

[515] _I shall ... stand_] _I shall forget still, to have thee stand_ Capell. _I'll still forget, to have thee still stand_ Rann.

_forget, to_] Q3 Q4 Ff. _forget to_ Q2 Q5.

_thee_] _the_ Q3 F2.

[516] _home_] _name_ F2 F3 F4.

[517] _farther_] Qq. _further_ (Q1) Ff.

[518] _Who ... her_] (Q1) Capell. _That his_ Qq Ff. _That ... her_ Pope.

_a_] om. Q4.

[519] _silk thread plucks it back again_] Pope. _silke thred puts it backe againe_ (Q1). _silken thred plucks it backe againe_ Qq F1 (_threed_, Q2). _silken thred plucks it againe_ F2 F3 F4.

[520] _loving-jealous_] Theobald. _loving jealous_ Qq Ff.

[521] _Good night ... tell._] See note (VI).

[522] [Exit.] Pope. F2 F3 F4 after line 186. om. Qq F1.

[523] _father's cell_] (Q1) Capell. _Friers close cell_ Qq F3 F4. _Fries close cell_ F1 F2.

[524] SCENE III] Hanmer. SCENE IV Rowe. SCENE V. Capell.

Friar Laurence's cell.] Malone. A Monastery. Rowe. Fields near a Convent. Capell.

[525] Enter....] Rowe. Enter Frier alone with a basket. Qq Ff. Enter Frier Francis. (Q1).

[526] _The ... wheels_:] Omitted in F2 F3 F4. See note (VI).

[527] _Chequering_] _Checking_ Q2.

[528] _flecked darkness_] Steevens, from (Q1). _fleckeld darknesse_ Qq. _fleckled darknesse_ F1. _darkness flecker'd_ Pope. _flecker'd darkness_ Capell.

[529] _path ... fiery_] (Q1) Boswell. _path_, _and Titans burning_ Qq F1. _path-way made by Titan's_ Pope.

[530] _up-fill_] _fill up_ Pope.

[531] _baleful_] _haleful_ Brae conj.

_precious-juiced_] Pope. _precious juiced_ Qq Ff.

[532] _mother is_] _mother in_ Q4 Q5.

[533] _virtues_] _vertures_ Q4.

[534] _herbs, plants_] (Q1) Capell. _plants, hearbes_ Qq F1 F3 F4. _plaints, hearbs_ F2. _herbs, stems or herbs, flowers_ Theobald conj.

[535] _to_] _to't_ Hanmer.

[536] _from ... stumbling_] _to vice, and stumbles_ (Q1) Pope. _from's true birth stumbling_ Hanmer.

[537] _sometime's by action_] Capell. _sometimes by action_ (Q1). _sometime by action_ Qq Ff. _sometime by action's_ Theobald.

[538] _small_] (Q1) Pope. _weake_ Qq Ff.

[539] _medicine_] _medic'nal_ Warburton. _med'cine's_ Capell conj.

[540] _smelt, with that part_] Ff. _smelt with that part,_ Qq. _smelt, with that sense_ Pope. _smelt, with that act_ Collier (Collier MS.). _smelt to, with that_ Anon. conj., from (Q1).

[541] _slays_] _staies_ Q2.

_senses_] Q5 F4. _sences_ Q2 Q4 F1 F2 F3. _sence_ Q3.

[542] _opposed_] _oppos'd_ F3 F4.

_kings_] _kinds_ Rowe (ed. 2). _foes_ (Q1) Pope. _kin_ Warburton. _things_ Anon. conj.

[543] Enter Romeo.] Pope. Qq Ff after line 22.

[544] _Benedicite_] _Benedicitie_ Q2. _Benedecite_ F1. Continued to Romeo by Rann (Anon. conj. Gent. Mag. LX. 681).

[545] _sweet_] _soon_ (Q1) Boswell.

_saluteth me_] (Q1) Qq F1. _salute thine_ F2. _salute them_ F3 F4. _salutes mine ear_ Rowe.

[546] _distemper'd_] Q5 F4. _distempered_ The rest.

[547] _lodges_] Qq F1. _lodgeth_ (Q1) F2 F3 F4.

[548] _unbruised_] _unbusied_ Collier MS.

[549] _by some_] (Q1) Pope. _with some_ Qq Ff.

[550] _wounded: both_] Ff. _wounded, both_ (Q1) Q3 Q4. _wounded both_, Q2. _wounded; both_ Q5.

[551] _and_] Qq. _rest_ Ff.

[552] _daughter_] _daunger_ F2.

[553] _thee_] _the_ F2 F4.

[554] _Saint_] F4. _S._ The rest.

[555] _that_] _whom_ (Q1) Pope.

[556] _Jesu Maria_] _Holy Saint Francis_ Johnson.

[557] _sallow_] _fallow_ F2 F3 F4.

[558] _thrown_] _throne_ Q4.

[559] _ring yet_] (Q1) Pope. _yet ringing_ Q2 Q3 F1. _yet ring_ Q4 F2 Q5 F3 F4.

_mine_] Q2 Q5. _my_ (Q1) Q3 Q4 Ff.

[560] _cheek_] _check_ F3.

[561] _this_] _this_: Q5.

_sentence_] _sedtence_ F2.

[562] _in, another_] _in an other_ Q2. _in another_ F2.

[563] _thee_] _the_ F2.

_chide not: she whom I_] _chide not, she whom I_ (Q1) Pope. _chide me not, her I_ Qq Ff.

[564] _and could_] (Q1) Pope. _that could_ Qq Ff.

[565] _go_] _and goe_ Q4 Q5.

[566] _households' rancour_] Capell. _housholds rancor_ Qq. _houshould rancor_ F1. _houshold rancord_ F2 F3. _houshold-rancour_ F4.

[567] SCENE IV.] Hanmer. SCENE V. Rowe. ACT III. SCENE I. Capell.

A street.] Capell. The street. Rowe.

[568] _Where_] _Why, where_ Capell, reading as verse, and ending the lines _be?... father's; ... man._

_devil_] F3 F4. _deule_ Q2. _deu'le_ Q3 Q4. _deu le_ F1. _devile_ F2. _dev'll_ Q5.

[569] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse in Steevens.

[570] _Ah_] (Q1) Malone. _Why_ Qq Ff. _Ay_ Capell.

[571] _Ah ... mad_] Verse in (Q1) Qq. Prose in Ff.

[572] _Tybalt ... house_] Verse in (Q1) Theobald. Prose in Qq Ff.

[573] _kinsman_] _kisman_ Q2.

_to_] _of_ (Q1) Capell.

[574] _shot_] (Q1) Capell. _runne_ or _run_ Qq Ff.

_thorough_] (Q1) Capell. _through_ Qq Ff.

[575] Ben.] (Q1) Ff. Ro. or Rom. Qq.

[576] _Why ... you. O_] Capell, from (Q1). _Why ... Tybalt?_ Mer. _More ... cats. Oh_ Qq Ff. _Why ... Tybalt?_ Mer. _More ... cats? Oh_ Theobald. _Why ... Tybalt more ... cats?_ Mer. O Rann.

[577] _prince_] _the prince_ Johnson (1771).

_he's_] _he is_ (Q1) Capell.

[578] _prick-song_] _pricksongs_ F4. _prick'd songs_ Johnson.

[579] _rests ... rest_] Malone, from (Q1). _he rests, his minum rests_ Q2. _he rests his minum rests_ Q3 Q4 Q5. _he rests his minum_ Ff. _rests his minum_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[580] _very_] _wery_ F2.

_duellist_] F4. _dualist_ The rest.

[581] _the hai!_] _the Hay._ Qq Ff. _the, hay!--_ Theobald. _the--hay!_ Capell.

[582] _affecting_] _affected_ Pope.

[583] _fantasticoes_] (Q1) Capell. _phantacies_ Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2. _phantasies_ Q5 F3 F4.

[584] _tuners_] _turners_ Rowe.

_accents_] (Q1) Q5. _accent_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff.

_By Jesu_] (Q1) Qq. _Jesu_ Ff. om. Johnson.

[585] _perdona-mi's_] Edd. (Globe ed.). _pardona' mees_ Q4 Q5. _pardonmees_ (Q1). _pardons mees_ Q2. _pardon mees_ Q3. _pardon-mee's_ F1 F2. _pardon-me's_ F3 F4. _pardonnez-moy's_ Theobald.

[586] _they_] _the_ F2.

[587] _bones, their bones_] Qq Ff. _bon's, their bon's_ Theobald. _buon's, their buon's_ Anon. conj.

Enter Romeo.] Qq Ff. Transferred by Dyce to follow _purpose_, line 41.

[588] _Here comes Romeo_] Once only in (Q1) Pope.

[589] _Petrarch_] _Petrach_ Q2.

_was but_] (Q1) Pope. _was_ Qq Ff.

[590] _hildings_] _hildinsgs_ F1 F2.

[591] _so, but not_] _so: but now_ Hanmer (Warburton).

[592] _bon jour_] _Bonieur_ Q2 Q4. _Bonieur_ Q3.

[593] _slop_] _stop_ Pope.

_You gave ... night_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[594] _What counterfeit ... no longer_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[595] _good_] Qq. om. Ff.

[596] _courtesy_] _coursie_ F2 F3.

[597] _court'sy_] _courtesie_ F2 F3 F4. _cursie_ Qq F1.

[598] _courteous_] _curtuous_ Q2.

[599] _Well said_:] Capell, from (Q1). _Sure wit_ Q2. _Sure wit_, The rest. _Sure wit--_ Rowe. _Sir wit_, Anon. conj. _Sheer wit!_ Malone conj.

[600] _solely_] _solie_ (Q1). _soly_ Qq. _sole--_ Ff. _sole_ Dyce (ed. 1).

[601] _O ... singleness_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[602] _wits faint_] Q5. _wits faints_ Q2 Q3 Q4 F1. _wit faints_ F2 F3 F4. _wits fail_ (Q1) Steevens.

[603] _Switch ... match_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[604] _Switch ... switch_] Pope. _Swits ... swits_ Qq Ff. _Switches ... switches_ Anon. conj.

_or I'll_] _or--I'll_ Johnson. _for I_ Capell.

[605] _thy wits_] (Q1) Capell. _our wits_ Qq Ff.

_I have_] (Q1) Capell. _I am_ Qq Ff.

[606] _wild-goose_] _wild goats_ Grey conj.

[607] _Thou wast_] Qq F1. _Thou wert_ (Q1). _Thou was_ F2 F3 F4.

[608] _Thy ... sauce_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[609] _bitter sweeting_] Qq. _bitter-sweeting_ Ff.

[610] _well_] _then well_ Q2.

_in to_] (Q1) Qq. _into_ Ff.

[611] _thee_] _the_ F2 F3 F4.

_a broad_] (Q1) Qq. _abroad_ Ff. _broad_ Rowe (ed. 2). _abroad_, Farmer conj. _abroad--_ Collier.

[612] _now_] om. Rowe (ed. 2).

[613] _art thou sociable_] _thou art sociable_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[614] _hide_] _hid_ F1.

_bauble_] F4. _bable_ The rest.

[615] _for_] (Q1) Qq F4. _or_ F1 F2 F3.

[616] Enter ...] Enter Nurse and her man. Qq Ff (after _longer_, line 92).

[617] Mer. _A sail, a sail!_] Mer. _A sail, a sail, a sail!_ (Q1) Capell. _A sayle, a sayle._ Qq Ff (continued to Romeo).

[618] Ben.] (Q1) Capell. Mer. Qq Ff.

[619] _Good_] _Do good_ Pope, from (Q1).

[620] _Good ... face._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff, and elsewhere.

[621] _fairer of the two_] (Q1) Pope. _fairer face_ Qq Ff.

[622] _gentlewoman_] _gentlewomen_ F2 F3.

[623] _Is it_] _It is_ F2. _Is is_ Rowe (ed. 1).

[624] _you_] _yee_ Q2.

[625] _himself_] _for himself_ (Q1) Collier.

[626] _well said_] (Q1) Qq. _said_ F1 F2 F3. _sad_ F4.

[627] _quoth a'_] _quath a_ Q3 Q4. _quatha_ F1. _quotha_ F2 F3 F4.

_Gentlemen_] _Gentleman_ F2 F3.

[628] _the_] om. (Q1) Pope.

[629] _If you_] _If thou_ Q4 Q5.

[630] _indite_] _endite_ Qq F1. _invite_ (Q1) F3 F4. _envite_ F2.

_some_] om. (Q1) Capell.

[631] Rom. _What ... spent_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[632] [Sings.] Singing. Capell. om. Qq Ff. He walkes by them, and sings. (Q1).

[633] _An old ... spent._] As in Capell. Two lines in Qq Ff. Four in (Q1) Collier.

[634] [singing] Dyce (Farmer conj.).

[635] [Exeunt ...] Exeunt. Qq. Exit. Mercutio, Benvolio. Ff.

[636] _Marry, farewell!_] (Q1) Malone. om. Qq Ff.

[637] _ropery_] _roguery_ F4. _roperipe_ (Q1).

[638] _hear_] _here_ F2.

[639] _to_] _too_ Q2.

[640] _An_] Pope. _And_ Qq Ff.

[641] _an_] Pope. & F1. _and_ The rest.

[642] _his_] _her_ Q5.

_flirt-gills_] _flurt-gills_ (Q1). _flurt gills_ Q2. _flurt gils_ Q3. _flurt-gils_ Ff. _gil-flurts_ Q4 Q5.

_skains-mates_] F4. _skaines mates_ (Q1) Qq F1 F2. _skains mates_ F3. _scurvy mates_ S. Walker conj. _stews-mates_ Bubier conj.

[643] [Turning to Peter.] Edd. She turnes to Peter her man. (Q1). om. Qq Ff. To her man. Rowe.

[644] _bade ... bade_] _bad ... bad_ (Q1) Capell. _bid ... bid_ Qq Ff.

[645] _into a_] (Q1) Theobald. _in a_ Qq Ff. _into_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[646] _gentlewoman_] _gentlewomen_ F2.

[647] _weak_] _wicked_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[648] Rom.] Nur. F1.

_Nurse_,] om. Rowe.

[649] _thee--_] F2 F3 F4. _thee._ Qq F1.

_unto_] _onto_ F2.

[650] _me._] _mee._ Q5. _me?_ or _mee?_ The rest.

[651] _a_] om. Q4.

[652] _Bid ... afternoon_;] Edd. One line in Q2 Q3 Ff. Prose in Q4 Q5. Capell ends the first line at _shrift_, reading as verse.

[653] _Laurence'_] _Lawrence_ Qq Ff. _Lawrence's_ Rowe.

[654] _stay_] Qq. _stay thou_ Ff.

_nurse, behind ... wall_:] _nurse: behind ... wall_ Anon. conj.

[655] _thee_] _the_ F2 F3.

_tackled_] _tackling_ Q5.

[656] _quit_] Q2. _quite_ The rest.

[657] _Farewell ... mistress._] Omitted by Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, and Johnson.

_mistress_] _mistress, nurse_ Martley conj.

[658] _say'st_] _sayest_ Pope.

[659] _Is ... away?_] Verse by Rowe. Prose in Qq Ff.

[660] _hear_] F3 F4. _here_ Qq. _heare_ F1 F2.

[661] _away?_] Q5 F4. _away._ The rest.

[662] _I warrant_] F2 F3 F4. _Warrant_ Qq Ff.

_man's_] Rowe. _mans_ Qq. _man_ Ff.

[663] As verse by Capell.

[664] _lief_] _leeve_ Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2 F3. _liefe_ Q5. _live_ F4.

_see a_] _a see_ F1.

[665] _I anger_] _I do anger_ Capell.

_anger her_] _angerer_ Q4.

[666] _versal_] _varsal_ Hanmer.

[667] _Ah_,] Rowe. _A_ Qq Ff.

_dog's name_;] _dog, name_ Q2. _dog's_; or _dog's letter_, Farmer conj.

[668] _R is for the--No_;] Edd. (Ritson conj.). _R. is for the no_, Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff. _R. is for the no._ Q5. _R. is for thee? No;_ Theobald (Warburton). _R. is not for thee_, Hanmer. _R is for the nonce;_ Steevens, 1773 (Johnson conj.). _R for thee? no_; Capell. _R is for the dog. No;_ Steevens, 1778 (Tyrwhitt conj.).

[669] _some_] _no_ Rowe.

[670] _that it would_] _'Twould_ Capell.

[671] _lady._] _lady--_ Pope.

[672] _Ay_] _I_ Qq Ff. om. Rowe.

_times._ [Exit Romeo] _Peter!_] Dyce. _times Peter._ Q2. _times· Peter?_ Q3. _times Peter?_ Q4. _times. Peter?_ Ff. _times. Peter._ Q5. _times. Peter,--_ Theobald.

[Exit Romeo.] Rowe after line 201. om. Qq Ff.

[673] _Anon!_] _Anon._ Qq Ff. _Anon?_ Theobald.

[674] _Peter ... apace._] Edd. _Peter, take my fan, and go before._ (Q1) Steevens. _Before and apace._ Qq Ff (_Before_, F4). _Take my fan, and go before._ Pope. _Before; and walk apace_ Capell.

[Exeunt.] Rowe. Ex. omnes. (Q1). Exit. Qq. Exit Nurse and Peter. Ff (Ex. F4).

[675] SCENE V.] Hanmer. SCENE VI. Rowe. ACT III. SCENE II. Capell.

Capulet's orchard.] Capulet's House. Rowe. Capulet's Garden. Capell.

[676] _promised_] _promis'd_ Q5.

[677] _heralds_] (Q1) Q5. _heraulds_ Q2 Q3 Q4 F4. _herauld_ F1 F3. _herauid_ F2.

[678] _glide_] F4. _glides_ The rest.

_sun's beams_] _sun-beams_ Rowe.

[679] _back_] _black_ Collier MS.

_louring_] _lowring_ Qq Ff.

[680] _nimble-pinion'd_] Pope inserted the hyphen.

[681] _wind-swift_] Q3 Ff. _wind swift_ Q2. _winde swift_ Q4. _winde-swift_ Q5.

[682] _Is three_] Q3 Q4 Q5. _Is there_ Q2. _I three_ Ff. _Ay three_ Rowe. _Are three_ Hanmer.

_yet_] _and yet_ Rowe.

[683] _She would be as_] Qq F1. _She'ld be as_ F2 F3 F4. _She would be_ Anon. conj.

[684] _And his to me_:] _And his to me would send her back again._ Seymour conj. _And his to me would bandy her again_ Keightley.

[685] _And ... dead_;] Arranged as in Rowe. See note (VII).

[686] _many feign_] _marry, feign_ Johnson. _marry, seem_ Keightley. _marry, fare_ Grant White. _tarry, faith,_ Bullock conj. _move, i'faith_, Dyce conj.

[687] _pale_] _dull_ Keightley (Collier MS.).

[688] Enter Nurse, with Peter.] Theobald. Enter Nurse. Qq Ff.

[689] _O God_] _O good_ Johnson.

_O honey nurse_] om. Pope.

[690] [Exit Peter.] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[691] _Now ... sad?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_look'st_] Q4 Q5 F4. _lookest_ Q2 Q3 F1. _lookes_ F2. _looks_ F3.

[692] _Though ... face._] Omitted by (Q1) Pope.

[693] _news be_] F4. _newes be_ Q2 Q5. _newes, be_ Q3 Q4 F1 F2. _news, be_ F3.

[694] _shamest_] Q2 Q3. _sham'st_ Q4 Ff Q5.

[695] _give me leave_] _let me rest_ (Q1) Pope.

[696] _jaunce_] _iaunce_ Q2 Q3. _jaunt_ The rest.

_had_] om. Q2.

[697] _thee_] _the_ F2.

_good, good_] _good_ F2 F3 F4.

[698] _Jesu_] om. Johnson.

[699] _Jesu ... excuse._] _Give me some Aqua vitæ._ Pope, from (Q1).

[700] _that_] Qq F1. om. F2. _how_ F3 F4.

[701] _Is_] Jul. _Is_ Pope.

[702] _Well ... home?_] As verse by Capell.

[703] _better than any_] _no better than another_ Warburton conj.

_leg excels_] Qq. _legs excels_ F1 F2 F3. _legs excell_ F4.

[704] _a body_] Q2 Q3 F1. _body_ Q4 Q5. _a bawdy_ F2 F3 F4. _a baudie_ (Q1). _baw-dy_ Rowe. _bo-dy_ Pope.

[705] _I'll_] _I_ F2 F3 F4.

_gentle as a_] Qq. _gentle a_ Ff.

[706] _this_] _this this_ F1.

[707] _My back ... side,--_] _My back!--o' t'other side,--_ Lloyd conj.

_o' t' other_] _a tother_ Qq Ff.

_ah_] Q5. _a_ Q2 Q3 Q4. _o_ F1. _O_ F2 F3 F4.

[708] _jauncing_] _jaunsing_ Q2 Q3. _jaunting_ The rest.

[709] _not well_] Qq. _so well_ F1. _so ill_ F2 F3 F4.

[710] _Your ... mother?_] Prose by Edd. Three lines, ending _gentleman, ... handsome, ... mother?_ in Qq Ff. Capell ends the second line at _warrant_: Steevens at _handsome, and_.

[711] _Where ... repliest!_] As in Rowe. Two lines, the first ending _be?_, in Qq. Three, ending _mother?... be?... repliest,_ in Ff.

[712] _your mother_] Qq F1. _my mother_ F2 F3 F4.

_O ... dear!_] Omitted by Johnson.

[713] _hie_] Q5 F4. _high_ The rest.

_Laurence'_] _Lawrence_ Qq Ff. _Lawrence's_ Rowe.

[714] _They'll ... any_] _They'll be in scarlet straitway at my_ Hanmer. _They'll be in scarlet straight at my next_ S. Walker conj. _They will be straight in scarlet at my_ Keightley.

[715] _climb_] _climde_ Q3 F1.

[716] SCENE VI.] Hanmer. SCENE VII. Rowe. ACT III. SCENE III. Capell.

Friar Laurence's cell.] Capell. The Monastery. Rowe.

[717] Enter Frier Laurence....] Rowe. Enter Friar.... Qq Ff.

[718] _love-devouring_] Hyphen omitted in F2 F3.

_death do what he_] _death, do what thou_ Seymour conj.

[719] _enough I_] _inough. I_ F1 F2. _enough. I_ F3.

[720] _triumph_] _triumph_: F1.

[721] _kiss_] _meet_ Pope.

[722] _loathsome_] _lothsomnesse_ Q4 Q5.

_his_] _its_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[723] _gossamer ... idles_] _gossamour ... idles_ F4. _gossamours ... ydeles_ Q2. _gossamours ... ydles_ Q3 F1 F2. _gossamours ... idles_ Q4 Q5 F3. _gossamours ... idle_ Malone.

[724] _else is_] Q2 Q3 F4. _else in_ Q4 F1 F2 Q5 F3. _else are_ Rowe.

[725] Rom.] Fri. F1.

[726] _music's_] _musicke_ Q2 Q3.

[727] _such_] _such such_ F1.

[728] _sum up sum of half my_] Q2 Q3. _summe up some of halfe my_ Q4 Q5. _sum up some of halfe my_ Ff. _sum up one half of my_ Pope. _sum up sums of half my_ Johnson. _sum up half my sum of_ Capell. _sum the sum of half my_ Anon. conj. ap. Rann.

[729] [Exeunt.] F2 F3 F4. om. Qq F1.