Chapter VIII: Act IV: SCENE I. Friar Laurence's cell.1170

_Enter_ FRIAR LAURENCE _and_ PARIS.[1171]

_Fri. L._ On Thursday, sir? the time is very short.

_Par._ My father Capulet will have it so;
And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.[1172]

_Fri. L._ You say you do not know the lady's mind:
Uneven is the course; I like it not.[1173] 5

_Par._ Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,
And therefore have I little talk'd of love,[1174]
For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.
Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous
That she doth give her sorrow so much sway,[1175] 10
And in his wisdom hastes our marriage,
To stop the inundation of her tears,
Which, too much minded by herself alone,
May be put from her by society:
Now do you know the reason of this haste.[1176] 15

_Fri. L._ [_Aside_] I would I knew not why it should be slow'd.[1177]
Look, sir, here comes the lady toward my cell.[1178]

_Enter_ JULIET.

_Par._ Happily met, my lady and my wife![1179]

_Jul._ That may be, sir, when I may be a wife.

_Par._ That may be must be, love, on Thursday next. 20

_Jul._ What must be shall be.

_Fri. L._ That's a certain text.

_Par._ Come you to make confession to this father?

_Jul._ To answer that, I should confess to you.[1180]

_Par._ Do not deny to him that you love me.

_Jul._ I will confess to you that I love him. 25

_Par._ So will ye, I am sure, that you love me.[1181]

_Jul._ If I do so, it will be of more price,
Being spoke behind your back, than to your face.[1182]

_Par._ Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears.

_Jul._ The tears have got small victory by that; 30
For it was bad enough before their spite.

_Par._ Thou wrong'st it more than tears with that report.

_Jul._ That is no slander, sir, which is a truth,[1183]
And what I spake, I spake it to my face.[1184]

_Par._ Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it. 35

_Jul._ It may be so, for it is not mine own.
Are you at leisure, holy father, now;
Or shall I come to you at evening mass?

_Fri. L._ My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now.
My lord, we must entreat the time alone.[1185] 40

_Par._ God shield I should disturb devotion![1186]
Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye:[1187]
Till then, adieu, and keep this holy kiss.[1187][1188] [_Exit._

_Jul._ O, shut the door, and when thou hast done so,[1189]
Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help![1190] 45

_Fri. L._ Ah, Juliet, I already know thy grief;[1191]
It strains me past the compass of my wits:[1192]
I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,
On Thursday next be married to this county.[1193]

_Jul._ Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this,[1194] 50
Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it:
If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help,
Do thou but call my resolution wise,
And with this knife I'll help it presently.[1195]
God join'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands; 55
And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo's seal'd,[1196]
Shall be the label to another deed,
Or my true heart with treacherous revolt
Turn to another, this shall slay them both:
Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time,[1197] 60
Give me some present counsel; or, behold,
'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife
Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that[1198]
Which the commission of thy years and art[1199]
Could to no issue of true honour bring. 65
Be not so long to speak; I long to die,[1200]
If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy.

_Fr. L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope,
Which craves as desperate an execution[1201]
As that is desperate which we would prevent. 70
If, rather than to marry County Paris,
Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202]
Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203]
A thing like death to chide away this shame,
That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75
And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

_Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris,
From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206]
Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207]
Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80
Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208]
O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209]
With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210]
Or bid me go into a new-made grave,
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85
Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212]
And I will do it without fear or doubt,
To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213]

_Fri. L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214]
To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90
To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214]
Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216]
Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214]
And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217]
When presently through all thy veins shall run 95
A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218]
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218]
No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219]
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220]
To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100
Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222]
Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223]
Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223]
And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224]
Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.
Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes
To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead:[1225]
Then, as the manner of our country is,
In thy best robes uncover'd on the bier[1226] 110
Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault[1227]
Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.
In the mean time, against thou shalt awake,
Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift;
And hither shall he come: and he and I[1228] 115
Will watch thy waking, and that very night[1228]
Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.
And this shall free thee from this present shame,[1229]
If no inconstant toy nor womanish fear[1230]
Abate thy valour in the acting it. 120

_Jul._ Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear![1231]

_Fri. L._ Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous
In this resolve: I'll send a friar with speed
To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord.

_Jul._ Love give me strength! and strength shall help
afford.[1232] 125
Farewell, dear father![1233] [_Exeunt._

SCENE II. _Hall in Capulet's house._[1234]

_Enter_ CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, Nurse, _and two_ Servingmen.[1235]

_Cap._ So many guests invite as here are writ.[1236]

[_Exit First Servant._

Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks.[1237]

_Sec. Serv._ You shall have none ill, sir, for I'll try if[1238][1239]
they can lick their fingers.[1239]

_Cap._ How canst thou try them so?[1239] 5

_Sec. Serv._ Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick[1238][1239]
his own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his fingers[1239]
goes not with me.[1239]

_Cap._ Go, be gone.[1239][1240][1241] [_Exit Sec. Servant._
We shall be much unfurnish'd for this time.[1241] 10
What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence?[1241]

_Nurse._ Ay, forsooth.

_Cap._ Well, he may chance to do some good on her:
A peevish self-will'd harlotry it is.[1242]

_Enter_ JULIET.

_Nurse._ See where she comes from shrift with merry look.[1243] 15

_Cap._ How now, my headstrong! where have you been gadding?[1244]

_Jul._ Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin[1245]
Of disobedient opposition
To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd[1246]
By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here, 20
To beg your pardon: pardon, I beseech you![1247]
Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.

_Cap._ Send for the county; go tell him of this:[1248]
I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.

_Jul._ I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell, 25
And gave him what becomed love I might,[1249]
Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.

_Cap._ Why, I am glad on't; this is well: stand up:
This is as't should be. Let me see the county;[1250]
Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither.[1251] 30
Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar,[1252]
All our whole city is much bound to him.[1253]

_Jul._ Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,
To help me sort such needful ornaments
As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow? 35

_La. Cap._ No, not till Thursday; there is time enough.[1254]

_Cap._ Go, nurse, go with her: we'll to church to-morrow.[1255]

[_Exeunt Juliet and Nurse._

_La. Cap._ We shall be short in our provision:[1256]
'Tis now near night.

_Cap._ Tush, I will stir about,
And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife: 40
Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her;
I'll not to bed to-night; let me alone;
I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho!
They are all forth: well, I will walk myself
To County Paris, to prepare him up[1257] 45
Against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light,[1258]
Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.[1259] [_Exeunt._

SCENE III. _Juliet's chamber._[1260]

_Enter_ JULIET _and_ Nurse.

_Jul._ Ay, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse,
I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night;
For I have need of many orisons
To move the heavens to smile upon my state,
Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin.[1261] 5

_Enter_ LADY CAPULET.[1262]

_La. Cap._ What, are you busy, ho? need you my help?[1263][1264]

_Jul._ No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries
As are behoveful for our state to-morrow:[1265]
So please you, let me now be left alone,
And let the nurse this night sit up with you, 10
For I am sure you have your hands full all
In this so sudden business.

_La. Cap._ Good night:
Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need.

[_Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse._[1266]

_Jul._ Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.[1267]
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, 15
That almost freezes up the heat of life:[1268]
I'll call them back again to comfort me.[1269]
Nurse!--What should she do here?[1270]
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Come, vial.[1271][1272] 20
What if this mixture do not work at all?[1271]
Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?[1273]
No, no: this shall forbid it. Lie thou there[1274]

[_Laying down a dagger._

What if it be a poison, which the friar
Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead, 25
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd,
Because he married me before to Romeo?
I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,
For he hath still been tried a holy man.[1275]
How if, when I am laid into the tomb, 30
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point.[1276]
Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,[1277]
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,[1278]
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?[1279] 35
Or, if I live, is it not very like,[1280]
The horrible conceit of death and night,
Together with the terror of the place,[1281]
As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
Where for this many hundred years the bones[1282] 40
Of all my buried ancestors are pack'd;
Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,
At some hours in the night spirits resort;
Alack, alack, is it not like that I[1283] 45
So early waking, what with loathsome smells
And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth,[1284]
That living mortals hearing them run mad:
O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,[1285]
Environed with all these hideous fears?[1286] 50
And madly play with my forefathers' joints?[1287]
And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?
And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone,[1288]
As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?
O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost 55
Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body[1289]
Upon a rapier's point: stay, Tybalt, stay![1289][1290]
Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.[1291]

[_She falls upon her bed, within the curtains._[1292]

SCENE IV. _Hall in Capulet's house._[1293]

_Enter_ LADY CAPULET _and_ Nurse.[1294]

_La. Cap._ Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.[1295]

_Nurse._ They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.[1296]

_Enter_ CAPULET.[1297]

_Cap._ Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd,[1298]
The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:[1299]
Look to the baked meats, good Angelica: 5
Spare not for cost.[1300][1301]

_Nurse._ Go, you cot-quean, go,[1301]
Get you to bed; faith, you'll be sick to-morrow
For this night's watching.

_Cap._ No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now[1302]
All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.[1303] 10

_La. Cap._ Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;
But I will watch you from such watching now.

[_Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse._[1304]

_Cap._ A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood![1305][1306]

_Enter three or four_ Servingmen, _with spits, and logs, and baskets_.

Now, fellow,
What's there?[1305][1307]

_First Serv._ Things for the cook, sir, but I know not what.[1308] 15

_Cap._ Make haste, make haste. [_Exit First Serv._] Sirrah, fetch
drier logs:[1309]
Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.

_Sec. Serv._ I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,[1310]
And never trouble Peter for the matter.

_Cap._ Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha! 20
Thou shalt be logger-head. [_Exit Sec. Serv._] Good faith, 'tis
day:[1311]
The county will be here with music straight,
For so he said he would. [_Music within_] I hear him near.[1312]
Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say![1313]

_Re-enter_ Nurse.

Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up; 25
I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste,
Make haste: the bridegroom he is come already:[1314][1315]
Make haste, I say.[1315][1316] [_Exeunt._

SCENE V. _Juliet's chamber._[1317]

_Enter_ Nurse.[1318]

_Nurse._ Mistress! what, mistress! Juliet! fast, I warrant her,
she:[1319]
Why, lamb! why, lady! fie, you slug-a-bed!
Why, love, I say! madam! sweet-heart! why, bride!
What, not a word? you take your pennyworths now;[1320]
Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant, 5
The County Paris hath set up his rest
That you shall rest but little. God forgive me,[1321]
Marry, and amen, how sound is she asleep!
I needs must wake her. Madam, madam, madam![1322]
Ay, let the county take you in your bed; 10
He'll fright you up, i' faith. Will it not be?[1323]

[_Undraws the curtains._[1324]

What, dress'd! and in your clothes! and down again!
I must needs wake you. Lady! lady! lady![1325]
Alas, alas! Help, help! my lady's dead!
O, well-a-day, that ever I was born![1326] 15
Some aqua-vitæ, ho! My lord! my lady![1327]

_Enter_ LADY CAPULET.

_La. Cap._ What noise is here?

_Nurse._ O lamentable day!

_La. Cap._ What is the matter?

_Nurse._ Look, look! O heavy day![1328]

_La. Cap._ O me, O me! My child, my only life,
Revive, look up, or I will die with thee. 20
Help, help! call help.[1329]

_Enter_ CAPULET.

_Cap._ For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come.

_Nurse._ She's dead, deceased, she's dead; alack the day!

_La. Cap._ Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead![1330]

_Cap._ Ha! let me see her. Out, alas! she's cold; 25
Her blood is settled and her joints are stiff;
Life and these lips have long been separated.
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

_Nurse._ O lamentable day![1331]

_La. Cap._ O woeful time![1332] 30

_Cap._ Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail,[1332]
Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak.[1332][1333]

_Enter_ FRIAR LAURENCE _and_ PARIS, _with_ Musicians.

_Fri. L._ Come, is the bride ready to go to church?[1334]

_Cap._ Ready to go, but never to return.
O son, the night before thy wedding-day[1335] 35
Hath death lain with thy wife: see, there she lies,[1336]
Flower as she was, deflowered by him.[1337]
Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir;[1338]
My daughter he hath wedded: I will die,[1338]
And leave him all; life, living, all is Death's.[1338][1339] 40

_Par._ Have I thought long to see this morning's face,[1340]
And doth it give me such a sight as this?

_La. Cap._ Accurst, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!
Most miserable hour that e'er time saw[1341]
In lasting labour of his pilgrimage! 45
But one, poor one, one poor and loving child,[1342]
But one thing to rejoice and solace in,
And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight![1343]

_Nurse._ O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day, most woeful day, 50
That ever, ever, I did yet behold![1344]
O day! O day! O day! O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this:
O woeful day, O woeful day!

_Par._ Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain![1345] 55
Most detestable death, by thee beguiled,[1345]
By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown![1345]
O love! O life! not life, but love in death![1345]

_Cap._ Despised, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd![1345]
Uncomfortable time, why camest thou now[1345] 60
To murder, murder our solemnity?[1345]
O child! O child! my soul, and not my child![1345]
Dead art thou! Alack, my child is dead;[1345][1346]
And with my child my joys are buried![1345]

_Fri. L._ Peace, ho, for shame! confusion's cure lives
not[1347][1348] 65
In these confusions. Heaven and yourself[1347]
Had part in this fair maid; now heaven hath all,[1347]
And all the better is it for the maid:[1347]
Your part in her you could not keep from death;[1347]
But heaven keeps his part in eternal life.[1347] 70
The most you sought was her promotion,[1347]
For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced:[1347][1349]
And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced[1347]
Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?[1347][1350]
O, in this love, you love your child so ill,[1347] 75
That you run mad, seeing that she is well:[1347]
She's not well married that lives married long,[1347]
But she's best married that dies married young.[1347][1351]
Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary[1347]
On this fair corse, and, as the custom is,[1347] 80
In all her best array bear her to church:[1347][1352]
For though fond nature bids us all lament,[1347]
Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment.[1347][1353]

_Cap._ All things that we ordained festival,[1354]
Turn from their office to black funeral: 85
Our instruments to melancholy bells;
Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast;[1355]
Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
And all things change them to the contrary.[1356] 90

_Fri. L._ Sir, go you in; and, madam, go with him;[1356]
And go, Sir Paris; every one prepare[1356]
To follow this fair corse unto her grave:[1356]
The heavens do lour upon you for some ill;[1356]
Move them no more by crossing their high will.[1356][1357] 95

[_Exeunt Capulet, Lady Capulet, Paris, and Friar._

_First Mus._ Faith, we may put up our pipes, and be gone.[1358]

_Nurse._ Honest good fellows, ah, put up, put up;
For, well you know, this is a pitiful case.[1359] [_Exit._

_First Mus._ Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended.[1360]

_Enter_ PETER.

_Pet._ Musicians, O, musicians, 'Heart's ease,
Heart's[1361][1362][1363] 100
ease:' O, an you will have me live, play 'Heart's ease.'[1362][1364]

_First Mus._ Why 'Heart's ease'?[1365]

_Pet._ O, musicians, because my heart itself plays 'My
heart is full of woe:' O, play me some merry dump, to[1366][1367]
comfort me.[1367] 105

_First Mus._ Not a dump we; 'tis no time to play now.[1368]

_Pet._ You will not then?

_First Mus._ No.[1369]

_Pet._ I will then give it you soundly.

_First Mus._ What will you give us? 110

_Pet._ No money, on my faith, but the gleek; I will[1370][1371]
give you the minstrel.[1370][1371][1372]

_First Mus._ Then will I give you the serving-creature.[1371]

_Pet._ Then will I lay the serving-creature's dagger on[1371][1373]
your pate. I will carry no crotchets: I'll re you, I'll
fa[1371][1374] 115
you; do you note me?[1374]

_First Mus._ An you re us and fa us, you note us.[1375]

_Sec. Mus._ Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out[1376]
your wit.[1376]

_Pet._ Then have at you with my wit! I will dry-beat[1377][1378] 120
you with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. Answer[1378][1379]
me like men:
'When griping grief the heart doth wound[1380][1381]
And doleful dumps the mind oppress,[1380][1382]
Then music with her silver sound'--[1380] 125
why 'silver sound'? why 'music with her silver sound'?--
What say you, Simon Catling?

_First Mus._ Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound.[1383]

_Pet._ Pretty! What say you, Hugh Rebeck?[1384]

_Sec. Mus._ I say, 'silver sound,' because musicians 130
sound for silver.

_Pet._ Pretty too! What say you, James Soundpost?[1385]

_Third Mus._ Faith, I know not what to say.

_Pet._ O, I cry you mercy; you are the singer: I will[1386]
say for you. It is 'music with her silver sound,' because[1386] 135
musicians have no gold for sounding:[1386][1387]
'Then music with her silver sound[1388]
With speedy help doth lend redress.'[1388][1389] [_Exit._

_First Mus._ What a pestilent knave is this same![1390]

_Sec. Mus._ Hang him, Jack! Come, we'll in here; tarry[1391] 140
for the mourners, and stay dinner. [_Exeunt._[1392]

FOOTNOTES:

[1170] ACT IV. SCENE I.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

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

[1171] Enter....] Rowe. Enter Frier and Countie Paris. Qq Ff (Count F2 F3 F4).

[1172] _nothing_] _something_ Collier conj.

_slow to slack his_] _slacke to slow his_ (Q1). _slow to back_ Johnson conj. _slack,--too slow's his_ Jackson conj.

[1173] _is_] _in_ Warburton.

[1174] _talk'd_] _talkt_ Q5. _talke_ Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2 Q5. _talk_ F3 F4.

[1175] _doth_] (Q1) Q3 Q4 F1 F2 Q5. _do_ Q2. _should_ F3 F4.

_sway_] _way_ Collier MS.

[1176] _haste._] Q2. _hast._ (Q1). _hast?_ or _haste?_ The rest.

[1177] [Aside] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[1178] _toward_] Q2. _towards_ The rest.

[1179] _Happily met_] _Welcome my love_ (Q1) Pope.

_my wife_] _my life_ Johnson conj.

[1180] _I should_] _were to_ (Q1) Pope.

[1181] _ye_] _you_ Capell.

[1182] _Being_] _Benig_ F1.

[1183] _no_] om. Q4.]

_slander ... a truth_] _wrong, sir, that is but a truth_ Capell, from (Q1). _wrong, sir, that that is a truth_ Jackson conj.

_a truth_] (Q1) Qq F1. _truth_ F2 F3 F4. _but truth_ Rowe.

[1184] _spake, I spake_] _speak, I speak_ F4.

_my_] _thy_ F4

[1185] _we_] (Q1) Qq. _you_ F1. _I_ F2 F3 F4.

[1186] _God shield I_] Q4. _Godshield, I_ Q2 Q3 Q5. _Godsheild: I_ F1 F2. _God shield: I_ F3. _God shield, I_ F4.

[1187] _Juliet ... kiss_] _Juliet farewel, and keep this holy kiss._ (Q1) Pope.

[1188] [Exit.] Qq. Exit Paris. Ff.

[1189] _O_,] _Go_ (Q1) Pope.

[1190] _cure_] (Q1) Q5. _care_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff.

[1191] _Ah_] (Q1) Capell. _O_ Qq Ff.

_thy_] _your_ Pope.

[1192] _It ... wits_] Omitted by Pope.

_strains_] _streames_ F1.

[1193] _county_] _count_ F2 F3 F4.

[1194] _hear'st_] Q5. _hearest_ The rest.

[1195] _with this_] _with' his_ F1. _with' this_ F2.

[1196] _Romeo's_] Q5. _Romeos_ Q2 Q3 Q4. _Romeo_ Ff.

[1197] _long-experienced_] _long-experienc'd_ Pope. _long experienst_ Q2 Q3. _long experien'st_ Q4 F2 F3. _long expetiens't_ F1. _long experienc't_ Q5. _long experienc'd_ F4.

[1198] _umpire_] _umpeere_ Q2 Q3 F1.

[1199] _thy_] _my_ F3 F4.

[1200] _Be ... die_] _Speak not, be brief; for I desire to die_ (Q1) Pope. _Speak now, be brief; for I desire to die_ Hanmer.

[1201] _an_] om. S. Walker conj.

[1202] _of will_] _or will_ (Q1) Pope.

_slay_] (Q1) Q4 Q5 F3 F4. _stay_ Q2 Q3 F1. _lay_ F2.

[1203] _is it_] _it is_ F3 F4.

[1204] _copest_] _coapst_ (Q1) Q2 Q3. _coop'st_ Q4 Q5. _coap'st_ F1 F2 F3. _cop'st_ F4. _copes_ Hanmer.

_from_] _fro_ F1 F2 F3.

_it_;] _it._ (Q1) Qq. _it_: Ff.

[1205] _And, if_] _An if_ Delius conj.

[1206] _off_] (Q1) Q5 F3 F4. _of_ The rest.

_yonder_] (Q1) Pope. _any_ Qq Ff.

[1207] _Or walk ... bears_] _Or chain me to some sleepy mountain's top Where roaring bears and savage lions roam_ Pope, from (Q1). _Or chain ... top Where savage bears and roaring lions roam_ Johnson conj.

[1208] _shut_] (Q1) Pope. _hide_ Qq Ff.

[1209] _O'er-covr'd_] _Orecoverd_ Q2. _Orecovered_ Q3 F1 F2. _Ore covered_ Q4 Q5. _Ore-covered_ F3. _O're-covered_ F4.

[1210] _reeky_] _reekie_ Qq. _reckie_ F1. _recky_ F2 F3 F4.

_yellow_] Q4 Q5 Ff. _yeolow_ (Q1). _yealow_ Q2 Q3.

_chapless_] _chapels_ Q2. _chappels_ Q3 F1.

[1211] _shroud_] Q4 Q5. _grave_ Ff. Omitted in Q2 Q3. _tomb_ Malone conj.

[1212] _told_] _nam'd_ (Q1) Pope.

[1213] _unstain'd_] _unstained_ F1.

[1214] _Hold ... bed_] For these lines Pope substitutes three lines _Hold ... vial_ from (Q1).

[1215] _Wednesday_] Q5 F4. _wendsday_ Q2. _wensday_ Q3 Q4 F1 F2 F3.

[1216] _thy nurse_] _the nurse_ Q2.

[1217] _distilled_] (Q1) Pope. _distilling_ Qq Ff.

[1218] _for ... surcease_] _which shall seize Each vital spirit; for no pulse shall keep His nat'ral progress, but surcease to beat_ (Q1) Pope.

[1219] _breath_] _breast_ Q2.

[1220] _fade_] _fade_: Q2.

[1221] _To paly_] Q5. _Too paly_ Q4. _Too many_ Q2 Q3. _To many_ F1. _To mealy_ F2 F3 F4.

_thy_] Q2 Q5. _the_ Q3 Q4 Ff.

[1222] _shuts_] _shut_ F1.

[1223] _Each part ... like death_] Omitted by Pope.

[1224] _borrow'd_] Q5. _borrowed_ The rest.

[1225] _thee_] _the_ F2.

[1226] _In_] _Is_ Q2.

_uncover'd_] _uncovered_ Q2.

_bier_] Hanmer. _beere, Be borne to buriall in thy kindreds grave:_ Qq Ff. (_beer ... born_ F3 F4). See note (IX).

[1227] _shalt_] _shall_ Q2.

[1228] _and ... waking_] Q3 Q4 Q5. _an ... walking_ Q2. Omitted in Ff.

[1229] _And ... shame_] Omitted by Pope.

[1230] _inconstant_] _unconstant_ F3 F4.

_toy_] _ioy_ Q4. _joy_ Q5.

[1231] _Give ... not me_] _Give me, oh give me, tell not me_ Pope. _Give me, oh give me, tell me not_ Theobald. _O, give 't me, give 't me! tell not me_ Lettsom conj.

_fear_] _care_ F1.

[Taking the vial. Pope.

[1232] _Love ... afford_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[1233] [Exeunt.] Q4 Q5. Exit. Q2 Q3 Ff. om. Rowe.

[1234] SCENE II.] Rowe. SCENE III. Capell.

Hall....] Capell. Capulet's House. Rowe.

[1235] Enter....] Enter Father Capulet, Mother, Nurse, and Serving men, two or three. Qq Ff. Enter ... Servant. Malone.

[1236] [Exit....] to a Servant, who goes out. Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[1237] _twenty_] _dainty_ Jackson conj.

[1238] Sec. Serv.] Ser. Qq Ff. 1. S. Capell. 2. Serv. Malone.

[1239] Sec. Serv. _You ... gone._] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1240] [Exit....] Exit Servant. Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[1241] _Go ... Laurence?_] As in Theobald. Two lines, the first ending _time_ in Qq. Prose in Ff.

[1242] _self-will'd_] _selfewield_ Q2. _selfe willde_ Q3. _selfe-will'd_ Q4 Q5. _selfewild_ F1 F2. _self-wild_ F3 F4.

[1243] _See ... look._] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _shrift_, in Ff.

_shrift ... look_] _her confession_ Pope, from (Q1).

[1244] _How ... gadding?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[1245] _me_] om. Q4 Q5.

[1246] _enjoin'd_] _injoin'd_ Q5.

[1247] _To beg_] _And beg_ Pope.

[1248] _county_] _count_ F2 F3 F4.

[1249] _becomed_] Ff. _becomd_ Q2 Q3. _becommed_ Q4 Q5. _becoming_ Rowe.

[1250] _as't_] _ast_ Q2 Q3.

[1251] _hither_] _hether_ Q3.

[1252] _reverend holy_] _holy reverent_ (Q1). _holy reverend_ Q5.

[1253] _to him_] _to hymn_ Warburton conj. _unto_ (Q1) Steevens conj.

[1254] _there is_] _there's_ F1.

[1255] _Go ... to-morrow._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_to-morrow._] _to-Morrow?_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[Exeunt ... Nurse.] Ff. Exeunt. Qq.

[1256] _provision_] _privision_ Q5.

[1257] _him up_] Ff. _up him_ Qq.

[1258] _heart is_] _heart's_ Pope.

[1259] [Exeunt.] Q4 Q5. Exit. Q2 Q3. Exeunt Father and Mother. Ff.

[1260] SCENE III.] Rowe. SCENE IV. Capell.

Juliet's chamber.] Rowe.

[1261] _know'st_] Ff Q5. _knowest_ Q2 Q3 Q4.

[1262] Enter Lady Capulet.] Rowe. Enter Mother. Qq Ff.

[1263] La. Cap.] Mo. Qq Ff.

[1264] _ho? need you_] _do you need_ (Q1) Pope.

[1265] _behoveful_] F4. _behoofefull_ Q2 Q3 Q4. _behoovefull_ F1 F2 Q5. _behooveful_ F3.

[1266] [Exeunt ... Nurse.] Capell. Exeunt. Qq Ff.

[1267] _Farewell!_] As in Qq. As a separate line in Ff.

[1268] _life_] Qq. _fire_ Ff.

[1269] _again_] om. F4.

[1270] _Nurse!--_] Hanmer. _Nurse--_ Rowe. _Nurse_; Q5. _Nurse_, The rest.

[1271] _Come, vial! What_] As in Hanmer. In the same line in Qq Ff. _Come, phial, come!_ Keightley, reading _Nurse ... come!_ as two lines, the first ending _scene_.

[1272] _vial_] F4. _violl_ Q2. _viall_ The rest.

[1273] _Shall ... morning_] _Shall I of force be marry'd to the Count_ Pope, from (Q1).

_then_] om. F4.

[1274] _it. Lie_] _it:--knife, lie_ Lettsom conj. from (Q1).

[Laying ...] Johnson. Pointing to a Dagger. Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[1275] _a holy_] _an holy_ Q5.

_man._] _man: I will not entertain so bad a thought._ (Q1) Steevens.

[1276] _Come_] _Comes_ Pope.

[1277] _stifled_] _stiffled_ Q2 Q3 Q4.

[1278] _mouth_] _month_ Rowe.

[1279] _And ... comes?_] Omitted by Pope.

_die_] _be_ Theobald.

[1280]. _is it_] _it is_ Rowe.

[1281] _Together_] _Togither_ Q2.

[1282] _this_] Q2. _these_ The rest.

[1283] _Alack, alack_] _Alas, alas!_ Pope.

[1284] _shrieks_] F4. _shrikes_ The rest.

_mandrakes'_] Malone (Capell's Errata). _mandrakes_ Qq Ff. _mandrake's_ Johnson.

[1285] _O, if I wake_] Hanmer. _O if I walke_ Q2 Q3 F1. _Or if I wake_ Q4 Q5. _Or if I walke_ F2. _Or if I walk_ F3 F4.

[1286] _Environed_] _Inviron'd_ F4. _Invironed_ The rest.

[1287] _joints_] _ioynes_ Q4.

[1288] _great kinsman's_] _great-kinsman's_ Delius conj.

[1289] _that ... point_] Omitted by Pope, from (Q1).

[1290] _a_] Qq. _my_ F1. _his_ F2 F3 F4.

_stay!_] _stay Romeo,--_ or _stay,--Romeo_, Nicholson conj.

[1291] _Romeo, ... thee_] (Q1) Pope. _Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, heeres drinke, I drinke to thee._ Qq Ff, substantially, (_Rome, Romeo, Romeo_, F2). _Romeo, here's drink! Romeo, I drink to thee._ Johnson. _Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, I drink to thee._ Knight (Stratford Ed.). See note (XI).

_I come, this do_] _Romeo, here's drink_ Nicholson conj.

[1292] She ... curtains.] (Q1) Edd. She throws herself on the bed. Pope. Omitted in Qq Ff. Exit. Rowe. Drinks; throws away the Vial, and casts herself upon the Bed. Scene closes. Capell.

[1293] SCENE IV.] Rowe. SCENE V. Capell.

Hall ...] A Hall. Rowe. Capulet's Hall. Theobald.

[1294] Lady Capulet] Rowe. Lady of the house, Qq Ff.

[1295] _Hold_,] As in Qq. A separate line in Ff.

[1296] [Exit Nurse. Singer.

[1297] Enter Capulet.] Rowe. Enter old Capulet. Qq Ff. Enter Capulet, hastily. Capell.

[1298] _Come ... crow'd_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_crow'd_] Ff. _crowed_ Qq.

[1299] _rung_] _roong_ Q2. _roung_ Q3 Q4.

_o'clock_] Theobald. _a clock_ Qq Ff.

[1300] Nurse.] La. Cap. Singer.

_Go_] _Go, go_ Theobald.

[1301] _go, Get_] _go.--_[To Cap.] _Get_ Hunter conj.

[1302] _what!_] om. F4.

[1303] _lesser_] Q2. _lesse_ Q3 Q4 F1 Q5. _a lesse_ F2 F3. _a less_ F4.

[1304] [Exeunt ...] Exit Lady and Nurse. Qq Ff. Exit Lady Capulet. Singer.

[1305] _A ... there?_] Arranged as by Capell. One line in Qq. Two, the second beginning _Now_, in Ff.

[1306] _jealous-hood_] Hyphen inserted in F4.

Servingmen] om. Qq Ff.

[1307] _What's_] _whats_ F2. _what's_ F3 F4. _what is_ Qq. _what_ F1.

[1308] First Ser.] 1. S. Capell. Fel. Qq Ff. Ser. Rowe.

[1309] _haste._ [Exit ...] _haste._ [Exit Ser. Capell. _haste_ Q2 Q3 Q4. _haste_, Ff. _haste_; Q5.

[1310] Sec. Ser.] 2. S. Capell. Fel. Qq Ff. Ser. Rowe.

[1311] [Exit Sec. Serv.] Edd. Exit. Capell (after line 19). om. Qq Ff.

_faith_] Q4 F2 Q5 F3 F4. _father_ Q2 Q3 F1.

[1312] [Music within.] Capell, after line 22. Play Musicke. (after line 21) Qq Ff. Play Musick. (after line 23) Hanmer.

[1313] Re-enter Nurse.] Dyce. Enter Nurse. Qq Ff.

[1314] _Make ... already_:] Omitted by Rowe and Pope.

[1315] _Make ... say._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[1316] [Exeunt.] Capell. Ex. Capulet and Nurse, severally. Theobald. Exit Capulet. Rowe. Omitted in Qq Ff.

[1317] SCENE V.] Pope. SCENE VI. Capell.

Juliet's Chamber.] Juliet's Chamber, Juliet on a bed. Theobald. Scene draws and discovers Juliet on a Bed. Rowe. Anti-room of Juliet's Chamber. Door of the Chamber open, and Juliet upon her Bed. Capell.

[1318] Enter Nurse.] Hanmer. Re-enter Nurse. Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[1319] _she_] om. F2 F3 F4.

[1320] _pennyworths_] _penniworth_ Q5.

[1321] _shall_] _should_ Rowe.

_little. God ... me_,] _little: ... me_ Q5. _little, ... me._ Q2 Q3 Q4. _little, ... me_: Ff.

[1322] _needs must_] Q2. _must needs_ The rest.

[goes towards the Bed. Capell.

[1323] _fright_] _ferret_ Long MS.

[1324] [Undraws the curtains.] Capell.

[1325] _wake_] _awake_ Rowe.

[shaking her. Capell.

[1326] _well-a-day_] _wereaday_ Q2. _weleaday_ Q3. _weary day_ Anon. conj.

[1327] Enter Lady Capulet.] Enter Mother. (Q1) Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[1328] _Look, look_] _Look_ Pope.

[1329] Enter Capulet.] Rowe. Enter Father. Qq Ff.

[1330] La. Cap. _Alack ... dead!_] Omitted by Pope.

[1331] _all_] om. Rowe.

_field._] _field. Accursed time! unfortunate old man!_ Pope, from (Q1).

[1332] _Nurse. O ... speak._] Omitted by Pope.

[1333] Enter ...] Enter Frier and the Countie, with the Musitians. Q4. Enter ... County, with Musicians. Q5. Enter Frier and the Countie. Q2 Q3 Ff.

[1334] Fri. L.] Par. (Q1) Staunton.

[1335] _thy_] _the_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[1336] _wife_] _bride_ (Q1) Steevens (1778).

_see_] F2 F3 F4. om. Qq F1. See note (XII).

[1337] _deflowered_] Steevens (1793). _deflowred_ Qq F1. _deflowred now_ F2. _deflowr'd now_ F3 F4. _deflowered now_ Johnson.

[1338] _death is my heir ... Death's_] Omitted by Pope.

[1339] _all; life, living._] Collier. _all life living,_ Q2 Q3 Ff. _all, life, living_, Q4 Q5. _all; live leaving_, Capell.

[1340] _long_] _loue_ Q2.

[1341] _e'er time_] _time e'er_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[1342] _one poor and_] _one dear and_ S. Walker conj.

_loving_] _living_ Johnson (1771).

[1343] _catch'd_] _snatch'd_ Capell conj.

[1344] _behold_] _bedold_ Q2.

[1345] Par. _Beguiled ... buried_] Omitted by Pope.

[1346] _Dead art thou!_] _Dead art thou! dead;_ Theobald. _Dead, dead, art thou!_ Malone conj.

[1347] See note (XIII).

[1348] _confusion's cure_] Theobald. _confusions care_ Q2. _confusions, care_ Q3 Q4 Q5. _confusions: care_ Ff. _confusions? care_ Rowe.

_lives_] _lies_ Lettsom conj.

[1349] _she_] _that she_ F2 F3 F4.

[1350] _itself_] _himselfe_ Q5.

[1351] _But ... young_] Omitted in Johnson (1771).

_dies married_] _dies unmarried_ Theobald conj.

[1352] _In all_] Capell, from (Q1). _And in_ Qq Ff. _All in_ Rowe.

[1353] _fond_] F2 F3 F4. _some_ Qq F1.

_us all_] Qq. _all us_ Ff.

[1354] _ordained_] _ordain'd for_ Anon. conj.

[1355] _burial_] _funerall_ Q5.

[1356]. _And all ... will._] Omitted by Pope.

[1357] [Exeunt....] Theobald. Exeunt manet. Q2 Q3. Exeunt manent Musici. Q4. Exeunt. Ff. Exeunt. Manent Musici. Q5. They all but the Nurse goe foorth, casting Rosemary on her and shutting the Curtens. Enter Musitions. (Q1).

[1358] SCENE VI. Pope.

First Mus.] 1. M. Capell. Musi. Qq. Mu. Ff.

[1359] _pitiful_] _piteous_ Steevens conj.

[Exit.] Exit Nurse. Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[1360] First Mus.] 1. M. Capell. Fid. Qq. Mu. Ff.

_by my_] _my my_ Q2.

[Exit omnes. Q2. Exeunt omnes. Q3 Q4 Q5.

Enter Peter.] Q4 Ff Q5. Enter Will Kemp. Q2. Enter Will Kempe. Q3. Enter Servingman. (Q1). Enter another Servant. Capell.

[1361] Pet.] Q4 Ff. Peter. Q2 Q3. Pe. Q5. Ser. Capell.

[1362] _Musicians ... ease._] Prose by Pope. Two lines in Qq. Three in Ff.

[1363] _Heart's ... Heart's_] _harts ... harts_ Q2 Q3. _hatts ... harts_ Q4.

[1364] _an you_] Pope. _and you_ Qq Ff.

_play_] _why, play_ Johnson.

_Heart's_] _harts_ Q2.

[1365] First Mus.] 1. M. Capell. Fidler. Q2 Q3 Q4. Mu. Ff. Fid. Q5.

[1366] _of woe_] Q4 Q5. Omitted in Q2 Q3 Ff.

[1367] _O ... comfort me._] Qq. Omitted in Ff.

[1368] First Mus.] 1. M. Capell. Minstrels. Q2 Q3 Q4. Mu. Ff. Min. Q5.

[1369] First Mus.] 1. M. Capell. Minst. Q2. Min. Q3 Q4 Q5. Mu. Ff, and similarly in 110, 113, 117.

[1370] _No ... minstrel._] Prose first by Theobald. Two lines in Qq Ff.

[1371] _but ... crotchets_:] Omitted by Pope.

[1372] _minstrel_] _ministrell_ F2 F3. _ministrel_ F4.

[1373] _lay_] _say_ Q4.

[1374] _I will ... note me?_] Prose in Q4 Ff. Two lines, the first ending _fa_, in Q2 Q3. Two lines, the first ending _fa you_, in Q5.

[1375] _An_] Pope. _And_ Ff.

[1376] _Pray ... your wit._] Prose in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

[1377] _Then ... wit!_] Given to Peter in Q4 Q5. Continued to Sec. Mus. in Q2 Q3 Ff.

[1378] _I will ... dagger._] Omitted by Pope.

[1379] _an iron wit_] _my iron wit_ Collier MS.

[1380] _When ... sound--_] Verse in (Q1). Prose in Qq Ff.

[1381] _grief_] Hanmer. _griefe_ (Q1). _griefes_ Qq F1 F2. _griefs_ F3 F4.

[1382] And ... oppress,] (Q1) Capell. Omitted in Qq Ff.

[1383] First Mus.] 1. (Q1). 1. Mus. Johnson. Minst. Q2. Min. Q3 Q4 Q5. Mu. Ff.

[1384] _Pretty!_] Pope. _Pretie_, (Q1). _Prates_, Q2. _Pratest_, Q3 Ff. _Pratee_, Q4 Q5. _Pratest?_ Rowe. _Thou pratest_: Collier (Collier MS.).

_Rebeck_] Rowe. _Rebick_ Q2 Q3 Q4 F3 F4. _Rebicke_ F1 F2 Q5.

[1385] _Pretty too!_] Pope, from (Q1). _Prates to_, Q2. _Pratest to_, Q3 F1 F2. _Pratee to_, Q4. _Pratee too_: Q5. _Pratest too,_ F3 F4. _Thou pratest too_: Collier (Collier MS.).

_James Soundpost_] _Samuel Sound-board_ Pope.

[1386] _O ... sounding_:] Prose in Pope. Three lines in Qq Ff.

[1387] _musicians_] _such fellows as you_ (Q1) Pope.

_no gold_] _seldom gold_ (Q1) Capell.

[1388] _Then ... redress._] Omitted by (Q1) Pope. Two lines by Johnson. One in Q2 Q3 Q4. Prose in Ff Q5. _The music ... sound Doth lend redress._ Theobald.

[1389] [Exit.] Exit, singing. Theobald.

[1390] First Mus.] 1. M. Capell. Min. Qq. Mu. Ff.

[1391] _him, Jack!_] Hanmer. _him Iacke,_ or _him Jack_, Qq Ff. _him.--Jack_, Johnson.

[1392] [Exeunt.] (Q1) Q4 Q5. Exit. The rest.