Chapter IX: Act V: SCENE I. Mantua. A street.1393 (1)

_Enter_ ROMEO.

_Rom._ If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,[1394]
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand:
My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne,[1395]
And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit[1396]
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. 5
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead--
Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think!--[1397]
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips
That I revived and was an emperor.
Ah me! how sweet is love itself possess'd, 10
When but love's shadows are so rich in joy![1398]

_Enter_ BALTHASAR, _booted_.

News from Verona! How now, Balthasar!
Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?
How doth my lady? Is my father well?
How fares my Juliet? that I ask again;[1399] 15
For nothing can be ill, if she be well.

_Bal._ Then she is well, and nothing can be ill:[1400]
Her body sleeps in Capels' monument,[1401]
And her immortal part with angels lives.[1402]
I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault, 20
And presently took post to tell it you:
O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,
Since you did leave it for my office, sir.[1403]

_Rom._ Is it e'en so? then I defy you, stars![1404]
Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper,[1405] 25
And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night.

_Bal._ I do beseech you, sir, have patience:[1400][1406]
Your looks are pale and wild, and do import
Some misadventure.

_Rom._ Tush, thou art deceived:
Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do. 30
Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?

_Bal._ No, my good lord.[1400][1407]

_Rom._ No matter: get thee gone,[1408]
And hire those horses; I'll be with thee straight.

[_Exit Balthasar._

Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night.
Let's see for means:--O mischief, thou art swift 35
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men![1409]
I do remember an apothecary,
And hereabouts a' dwells, which late I noted[1410]
In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Culling of simples; meagre were his looks; 40
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:
And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,[1411]
An alligator stuff'd and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
A beggarly account of empty boxes,[1412] 45
Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds,
Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses,
Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show.[1413]
Noting this penury, to myself I said,
An if a man did need a poison now,[1414] 50
Whose sale is present death in Mantua,[1415]
Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.
O, this same thought did but forerun my need,
And this same needy man must sell it me.
As I remember, this should be the house: 55
Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.
What, ho! apothecary![1416]

_Enter_ Apothecary.

_Ap._ Who calls so loud?

_Rom._ Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor;
Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have
A dram of poison; such soon-speeding gear[1417] 60
As will disperse itself through all the veins,
That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
As violently as hasty powder fired
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb. 65

_Ap._ Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law
Is death to any he that utters them.

_Rom._ Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks,[1418]
Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes,[1419] 70
Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back,[1420]
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law:
The world affords no law to make thee rich;
Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.

_Ap._ My poverty, but not my will, consents. 75

_Rom._ I pay thy poverty and not thy will.[1421]

_Ap._ Put this in any liquid thing you will,
And drink it off; and, if you had the strength
Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.

_Rom._ There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,[1422] 80
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,[1423]
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:[1424]
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none.
Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh.[1425]
Come, cordial and not poison, go with me 85
To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee. [_Exeunt._

SCENE II. _Friar Laurence's cell._[1426]

_Enter_ FRIAR JOHN.[1427]

_Fri. J._ Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho![1428]

_Enter_ FRIAR LAURENCE.

_Fri. L._ This same should be the voice of Friar John.
Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo?
Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.[1429]

_Fri. J._ Going to find a bare-foot brother out, 5
One of our order, to associate me,
Here in this city visiting the sick,[1430]
And finding him, the searchers of the town,[1430]
Suspecting that we both were in a house
Where the infectious pestilence did reign, 10
Seal'd up the doors and would not let us forth;
So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd.[1431]

_Fri. L._ Who bare my letter then to Romeo?[1432]

_Fri. J._ I could not send it,--here it is again,--[1433]
Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, 15
So fearful were they of infection.

_Fri. L._ Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood,
The letter was not nice, but full of charge[1434]
Of dear import, and the neglecting it
May do much danger. Friar John, go hence; 20
Get me an iron crow and bring it straight
Unto my cell.

_Fri. J._ Brother, I'll go and bring it thee.[1435] [_Exit._

_Fri. L._ Now must I to the monument alone;
Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake:[1436] 25
She will beshrew me much that Romeo
Hath had no notice of these accidents;
But I will write again to Mantua,
And keep her at my cell till Romeo come:
Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb! [_Exit._ 30

SCENE III. _A churchyard; in it a monument belonging to the Capulets._[1437]

_Enter_ PARIS _and his_ Page, _bearing flowers and a torch_.[1438]

_Par._ Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof:[1439]
Yet put it out, for I would not be seen.
Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along,[1440]
Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground;[1441]
So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread, 5
Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves,
But thou shalt hear it: whistle then to me,
As signal that thou hear'st something approach.[1442]
Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go.

_Page._ [_Aside_] I am almost afraid to stand alone[1443] 10
Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure.[1444] [_Retires._

_Par._ Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,--[1445][1446]
O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones;--[1446][1447]
Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,[1447][1448]
Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans:[1447] 15
The obsequies that I for thee will keep[1447]
Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.[1447][1449]

[_The Page whistles._

The boy gives warning something doth approach.
What cursed foot wanders this way to-night,[1450]
To cross my obsequies and true love's rite?[1451] 20
What, with a torch! Muffle me, night, awhile.[1452] [_Retires._

_Enter_ ROMEO _and_ BALTHASAR, _with a torch, mattock, &c._[1453]

_Rom._ Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.[1454]
Hold, take this letter; early in the morning
See thou deliver it to my lord and father.
Give me the light: upon thy life, I charge thee, 25
Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,[1455]
And do not interrupt me in my course.
Why I descend into this bed of death
Is partly to behold my lady's face,
But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger 30
A precious ring, a ring that I must use
In dear employment: therefore hence, be gone:
But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry
In what I farther shall intend to do,[1456]
By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint 35
And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:
The time and my intents are savage-wild,[1457]
More fierce and more inexorable far
Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

_Bal._ I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.[1458][1459] 40

_Rom._ So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou[1460]
that:
Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.[1458]

_Bal._ [_Aside_] For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout:[1461]
His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.[1462] [_Retires._

_Rom._ Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,[1463] 45
Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,
And in despite I'll cram thee with more food.[1464]

[_Opens the tomb._

_Par._ This is that banish'd haughty Montague
That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief,[1465] 50
It is supposed, the fair creature died,
And here is come to do some villanous shame
To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him.[1466]

[_Comes forward._

Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague![1467]
Can vengeance be pursued further than death? 55
Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee:[1468]
Obey, and go with me; for thou must die.

_Rom._ I must indeed, and therefore came I hither.
Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man;[1469]
Fly hence and leave me: think upon these gone;[1470] 60
Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,
Put not another sin upon my head,[1471]
By urging me to fury: O, be gone!
By heaven, I love thee better than myself,
For I come hither arm'd against myself: 65
Stay not, be gone: live, and hereafter say,[1472]
A madman's mercy bid thee run away.[1472][1473]

_Par._ I do defy thy conjurations[1474]
And apprehend thee for a felon here.

_Rom._ Wilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy![1475] 70

[_They fight._

_Page._ O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.[1476]

[_Exit._

_Par._ O, I am slain! [_Falls._] If thou be merciful,[1477]
Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.[1478] [_Dies._

_Rom._ In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face:[1479]
Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris![1480] 75
What said my man, when my betossed soul
Did not attend him as we rode? I think
He told me Paris should have married Juliet:
Said he not so? or did I dream it so?
Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet, 80
To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,
One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!
I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave;
A grave? O, no, a lantern, slaughter'd youth;[1481]
For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes[1482] 85
This vault a feasting presence full of light.[1482]
Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd.[1482][1483]

[_Laying Paris in the monument._

How oft when men are at the point of death[1482]
Have they been merry! which their keepers call[1482]
A lightning before death: O, how may I[1482][1484] 90
Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife![1482]
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,[1485]
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:
Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet[1486]
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, 95
And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
O, what more favour can I do to thee
Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
To sunder his that was thine enemy?[1487] 100
Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,
Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe[1488]
That unsubstantial death is amorous,[1488]
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour? 105
For fear of that, I still will stay with thee,
And never from this palace of dim night[1489]
Depart again: here, here will I remain[1490]
With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest, 110
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last![1491]
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death! 115
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide![1492]
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark.[1493]
Here's to my love! [_Drinks._] O true apothecary![1494]
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.[1495] [_Dies._ 120

_Enter, at the other end of the churchyard_, FRIAR LAURENCE, _with a_
_lantern, crow, and spade_.[1496]

_Fri. L._ Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night[1497]
Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there?[1498]

_Bal._ Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well.[1499]

_Fri. L._ Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend,
What torch is yond that vainly lends his light 125
To grubs and eyeless skulls? as I discern,[1500]
It burneth in the Capels' monument.[1501]

_Bal._ It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master,[1502]
One that you love.[1502][1503]

_Fri. L._ Who is it?

_Bal._ Romeo.[1502]

_Fri. L._ How long hath he been there?[1502]

_Bal._ Full half an hour.[1502] 130

_Fri. L._ Go with me to the vault.[1502]

_Bal._ I dare not, sir:
My master knows not but I am gone hence;
And fearfully did menace me with death,
If I did stay to look on his intents.[1504]

_Fri. L._ Stay, then; I'll go alone: fear comes upon me;[1505] 135
O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing.[1506]

_Bal._ As I did sleep under this yew-tree here,[1502][1507][1508]
I dreamt my master and another fought,[1507]
And That my master slew him.[1507]

_Fri. L._ Romeo![1509] [_Advances._
Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains 140
The stony entrance of this sepulchre?
What mean these masterless and gory swords
To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?[1510] [_Enters the tomb._
Romeo! O, pale! Who else? what, Paris too?
And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour[1511] 145
Is guilty of this lamentable chance!
The lady stirs.[1512] [_Juliet wakes._

_Jul._ O comfortable friar! where is my lord?[1513]
I do remember well where I should be,
And there I am: where is my Romeo?[1514] [_Noise within._ 150

_Fri. L._ I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest[1515]
Of death, contagion and unnatural sleep:
A greater power than we can contradict
Hath thwarted our intents: come, come away:[1516]
Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead; 155
And Paris too: come, I'll dispose of thee
Among a sisterhood of holy nuns:
Stay not to question, for the watch is coming;
Come, go, good Juliet; I dare no longer stay.[1517]

_Jul._ Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.[1518] 160

[_Exit Fri. L._

What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?[1519]
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:
O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop[1520]
To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, 165
To make me die with a restorative. [_Kisses him._[1521]
Thy lips are warm.

_First Watch._ [_Within_] Lead, boy: which way?[1522]

_Jul._ Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger![1523]

[_Snatching Romeo's dagger._

This is thy sheath [_Stabs herself_]; there rust, and let me die.

[_Falls on Romeo's body, and dies._[1524]

_Enter_ Watch, _with the_ Page _of_ PARIS.[1525]

_Page._ This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn.[1526] 170

_First Watch._ The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard:[1527]
Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach.[1528]
Pitiful sight! here lies the county slain;
And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,
Who here hath lain this two days buried.[1529] 175
Go, tell the prince: run to the Capulets:
Raise up the Montagues: some others search:[1530][1531]
We see the ground whereon these woes do lie;[1530][1532]
But the true ground of all these piteous woes[1530][1532]
We cannot without circumstance descry.[1532][1533] 180

_Re-enter some of the_ Watch, _with_ BALTHASAR.

_Sec. Watch._ Here's Romeo's man; we found him in the churchyard.[1534]

_First Watch._ Hold him in safety, till the prince come
hither.[1535][1536]

_Re-enter_ FRIAR LAURENCE, _and another_ Watchman.

THIRD WATCH. Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs and weeps:
We took this mattock and this spade from him,
As he was coming from this churchyard's side.[1537] 185

_First Watch._ A great suspicion: stay the friar too.[1535][1538]

_Enter the_ Prince _and_ Attendants.

_Prince._ What misadventure is so early up,[1539]
That calls our person from our morning rest?[1540]

_Enter_ CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, _and others_.[1541]

_Cap._ What should it be that they so shriek abroad?[1542]

_La. Cap._ The people in the street cry Romeo,[1543][1544] 190
Some Juliet, and some Paris, and all run
With open outcry toward our monument.[1545]

_Prince._ What fear is this which startles in our ears?[1546]

_First Watch._ Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain;[1547]
And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before, 195
Warm and new kill'd.

_Prince._ Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.[1548]

_First Watch._ Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's
man,[1547][1549]
With instruments upon them fit to open
These dead men's tombs.[1550] 200

_Cap._ O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds![1551]
This dagger hath mista'en, for, lo, his house[1552]
Is empty on the back of Montague,[1552]
And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom![1552][1553]

_La. Cap._ O me! this sight of death is as a bell 205
That warns my old age to a sepulchre.

_Enter_ MONTAGUE _and others_.[1554]

_Prince._ Come, Montague; for thou art early up,
To see thy son and heir more early down.[1555]

_Mon._ Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night;
Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:[1556] 210
What further woe conspires against mine age?[1557]

_Prince._ Look, and thou shalt see.[1558]

_Mon._ O thou untaught! what manners is in this,[1559]
To press before thy father to a grave?

_Prince._ Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,[1560] 215
Till we can clear these ambiguities
And know their spring, their head, their true descent;
And then will I be general of your woes
And lead you even to death: meantime forbear,
And let mischance be slave to patience. 220
Bring forth the parties of suspicion.

_Fri. L._ I am the greatest, able to do least,
Yet most suspected, as the time and place
Doth make against me, of this direful murder;[1561]
And here I stand, both to impeach and purge[1562] 225
Myself condemned and myself excused.

_Prince._ Then say at once what thou dost know in this.

_Fri. L._ I will be brief, for my short date of breath
Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet; 230
And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife:[1563]
I married them; and their stol'n marriage-day
Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death[1564]
Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from this city;
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined. 235
You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
Betroth'd and would have married her perforce
To County Paris: then comes she to me,
And with wild looks bid me devise some mean[1565]
To rid her from this second marriage, 240
Or in my cell there would she kill herself.
Then gave I her, so tutor'd by my art,
A sleeping potion; which so took effect
As I intended, for it wrought on her
The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo,[1566] 245
That he should hither come as this dire night,[1567]
To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,[1568]
Being the time the potion's force should cease.
But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
Was stay'd by accident, and yesternight 250
Return'd my letter back. Then all alone[1569]
At the prefixed hour of her waking[1570]
Came I to take her from her kindred's vault,
Meaning to keep her closely at my cell
Till I conveniently could send to Romeo: 255
But when I came, some minute ere the time[1571]
Of her awaking, here untimely lay[1572]
The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.
She wakes, and I entreated her come forth,[1573]
And bear this work of heaven with patience: 260
But then a noise did scare me from the tomb,[1574]
And she too desperate would not go with me,
But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
All this I know; and to the marriage[1575]
Her nurse is privy: and, if aught in this[1575][1576] 265
Miscarried by my fault, let my old life[1575]
Be sacrificed some hour before his time[1575][1577]
Unto the rigour of severest law.

_Prince._ We still have known thee for a holy man.[1578]
Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this?[1579] 270

_Bal._ I brought my master news of Juliet's death,[1580]
And then in post he came from Mantua
To this same place, to this same monument.[1581]
This letter he early bid me give his father,
And threaten'd me with death, going in the vault,[1582] 275
If I departed not and left him there.[1583]

_Prince._ Give me the letter; I will look on it.
Where is the county's page, that raised the watch?
Sirrah, what made your master in this place?

_Page._ He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave;[1584] 280
And bid me stand aloof, and so I did:
Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb;
And by and by my master drew on him;
And then I ran away to call the watch.

_Prince._ This letter doth make good the friar's words, 285
Their course of love, the tidings of her death:
And here he writes that he did buy a poison
Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal
Came to this vault to die and lie with Juliet.
Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! 290
See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!
And I, for winking at your discords too,
Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd.[1585]

_Cap._ O brother Montague, give me thy hand: 295
This is my daughter's jointure, for no more
Can I demand.

_Mon._ But I can give thee more:[1586]
For I will raise her statue in pure gold;
That whiles Verona by that name is known,[1587]
There shall no figure at such rate be set[1588] 300
As that of true and faithful Juliet.[1589]

_Cap._ As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie;[1590]
Poor sacrifices of our enmity!

_Prince._ A glooming peace this morning with it brings;[1591]
The sun for sorrow will not show his head: 305
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd and some punished:[1592]
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. [_Exeunt._[1593]

FOOTNOTES:

[1393] ACT V. SCENE I.] Rowe.

Mantua.] Rowe.

A street.] Capell.

[1394] _flattering truth of_] Qq Ff. _flattering eye of_ (Q1) Malone. _flattery of_ Pope (Otway's version). _flattering ruth of_ Warburton. _flattering eye off_ Jackson conj. _flattering death of_ Collier (Collier MS.). _flattering soother_, Singer conj. _flattering sooth of_ Grant White. _flattering signs of_ Bailey conj.

[1395] _lord_] _L._ Q2 Q3 F1.

_in_] _on_ Q5.

[1396] _this day an_] Qq. _thisan day an_ F1. _this winged_ F2 F3 F4.

[1397] _dream, that gives_] _dreames that gives_ Q4. _dreams that give_ Q5.

[1398] Enter....] Enter Balthasar his man booted. (Q1). Enter Romeos man. Q2 Q3 Ff. Enter Romeos man Balthazer. Q4 Q5.

[1399] _fares my Juliet_] (Q1) Steevens. _doth my Lady Juliet_ Qq Ff. _doth my Juliet_ Pope.

[1400] Bal.] Theobald. Man. Qq Ff.

[1401] _Capels'_] Malone. _Capels_ Qq Ff. _Capulet's_ F4. _Capulets'_ Warburton.

[1402] _lives_] _live_ F1.

[1403] _Since ... sir._] Omitted by Pope.

[1404] _Is ... stars!_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_e'en_] _in_ Q2. _even_ The rest.

_defy you_,] Pope. _defie my_ (Q1).

_denie you_ Q2 Q3 Q4 F1. _deny you_ F2 Q5 F3 F4.

[1405] _know'st_] Q5. _knowest_ The rest.

[1406] _I ... patience_:] _Pardon me sir, I dare not leave you thus._ Pope, from (Q1). _Pardon me, sir, I will not leave you thus._ Steevens (1793).

[1407] _my good_] _good my_ Rowe.

_No matter_] _Mo matter_ F1.

[1408] [Exit....] Exit Man. Rowe. Exit man, after _lord_, line 32, Qq Ff.

[1409] _thoughts_] _thought_ Rowe.

[1410] _a'_] _a_ Q2 Q3 Q4. om. F1. _he_ F2 Q5 F3 F4.

_which_] _whom_ Pope, from (Q1).

[1411] _tortoise_] _tortoyrs_ F1.

[1412] _beggarly_] _braggartly_ Warburton conj.

[1413] _scatter'd_] Theobald (ed. 2). _scattered_ Qq Ff.

[1414] _An if_] Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2. _And if_ (Q1) Q5 F3 F4.

[1415] _present_] _persent_ F1.

[1416] Enter Apothecary.] (Q1) Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[1417] _soon-speeding_] F4. _soon speeding_ F3. _soone spreading_ Q5. _soone speeding_ The rest.

[1418] _fear'st_] Ff Q5. _fearest_ Q2 Q3 Q4.

[1419] _starveth in_] _stareth in_ Rowe, ed. 2 (Otway's version). _stare within_ Pope. _stayeth in_ Jackson conj. _starteth in_ Anon. conj.

_thy_] _thine_ Q5 F3 F4.

[1420] _Contempt ... back_,] _Upon thy back hangs ragged misery_ (Q1) Malone.

_hangs upon_] _hang on_ F2 F3 F4. _hang upon_ Q5.

[1421] _pay_] (Q1) Q4 Q5. _pray_ Q2 Q3 Ff.

[1422] _There is_] Qq. _There's_ Ff.

_There ... souls_,] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[1423] _murder_] _murthers_ Q4. _murders_ Q5.

[1424] _mayst_] _maiest_ Q2 Q3 F1. _mai'st_ Q4. _mayest_ F2. _maist_ Q5 F3 F4.

[1425] _thyself in_] _thee into_ (Q1) Pope.

[1426] _Scene ii._] Rowe.

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

[1427] Enter Friar John.] Theobald. Enter Friar John to Friar Laurence. Qq Ff.

[1428] Enter Friar Laurence.] Omitted by Rowe.

[1429] _if his mind_] _if mind_ F2 F3 F4.

[1430] _Here ... sick, And ... town_,] _And ... town, Here ... sick,_ Malone conj. (withdrawn).

[1431] _my_] _may_ Q4.

[1432] _bare_] _bore_ Pope.

[1433] _could_] _cold_ Q4.

[1434] _nice_] _ice_ Jackson conj.

[1435] _it thee._] _it._ Hanmer.

[1436] _this_] _these_ Q5.

[1437] SCENE III.] Rowe.

A churchyard; ...] A Churchyard, in it, a noble Monument ... Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[1438] Enter ...] Enter Countie Paris and his Page with flowers and sweete water. (Q1). Enter Paris and his Page. Qq Ff. Enter Paris and his Page, with a Light. Rowe.

[1439] _aloof_] F4. _aloofe_ Qq. _aloft_ F1 F2 F3.

[1440] _yond yew-trees_] Pope. _this Ewtree_ (Q1). _yond young trees_ Qq Ff (_yong_ Q4).

[1441] _Holding thine_] Capell. _Keeping thine_ (Q1). _Holding thy_ Qq F1 F2. _Laying thy_ F3 F4.

[1442] _hear'st_] Rowe (ed. 2). _hearest_ Qq Ff.

[1443] [Aside] Marked first by Capell.

_stand alone_] _stand along_ F2. _stay alone_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[1444] [Retires.] Capell. Exit. F2 F3 F4. om. Qq F1.

[1445] [going up to the Tomb. Capell.

[1446] _strew,-- ... stones;--_] _strew,--(O woe, ... stones!)_ Staunton. _strew: O woe, ... stones!_ Capell. _strew: ... stones_, Qq Ff.

[1447] _O woe ... weep._] See note (XIV).

[1448] _dew_] _new_ Q5.

[1449] [The Page whistles.] The Boy whistles. Rowe. Whistle Boy. Qq Ff.

[1450] _way_] _wayes_ F1.

[1451] _rite_] Pope (ed. 2). _right_ Qq Ff. _rites_ (Q1) Pope (ed. 1).

[1452] _Muffle me, night_,] Rowe. _muffle me night_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff. _night muffle me_ Q5.

[Retires.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[1453] Enter ... mattock, &c.] Malone, following Capell. Enter Romeo, and Peter. Q2 Q3 Ff. Enter Romeo and Balthaser his man. Q4 Q5.

[1454] SCENE IV. Pope.

_that_] Q2 Ff. _the_ Q3 Q4 Q5.

[1455] _hear'st_] Ff Q5. _hearest_ Q2 Q3 Q4.

[1456] _farther_] Qq. _further_ Ff.

[1457] _savage-wild_] The hyphen inserted by Steevens.

[1458] Balt. or Bal.] Q4 Q5. Pet. The rest.

[1459] _you_] _ye_ Q2.

[1460] _show me friendship_] _win my favour_ (Q1) Pope.

[1461] [Aside] Marked first by Capell.

[1462] [Retires.] Balthasar retires. Hanmer. Exit. F2 F3 F4. om. Qq F1.

[1463] _detestable maw_] _maw detestable_ Hanmer.

[fixing his Mattock in the Tomb. Capell.

[1464] _despite_] _requite_ Keightley conj.

[Opens the tomb.] Breaking open the Monument. Rowe, after line 47.

[1465] _murder'd_] _murdred_ Qq Ff. _murthered_ Rowe.

[1466] [Comes forward.] Draws, and rushes forward. Capell, after line 54. om. Qq Ff.

[1467]. _unhallow'd_] Pope. _unhallowed_ Qq Ff. _unhollowed_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[1468] _villain_] _vallaine_ F1.

[1469] _Good gentle_] _Go, gentle_ Anon. conj.

[1470] _these_] Qq. _those_ Ff.

[1471] _Put_] _Pull_ Rowe. _Pluck_ Capell conj. _Heap_ (Q1) Malone.

[1472] _Stay ... away._] Omitted by Pope.

[1473] _bid_] _bad_ Q5.

[1474] _thy conjurations_] (Q1) Malone. _thy commiration_ Q2. _thy commisseration_ Q3 F1. _thy commiseration_ Q4 F2 Q5 F3 F4. _thy conjuration_ Capell. _commiseration_ Collier MS. _thy commination_ Mommsen conj.

[1475] [They fight.] (Q1). They Fight, Paris falls. Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[1476] Page.] Q4 Q5. Boy. (Q1). om. Q2 Q3. Pet. Ff. Page [without. Hanmer.

_O Lord, ... watch._] Printed in italics in Q2 Q3.

_the_] _thee_ Rowe (ed. 1).

[Exit.] Exit Page. Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[1477] [Falls.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[1478] [Dies.] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[1479] _In ... face_:] _Let me peruse this face:--In faith I will;--_ Seymour conj.

[1480] _Mercutio's_] _Mercutius_ Q3 F1 F2 F3.

[1481] _A grave ... youth_;] Omitted by Pope.

[1482] _and her ... lightning?_] Omitted by Pope.

[1483] _Death_] _Dead_ Dyce, ed. 2 (Lettsom conj.).

_lie_] _be_ F3 F4.

[Laying ...] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[1484] _how_] _now_ Johnson conj.

[1485] _suck'd_] _suck_ F2.

[1486] _art_] _are_ F1 F2.

[1487] _thine_] Qq. _thy_ Ff.

[1488] _shall ... amorous_] Theobald. _I will beleeve, Shall I beleeve that unsubstantiall death is amorous_ Qq Ff. _I will believe That ... amorous_ Pope.

[1489] _palace_] _pallat_ Q2.

_night_] _night._ Q2.

[1490] _Depart again_] See note (XV).

[throwing himself by her. Capell.

[1491] _world-wearied_] Q3 Q4 F1 Q5. _world wearied_ Q2. _worlds wearied_ F2 F3 F4. _world's wearied_ Rowe.

[1492] [pours it into a Cup. Capell.

[1493] _thy_] _my_ Pope.

[1494] [Drinks.] Drinks the poison. Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[1495] [Dies.] Theobald. Kisses her, and expires. Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[1496] Enter ...] Malone, after Capell. Enter Frier with Lanthorne, Crowe, and Spade. Qq Ff.

[1497] _Saint_] Q4 Q5. S. Q2. _St._ Q3 Ff.

_Francis_] _Frances_ Q2.

[1498] After this line Steevens, from (Q1), inserts _Who is it that consorts, so late, the dead?_

[1499] Bal.] Balt. Q4 Q5. Man. Q2 Q3 Ff.

[1500] _I_] om. F2 F3.

[1501] _Capels'_] _Capulet's_ F4. _Capulets'_ Theobald.

[1502] _It doth ... love._] As in Johnson. One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _sir_, in Ff.

[1503] _that you_] _you dearly_ Pope.

[1504] _intents_] Q5 F3 F4. _entents_ Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2.

[1505] _Stay, then_;] _Stay then_, Q5. _Stay then_ Q2. _Stay, then_ Q3 Q4 Ff.

_fear comes_] Qq. _feares comes_ F1. _feares come_ F2 F3 F4 (_fears_ F3 F4).

[1506] _unlucky_] _unthriftie_ Q2.

[1507] _As ... him._] om. Seymour conj.

[1508] _yew-tree_] Pope. _yong tree_ Q2. _young tree_ Q3 Q4 Ff Q5.

[1509] _Romeo!_] Rowe. _Romeo._ Qq Ff. _Romeo?--_ Capell.

[Advances.] Malone. leaves him, and goes forward. Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[1510] [Enters ...] enters the Monument. Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[1511] _unkind_] _vn knd_ F1. _unkn'd_ F2.

[1512] [Juliet wakes.] Juliet awaking. Pope. Juliet rises. (Q1). Juliet awakes, and looks about her. Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[1513] _where is_] Qq. _where's_ Ff.

[1514] [Noise within.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[1515] _noise. Lady_,] _noise! Lady_, Pope. _noyse Lady_, Qq Ff. _noise, Lady,_ Rowe.

[1516] _intents_] _entents_ Q3 F1 F2.

[1517] _Come ... stay_] Omitted by Pope.

[Noise again. Capell. om. Qq Ff.

_no longer stay_] _stay no longer_ Capell.

[1518] _not away_] _notuaway_ F1.

[Exit Fri. L.] Dyce. Exit. Qq Ff (after line 159). Exit, hastily, Capell (after line 159).

[1519] _love's_] _loves_ F1.

[1520] _drunk ... left_] _drunke ... left_ Q2. _drinke ... left_ Q3 Q4 Ff (_lest_ F1). _drinke ... leave_ (Q1) Q5.

[1521] _To ... restorative._] Omitted by Pope.

[Kisses him.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[1522] First Watch. [Within] Capell. Watch. Qq Ff.

_way?_] _way._ Q2.

[1523] _Yea, noise?_] As in Qq. In a separate line in Ff.

[Snatching ...] Steevens. taking Romeo's. Capell. Finding a dagger. Pope. om. Qq Ff.

[1524] _This is_] Q2 Q4 Q5. _Tis is_ Q3. _'Tis in_ Ff.

[Stabs herself] Kils herselfe. Ff (at the end of the line). om. Qq. She stabs herselfe and falles. (Q1).

_rust_] Qq Ff. _rest_ Singer, from (Q1).

[Falls ...] Malone. throws herself upon her Lover, and expires. Capell.

[1525] Enter Watch ...] Enter Watch, and the Page. Capell, from (Q1). Enter Boy and Watch. Qq Ff (after _warm_, line 167).

[1526] Page.] Capell. Watch boy. Q2 Q3. Boy. Q4 Q5 Ff.

_This ... burn_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

[1527] First Watch.] 1. W. Capell. Watch. Qq Ff (and elsewhere).

_The ... churchyard_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

_about the churchyard_] _the church-yard, about_ Hanmer.

[1528] _whoe'er_] _whom e'er_ Pope.

[Exeunt some of the Watch. Hanmer. Exeunt some of the Watch, the rest enter the Tomb. Capell.

[1529] _this_] Q2. _these_ Q3 Q4 Ff Q5.

[1530] _search ... these piteous woes_] _go ... this piteous woe_ Johnson conj.

[1531] [Exeunt other Watch. Capell.

After this S. Walker conjectures that a line is omitted.

[1532] _We see ... descry._] Omitted by Pope.

[1533] Re-enter ...] Dyce. Enter ... Rowe. Enter Romeos man. Qq Ff.

[1534] Sec. Watch.] Rowe. Watch. Qq. Wat. Ff.

_Here's ... churchyard_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

[1535] First Watch.] Rowe. Chief. watch. Qq. Con. Ff.

[1536] _come_] _comes_ F2 F3 F4.

Re-enter ...] Enter Frier, and another Watchman. Qq Ff.

[1537] _churchyard's_] _churchyards_ Q2. _church-yard_ The rest.

[1538] _too_] _too too_ Q2. _too, too_ Q3 Q4.

Enter ...] Rowe. Enter the Prince. Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff. Enter Prince. Q5.

[1539] SCENE V. Pope.

[1540] _morning_] Q2 Q3. _mornings_ Q4 Ff Q5.

[1541] Enter....] Capell (substantially). Enter Capels. Q2 Q3. Enter Capulet and his Wife. Q4 Ff Q5.

[1542] _they so shriek_] _is so shrike_ Q2. _is so shriek'd_ Edd. conj.

_shriek_] F4. _shrike_ The rest.

[1543] La. Cap.] Rowe. Wife. Qq Ff.

[1544] _The people_] Pope. _O the people_ Qq Ff.

[1545] _toward_] _to ward_ Q3 Q4.

_our_] _out_ F1.

[1546] _our_] Capell (Johnson and Heath conj.). _your_ Qq Ff.

[1547] First Watch.] 1. W. Capell. Watch. Qq. Wat. Ff.

[1548] _Search_] As in Qq. In a separate line in Ff.

[1549] _slaughter'd_] _Slaughter_ Q2.

[1550] Enter Capulet and his wife. Q2 Q3.

[1551] _O heavens!_] As in Qq. In a separate line in Ff.

_heavens_] Q2. _heaven_ The rest.

[1552] _his house ... And it_] _the sheath Lies ... The point_ Pope.

[1553] _it_] Q2. _is_ The rest.

_mis-sheathed_] F4. _misheathed_ F1 F2 Q5 F3. _missheathd_ Q2. _missheath'd_ Q3 Q4. mi-_sheath'd_ Jackson conj.

_it mis-sheathed_] _it is missheath'd_ Mommsen conj.

[1554] Enter ... and others.] Capell. Enter Mountague. Qq Ff.

[1555] _more early down_] (Q1) Steevens. _now early downe_ Q3 Q4 Ff Q5. _now earling downe_ Q2. _now early fallen_ Pope.

[1556] After this line Ritson would insert, from (Q1), _And young Benvolio is deceased too._

[1557] _mine_] Q2. _my_ The rest.

[1558] _Look_] _Look in this monument_ Steevens conj. _Look here_ Keightley. _Look there_ Dyce conj. _Look, look_ Anon. conj.

[showing Romeo. Capell.

[1559] _is in_] _in is_ F1 F2.

[1560] _mouth_] _moneth_ Q4.

_outrage_] _outcry_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[1561] _Doth_] _Doe_ Q5.

[1562] _here_] _heare_ Q3 Q4.

[1563] _that_] Q4 Q5. _thats_ Q2 Q3. _that's_ Ff.

[1564] _Tybalt's_] _Taybalts_ F2.

[1565] _mean_] _meane_ Q2. _meanes_ The rest.

[1566] _writ_] _write_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[1567] _as_] _at_ Keightley.

[1568] _borrow'd_] Capell. _borrowed_ Qq Ff.

[1569] _Return'd_] _Returned_ Q3 Q4.

[1570] _hour_] F3 F4. _hower_ Q2 Q3. _houre_ The rest.

_waking_] _awaking_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[1571] _minute_] _minutes_ Hanmer.

[1572] _awaking_] _awakening_ Q2. _a waking_ F2.

[1573] _entreated her_] _intreat her to_ F4.

[1574] _scare_] Qq F3 F4. _scarre_ F1 F2.

[1575] _All this ... time_] Arranged as by Pope. Three lines, ending _privie: ... fault, ... time,_ in Qq Ff.

[1576] _Her nurse_] _the nurse_ Q5.

_and_] om. Rowe. _but_ Pope.

[1577] _his_] Q2. _the_ The rest. _its_ Pope.

[1578] _a_] _an_ F4.

[1579] _in this_] (Q1) Capell. _to this_ Qq Ff.

[1580] Bal.] Q5. Balth. Q2 Q3 Q4. Boy. Ff. Peter. Rowe.

[1581] _place, to ... monument._] _place. To ... monument_ Q2 Q3 Q4.

[1582] _in_] _to_ Pope.

[1583] _left_] _leaft_ Q3.

[1584] Page.] Ff. Boy. Qq.

[1585] _brace_] _brase_ Q2 Q3 Q4.

[1586] _raise_] _raie_ Q2 Q3.

[1587] _whiles_] Qq Ff. _while_ Rowe.

[1588] _such_] Q2. _that_ The rest.

[1589] _true_] _fair_ Collier MS.

[1590] _Romeo's ... lady's_] _Romeos ... Ladies_ Q2 Q3 Q4. _Romeo ... Lady_ (Q1) Ff. _Romeo's ... Ladies_ Q5. _Romeo's ... lady_ Theobald.

[1591] _glooming_] _gloomie_ (Q1). _gloomy_ F4. _gloaming_ Taylor conj. MS.

[1592] _pardon'd_] Ff. _pardoned_ Qq.

[1593] [Exeunt.] Exeunt omnes. Ff. om. Qq.

NOTES.

NOTE I.

I. 1. There is no division into Acts and Scenes in the Quartos, nor any trace of division in the Folios, except the 'Actus Primus, Scæna Prima' at the beginning of the play.

We wish to remind our readers that the symbol Qq signifies the agreement of the second, third, fourth, and fifth Quartos.

NOTE II.

I. 2. 116. The first Quarto here has 'thrall,' the others 'debt,' which though it makes a rhyme does not improve the sense. The next two lines are not in the first Quarto. As, unlike the immediate context, they also rhyme, while they are not particularly forcible, we incline to think that some other hand than Shakespeare's inserted them.

NOTE III.

II. 1. 13. Pope was the first commentator who called attention to the ballad which is alluded to in this passage, and it is remarkable that with all his partiality for the first Quarto he did not adopt the reading 'trim,' found both there and in the ballad. Percy, in a note to the ballad printed in his _Reliques_, conjectured that Shakespeare had written 'trim,' not 'true,' apparently without knowing that the word was found in the first Quarto. Capell, in his note, says that he had retained 'true' in his text, owing to his not having observed the authority for the other reading.

NOTE IV.

II. 2. As there is no indication given in the Quartos and Folios of Romeo's entrance here, it is not impossible that in the old arrangement of the scene the wall was represented as dividing the stage, so that the audience could see Romeo on one side and Mercutio on the other. If this were the case it would tend to justify Capell's arrangement of _Hen. VIII._ v. 2, though in the present instance he makes no allusion to it. It is clear from the first line of Romeo's speech that he overhears what Mercutio says, and though we have not altered the usual arrangement, we cannot but feel that there is an awkwardness in thus separating the two lines of a rhyming couplet.

NOTE V.

II. 2. 152. Malone erroneously attributes the reading 'suit' to the Quarto of 1597. The words, 'To cease thy suit,' are found in Brooke's _Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Iuliet_, p. 21 of the reprint in Mr Collier's _Shakespeare's Library_.

NOTE VI.

II. 2. 184-II. 3. 5. This passage was printed substantially right in the Quarto of 1597. The Quarto of 1599 inserted after the first line of Romeo's speech the first four of the Friar's, repeating them in their proper place. In Juliet's speech, the same edition by printing one line as two, and mistaking the stage directions gave rise to a further corruption in the Quarto of 1609.

In Q2 (1599) the passage stands:

'Good night, good night.
Parting is such sweete sorrow,
That I shall say good night, till it be morrow.

_Iu._ Sleep dwel vpon thine eyes, peace in thy breast.

_Ro._ Would I were sleepe and peace so sweet to rest
The grey eyde morne smiles on the frowning night,
Checkring the Easterne Clouds with streaks of light,
And darknesse fleckted like a drunkard reeles,
From forth daies pathway, made by _Tytans_ wheeles.
Hence will I to my ghostly Friers close cell,
His helpe to craue, and my deare hap to tell.

_Exit._

_Enter Frier alone with a basket._

_Fri._ The grey-eyed morne smiles on the frowning night,
Checking the Easterne clowdes with streaks of light:
And fleckeld darknesse like a drunkard reeles,
From forth daies path, and _Titans_ burning wheeles:
Now ere &c.'

In Q3(1609) we read:

'Good night, good night.

_Ro._ Parting is such sweete sorrow,
That I shall say goodnight, till it be morrow.

_Iu._ Sleepe dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast.

_Rom._ Would I were sleepe and peace so sweete to rest
The gray-eyde morne, &c.'

For the rest Q3 follows Q2 without any material variation, except that it reads 'fleckeld' for 'fleckted,' in the eighth line.

The fourth Quarto, undated, has ejected the intruding lines and distributed the dialogue right. One error alone remains, viz. that 'Good night, good night ... sorrow' is divided still into two lines. The fifth Quarto follows the fourth.

The first Folio follows the third Quarto as usual without any variation of importance.

The second Folio, followed by the third and fourth, inserts, '_Exit_' after the word 'breast,' adopts the reading of the first down to the end of Romeo's speech, and makes the Friar's begin at line 5, thus:

'_Fri._ Now ere the Sun advance his burning eye, &c.'

Pope restored the true arrangement. In the fourth line of the Friar's speech he introduced 'pathway made by Titan's wheels' from the passage as first given in Q2 Q3 F1.

NOTE VII.

II. 5. 15, 16. The second Quarto reads here:

'_M._ And his to me, but old folks, many fain as they wer dead,
Vnwieldie, slowe, heauie, and pale as lead.'

And this is followed with slight variations of spelling by the third.

The fourth and fifth omit the _M._, as do the Folios, which give the passage thus:

'And his to me, but old folkes,
Many faine as they were dead,
Vnwieldie, slow, heauy, and pale as lead.'

Pope omits the lines 'But old folks ... lead,' thinking probably that they are due to interpolation, a supposition which the unmeaning '_M._' in the earlier Quartos seems to confirm.

Mr Collier's MS. corrector has (Shakespeare, Ed. 2, Note ad loc.):

'As his to me: but old folks seem as dead,
Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and dull as lead.'

This is not mentioned in his _Notes and Emendations_.

For 'many' Johnson substitutes 'marry;'

'But old folks, marry, feign as they were dead, &c.'

NOTE VIII.

III. 3. 38-46. Instead of the lines which he put in the margin, Pope inserted the following, copied with some alterations from the first Quarto:

'But Romeo may not, he is banished!
O father, hadst thou no strong poison mixt,
No sharp ground knife, no present means of death,
But banishment to torture me withal?'

NOTE IX.

III. 3. 40-43. The Quarto of 1599 reads as follows:

'This may flyes do, when I from this must flie,
And sayest thou yet, that exile is not death?
But _Romeo_ may not, he is banished.
Flies may do this, but I from this must flie:
They are freemen, but I am banished.'

The same order is followed in the subsequent Quartos. The reading of the first Quarto will be seen in the reprint which follows the play. The first Folio gives:

'This may Flies doe, when I from this must flie,
And saist thou yet, that exile is not death?
But _Romeo_ may not, hee is banished.'

This reading is followed by the other Folios, Rowe, Theobald, Warburton, and Johnson. Hanmer follows Pope in his text (see Note VIII), omitting altogether the lines which Pope put in the margin.

Capell has:

'Flies may do this, but I from this must fly;
They are free men, but I am banished.'

Steevens (1773) reads:

'Flies may do this, when I from this must fly;
They are free men, but I am banished.
And say'st thou yet, that exile is not death?
But Romeo may not;--he is banished.'

In his note on the passage, in the edition of 1778, he conjectured that the line 'But Romeo ... banished' should be inserted after 'their own kisses sin;' an arrangement which was adopted by Malone and by Steevens himself in his edition of 1793. Capell suggests that the lines he retains 'were second thoughts of the poet, and their original was meant for expunction.' This may possibly be true, but we have adopted the reading given in our text because it retains, without manifest absurdity, lines which are all undoubtedly Shakespeare's. For a similar instance see Note XVIII. on _Love's Labour's Lost_.

In IV. I. III, of the present play we have omitted a line which occurs in all the Quartos, except the first, and all the Folios, because it could not be retained without absolute detriment to the sense.

NOTE X.

III. 5. 82-104. Instead of this passage Pope, printing, as he says, 'more agreeably to the first edition,' gave as follows:

I soon would send to _Mantua_ where he is,
And give him such an unaccustom'd dram
That he should soon keep _Tybalt_ company.

_Jul._ Find you the means, and I'll find such a man,
For while he lives, my heart shall ne'er be light
'Till I behold him--dead--is my poor heart,
Thus for a kinsman vext?

_La. Cap._ Well, let that pass.
I come to bring thee joyful tidings, girl.'

In this arbitrary change, he is followed, as usual, by Hanmer, except that the latter puts a full stop at 'vext.'

NOTE XI.

IV. 3. 58. Mr Dyce conjectured that 'here's drink' was the corruption of a stage direction, '_here drink_.'

NOTE XII.

IV. 5. 36. Although 'see' was doubtless a conjectural insertion of the editor of the second Folio in order to complete the metre, like his addition of 'now' in the next line, yet, as the word occurs in the corresponding passage of the first Quarto, we have decided on the whole to retain it.

NOTE XIII.

IV. 5. 65-83. Instead of this speech Pope has the following:

'_Fri._ Oh peace for shame--
Your daughter lives in peace and happiness,
And it is vain to wish it otherwise.
Heav'n and yourself had part in this fair maid,
Now heav'n hath all--
Come stick your rosemary on this fair corpse,
And as the custom of our country is,
In all her best and sumptuous ornaments
Convey her where her ancestors lie tomb'd.'

The last three lines are verbatim from the Quarto of 1597. Hanmer follows Pope, with a different arrangement in the first lines, which he prints thus:

'Oh peace for shame--your daughter lives in peace
And happiness, and it is vain to wish
It otherwise. Heav'n and yourself had part
In this fair maid, now heaven hath her all--
Come &c.'

NOTE XIV.

V. 3. 13-17. Instead of these five lines Pope inserts the four following, from the first Quarto:

'Fair _Juliet_, that with angels dost remain,
Accept this latest favour at my hand,
That living honour'd thee, and being dead
With fun'ral obsequies adorn thy tomb.'

For lines 12-17 Steevens (1773) substituted the corresponding lines of the first Quarto, except that he follows Pope in reading 'hand' for 'hands.'

NOTE XV.

V. 3. 108. The quarto of 1599 here reads:

'Depart againe, come lye thou in my arme,
Heer's to thy health, where ere thou tumblest in.
O true Appothecarie!
Thy drugs are quicke. Thus with a kisse I die.
Depart againe, here, here, will I remaine,
With wormes &c.'

The third Quarto has the same reading, putting a semi-colon after 'againe' in the fifth line, and is followed by the first Folio, except that 'armes' is substituted for 'arme' in the first line. The later Folios make no material change. The reading in our text is substantially that of the fourth and fifth Quartos. Rowe follows the Folios, and Pope prints:

'Depart again: come lye thou in my arms,
Here's to thy health.--O true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick. Here, here will I remain,
With worms &c.'

NOTE XVI.

Mr Lionel Booth has been kind enough to furnish us with the following variations which he has found in different copies of the first Folio:

Page 57, col. 1, line 35: oft the angry.
oft a the angry.

Page 59, col. 2, line 12 from bottom: this place.
thy place.

Page 62, col. 2, line 5: that Gentlemen.
tha Gentlemen.
qua- tha: Gentlemen (in Capell's copy).

Page 71, col. 1, line 8: Holy Father now.
Holy Father own.

Page 71, col. 2, line 36: Cookes.
Cockes.

AN

EXCELLENT

CONCEITED TRAGEDIE

OF

ROMEO AND IULIET.

The Prologue.

_Two houshold Frends alike in dignitie,_
_(In faire_ Verona, _where we lay our Scene)_
_From ciuill broyles broke into enmitie,_
_Whose ciuill warre makes ciuill hands vncleane._
_From forth the fatall loynes of these two foes,_ 5
_A paire of starre-crost Louers tooke their life:_
_Whose misaduentures, piteous ouerthrowes,_
_(Through the continuing of their Fathers strife,_
_And death-markt passage of their Parents rage)_
_Is now the two howres traffique of our Stage._ 10
_The which if you with patient eares attend,_
_What here we want wee'l studie to amend._

The most excellent Tragedie of

_Romeo and Iuliet._

[Sidenote: [SC. I.]]

_Enter 2. Seruingmen of the_ Capolets.

_Gregorie_, of my word Ile carrie no coales.

_2_ No, for if you doo, you should be a Collier.

_1_ If I be in choler, Ile draw.

_2_ Euer while you liue, drawe your necke out of the the collar. 5

_1_ I strike quickly being moou'd.

_2_ I, but you are not quickly moou'd to strike.

_1_ A Dog of the house of the _Mountagues_ moues me.

_2_ To mooue is to stirre, and to bee valiant is to stand
to it: therefore (of my word) if thou be mooud thou't 10
runne away.

_1_ There's not a man of them I meete, but Ile take
the wall of.

_2_ That shewes thee a weakling, for the weakest goes
to the wall. 15

_1_ Thats true, therefore Ile thrust the men from the
wall, and thrust the maids to to the walls: nay, thou shalt
see I am a tall peece of flesh.

_2_ Tis well thou art not fish, for if thou wert thou
wouldst be but poore Iohn. 20

_1_ Ile play the tyrant, Ile first begin with the maids, &
off with their heads.

_2_ The heads of the maids?

_1_ I the heades of their Maides, or the Maidenheades,
take it in what sence thou wilt. 25

_2_ Nay let them take it in sence that feele it, but heere
comes two of the _Mountagues_.

_Enter two Seruingmen of the_ Mountagues.

_1_ Nay feare not me I warrant thee.

_2_ I feare them no more than thee, but draw.

_1_ Nay let vs haue the law on our side, let them begin 30
first. Ile tell thee what Ile doo, as I goe by ile bite my
thumbe, which is disgrace enough if they suffer it.

_2_ Content, goe thou by and bite thy thumbe, and ile
come after and frowne.

_1 Moun_: Doo you bite your thumbe at vs? 35

_1_ I bite my thumbe.

_2 Moun_: I but i'st at vs?

_1_ I bite my thumbe, is the law on our side?

_2_ No.

_1_ I bite my thumbe. 40

_1 Moun_: I but i'st at vs? _Enter Beneuolio._

_2_ Say I, here comes my Masters kinsman.

_They draw, to them enters_ Tybalt, _they fight, to them the_
_Prince, old_ Mountague, _and his wife, old_ Capulet _and_
_his wife, and other Citizens and part them_.

_Prince_: Rebellious subiects enemies to peace,
On paine of torture, from those bloody handes
Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground. 45
Three Ciuell brawles bred of an airie word,
By the old _Capulet_ and _Mountague_,
Haue thrice disturbd the quiet of our streets.
If euer you disturbe our streets againe,
Your liues shall pay the ransome of your fault: 50
For this time euery man depart in peace.
Come _Capulet_ come you along with me,
And _Mountague_, come you this after noone,
To know our farther pleasure in this case,
To old free Towne our common iudgement place, 55
Once more on paine of death each man depart.

_Exeunt._

_M_: wife. Who set this auncient quarrel first abroach?
Speake Nephew, were you by when it began?

_Benuo_: Here were the seruants of your aduersaries,
And yours close fighting ere I did approch. 60

_Wife_: Ah where is _Romeo_, saw you him to day?
Right glad I am he was not at this fray.

_Ben_: Madame, an houre before the worshipt sunne
Peept through the golden window of the East,
A troubled thought drew me from companie:
Where vnderneath the groue _Sicamoure_,
That Westward rooteth from the Citties side,
So early walking might I see your sonne.
I drew towards him, but he was ware of me,
And drew into the thicket of the wood: 70
I noting his affections by mine owne,
That most are busied when th' are most alone,
Pursued my honor, not pursuing his.

_Moun_: Black and portentious must this honor proue,
Vnlesse good counsaile doo the cause remooue. 75

_Ben_: Why tell me Vncle do you know the cause?

_Enter Romeo._

_Moun_: I neyther know it nor can learne of him.

_Ben_: See where he is, but stand you both aside,
Ile know his grieuance, or be much denied.

_Mount_: I would thou wert so happie by thy stay 80
To heare true shrift. Come Madame lets away.

_Benuo_: Good morrow Cosen.

_Romeo_: Is the day so young?

_Ben_: But new stroke nine.

_Romeo_: Ay me, sad hopes seeme long. 85
Was that my Father that went hence so fast?

_Ben_: It was, what sorrow lengthens _Romeos_ houres?

_Rom_: Not hauing that, which hauing makes them short.

_Ben_: In loue.

_Ro_: Out. 90

_Ben_: Of loue.

_Ro_: Out of her fauor where I am in loue.

_Ben_: Alas that loue so gentle in her view,
Should be so tyrranous and rough in proofe.