Act III, Scene II — Capulet's orchard.[826]…

Act III, Scene II — Capulet's orchard.[826]

Enter JULIET.[827]

Jul. Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, Towards Phoebus' lodging: such a waggoner[828] As Phaethon would whip you to the west,[829] And bring in cloudy night immediately. Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, 5 That runaway's eyes may wink, and Romeo[830] Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen.[831] Lovers can see to do their amorous rites[832] By their own beauties; or, if love be blind,[833] It best agrees with night. Come, civil night, 10 Thou sober-suited matron, all in black,[834] And learn me how to lose a winning match, Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:[835] Hood my unmann'd blood bating in my cheeks[836] With thy black mantle, till strange love grown bold[837] 15 Think true love acted simple modesty.[838] Come, night, come, Romeo, come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.[839] Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night, 20 Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,[840] Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night[841] And pay no worship to the garish sun. 25 O, I have bought the mansion of a love, But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold, Not yet enjoy'd; so tedious is this day As is the night before some festival To an impatient child that hath new robes 30 And may not wear them. O, here comes my nurse, And she brings news, and every tongue that speaks But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence.

Enter Nurse, with cords.[842]

Now, nurse, what news? What hast thou there? the cords[843] That Romeo bid thee fetch?[844]

Nurse. Ay, ay, the cords.[844][845] 35

[Throws them down.

Jul. Ay me! what news? why dost thou wring thy hands?[846]

Nurse. Ah, well-a-day! he's dead, he's dead, he's dead.[847] We are undone, lady, we are undone. Alack the day! he's gone, he's kill'd, he's dead.[848]

Jul. Can heaven be so envious?

Nurse. Romeo can, 40 Though heaven cannot. O Romeo, Romeo! Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!

Jul. What devil art thou that dost torment me thus?[849] This torture should be roar'd in dismal hell. Hath Romeo slain himself? say thou but 'I,'[850] 45 And that bare vowel 'I' shall poison more[850] Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice:[851] I am not I, if there be such an I,[852][853][854][855] Or those eyes shut, that make thee answer 'I.'[852][853][855][856] If he be slain, say 'I;' or if not, no:[852][855] 50 Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe.[852][857]

Nurse. I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes-- God save the mark!--here on his manly breast: A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse; Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood,[858] 55 All in gore blood: I swounded at the sight.[859]

Jul. O, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once![860] To prison, eyes, ne'er look on liberty! Vile earth, to earth resign, end motion here,[861] And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier![862] 60

Nurse. O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had! O courteous Tybalt! honest gentleman![863] That ever I should live to see thee dead!

Jul. What storm is this that blows so contrary?[864] Is Romeo slaughter'd, and is Tybalt dead? 65 My dear-loved cousin, and my dearer lord?[865] Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom![866] For who is living, if those two are gone?

Nurse. Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished:[867] Romeo that kill'd him, he is banished. 70

Jul. O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?[868]

Nurse. It did, it did; alas the day, it did![869]

Jul. O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face![870] Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?[870] Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! 75 Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb![871][872] Despised substance of divinest show![872][873][874] Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,[872][873] A damned saint, an honourable villain![872][873][875] O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell, 80 When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend[876] In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh? Was ever book containing such vile matter So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace!

Nurse. There's no trust,[877] 85 No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,[877] All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.[877][878] Ah, where's my man? give me some aqua vitæ: These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old. Shame come to Romeo!

Jul. Blister'd be thy tongue[879] 90 For such a wish! he was not born to shame: Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit; For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd Sole monarch of the universal earth. O, what a beast was I to chide at him![880] 95

Nurse. Will you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin?[881]

Jul. Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name, When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? 100 That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband: Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring; Your tributary drops belong to woe, Which you mistaking offer up to joy.[882] My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain; 105 And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband:[883] All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then? Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death,[884] That murder'd me: I would forget it fain;[885] But, O, it presses to my memory, 110 Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds: 'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo banished;' That 'banished,' that one word 'banished,' Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death Was woe enough, if it had ended there: 115 Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship And needly will be rank'd with other griefs,[886] Why follow'd not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,'[887] Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both, Which modern lamentation might have moved?[888] 120 But with a rear-ward following Tybalt's death,[889] 'Romeo is banished:' to speak that word,[890] Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished.' There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, 125 In that word's death; no words can that woe sound. Where is my father, and my mother, nurse?

Nurse. Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse:[891] Will you go to them? I will bring you thither.

Jul. Wash they his wounds with tears: mine shall be spent,[892] 130 When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment. Take up those cords: poor ropes, you are beguiled,[893][894] Both you and I; for Romeo is exiled:[893][895] He made you for a highway to my bed;[893][896] But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed.[893][897] 135 Come, cords; come, nurse; I'll to my wedding-bed;[893][898] And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead![893]

Nurse. Hie to your chamber: I'll find Romeo To comfort you: I wot well where he is. Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night:[899] 140 I'll to him; he is hid at Laurence' cell.

Jul. O, find him! give this ring to my true knight, And bid him come to take his last farewell.[900] [Exeunt.

Act III, Scene III — Friar Laurence's cell.[901]

Enter FRIAR LAURENCE.[902]

Fri. L. Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man:[903] Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts,[904] And thou art wedded to calamity.

Enter ROMEO.[905]

Rom. Father, what news? what is the prince's doom?[906] What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,[907] 5 That I yet know not?

Fri. L. Too familiar Is my dear son with such sour company:[908] I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.

Rom. What less than dooms-day is the prince's doom?[909]

Fri. L. A gentler judgement vanish'd from his lips,[910] 10 Not body's death, but body's banishment.

Rom. Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;' For exile hath more terror in his look, Much more than death: do not say 'banishment.'[911]

Fri. L. Here from Verona art thou banished:[912] 15 Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.

Rom. There is no world without Verona walls,[913] But purgatory, torture, hell itself.[914] Hence banished is banish'd from the world,[915] And world's exile is death: then 'banished'[916][917][918] 20 Is death mis-term'd: calling death 'banished,'[917][919] Thou cut'st my head off with a golden axe And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.[920]

Fri. L. O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness! Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind prince, 25 Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law,[921] And turn'd that black word death to banishment: This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.[922]

Rom. 'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here, Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog 30 And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her,[923] But Romeo may not: more validity, More honourable state, more courtship lives In carrion-flies than Romeo: they may seize 35 On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand, And steal immortal blessing from her lips;[924] Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,[925][926] Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin;[926][927] But Romeo may not; he is banished:[926][928] 40 This may flies do, but I from this must fly:[926][928] They are free men, but I am banished:[926][928] And say'st thou yet, that exile is not death?[926][928] Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife,[926][929] No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,[926] 45 But 'banished' to kill me?--'Banished'?[926] O friar, the damned use that word in hell; Howling attends it: how hast thou the heart,[930] Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd,[931] 50 To mangle me with that word 'banished'?[932]

Fri. L. Thou fond mad man, hear me but speak a word.[933]

Rom. O, thou wilt speak again of banishment.

Fri. L. I'll give thee armour to keep off that word;[934] Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, 55 To comfort thee, though thou art banished.

Rom. Yet 'banished'? Hang up philosophy! Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom, It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more.[935] 60

Fr. L. O, then I see that madmen have no ears.[936]

Rom. How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?[937]

Fr. L. Let me dispute with thee of thy estate.[938]

Rom. Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel:[939] Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,[940] 65 An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,[941] Doting like me, and like me banished, Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,[942] And fall upon the ground, as I do now, Taking the measure of an unmade grave.[943] [Knocking within. 70

Fri. L. Arise; one knocks; good Romeo, hide thyself.[944]

Rom. Not I; unless the breath of heart-sick groans[945][946] Mist-like infold me from the search of eyes.[945][947] [Knocking.

Fri. L. Hark, how they knock! Who's there? Romeo, arise;[945][948] Thou wilt be taken.--Stay awhile!--Stand up;[949] [Knocking. 75 Run to my study.--By and by! God's will, What simpleness is this!--I come, I come![950] [Knocking. Who knocks so hard? whence come you? what's your will?[951]

Nurse. [Within] Let me come in, and you shall know my errand;[952] I come from Lady Juliet.

Fri. L. Welcome, then.[953] 80

Enter Nurse.

Nurse. O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar, Where is my lady's lord, where's Romeo?[954]

Fri. L. There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.[955]

Nurse. O, he is even in my mistress' case,[956] Just in her case!

Fr. L. O woeful sympathy![957] 85 Piteous predicament![957]

Nurse. Even so lies she,[958] Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering. Stand up, stand up; stand, an you be a man:[959][960] For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand;[959] Why should you fall into so deep an O?[961] 90

Rom. Nurse![961]

Nurse. Ah sir! ah sir! Well, death's the end of all.[962]

Rom. Spakest thou of Juliet? how is it with her?[963] Doth she not think me an old murderer,[964] Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy[965] 95 With blood removed but little from her own? Where is she? and how doth she? and what says[966] My conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love?[967]

Nurse. O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps; And now falls on her bed; and then starts up, 100 And Tybalt calls; and then on Romeo cries,[968] And then down falls again.

Rom. As if that name,[969] Shot from the deadly level of a gun,[969][970] Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me,[971] 105 In what vile part of this anatomy[972] Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack The hateful mansion.[973] [Drawing his sword.

Fri. L. Hold thy desperate hand: Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art: Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote[974] 110 The unreasonable fury of a beast: Unseemly woman in a seeming man![975] Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both![975][976] Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order, I thought thy disposition better temper'd. 115 Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself? And slay thy lady that in thy life lives,[977] By doing damned hate upon thyself?[978] Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven and earth?[978][979] Since birth and heaven and earth, all three do meet[978][980] 120 In thee at once, which thou at once wouldst lose.[978][120][981] Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit;[978] Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all,[978][982] And usest none in that true use indeed[978] Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit:[978] 125 Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,[978] Digressing from the valour of a man;[978][983] Thy dear love sworn, but hollow perjury,[978] Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish;[978] Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,[978] 130 Mis-shapen in the conduct of them both,[978] Like powder in a skilless soldier's flask,[978][984] Is set a-fire by thine own ignorance,[978][985] And thou dismember'd with thine own defence.[978] What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive, 135 For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead; There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee, But thou slew'st Tybalt; there art thou happy too:[986] The law, that threaten'd death, becomes thy friend,[987] And turns it to exile; there art thou happy:[988] 140 A pack of blessings lights upon thy back;[989] Happiness courts thee in her best array; But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,[990] Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love:[991] Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. 145 Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed, Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her: But look thou stay not till the watch be set, For then thou canst not pass to Mantua; Where thou shalt live till we can find a time 150 To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, Beg pardon of the prince and call thee back[992] With twenty hundred thousand times more joy Than thou went'st forth in lamentation. Go before, nurse: commend me to thy lady, 155 And bid her hasten all the house to bed, Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto: Romeo is coming.

Nurse. O Lord, I could have stay'd here all the night[993] To hear good counsel: O, what learning is![994] 160 My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come.

Rom. Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.

Nurse. Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir:[995] Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late.[996] [Exit.

Rom. How well my comfort is revived by this! 165

Fri. Go hence; good night; and here stands all your state:[997][998] Either be gone before the watch be set,[997] Or by the break of day disguised from hence:[997][999] Sojourn in Mantua; I'll find out your man, And he shall signify from time to time 170 Every good hap to you that chances here: Give me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good night.

Rom. But that a joy past joy calls out on me, It were a grief, so brief to part with thee: Farewell.[1000] [Exeunt. 175

Act III, Scene IV — A room in Capulet's house.[1001]

Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and PARIS.[1002]

Cap. Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily That we have had no time to move our daughter.[1003] Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly, And so did I. Well, we were born to die. 'Tis very late; she'll not come down to-night: 5 I promise you, but for your company,[1004] I would have been a-bed an hour ago.[1004][1005]

Par. These times of woe afford no time to woo.[1006] Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter.

La. Cap. I will, and know her mind early to-morrow;[1007] 10 To-night she's mew'd up to her heaviness.[1007][1008]

Cap. Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender[1009] Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled[1010] In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not.[1011] Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed; 15 Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love;[1012] And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next--[1013][1014] But, soft! what day is this?

Par. Monday, my lord.

Cap. Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon;[1014] O' Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her,[1015][1016] 20 She shall be married to this noble earl.[1015] Will you be ready? do you like this haste?[1015] We'll keep no great ado; a friend or two;[1017] For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late, It may be thought we held him carelessly, 25 Being our kinsman, if we revel much: Therefore we'll have some half-a-dozen friends, And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?[1018]

Par. My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow.[1019]

Cap. Well, get you gone: o' Thursday be it then.[1020] 30 Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,[1021] Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day. Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho! Afore me, it is so very very late,[1022] That we may call it early by and by:[1022][1023] 35 Good night.[1024] [Exeunt.

Act III, Scene V — CAPULET'S ORCHARD.[1025]

Enter ROMEO and JULIET, above, at the window.[1026]

Jul. Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:[1027] It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate-tree:[1028] Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. 5

Rom. It was the lark, the herald of the morn,[1029] No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east: Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day[1030] Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops:[1031] 10 I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

Jul. Yond light is not day-light, I know it, I:[1032] It is some meteor that the sun exhales,[1033] To be to thee this night a torch-bearer, And light thee on thy way to Mantua: 15 Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone.[1034]

Rom. Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death;[1035] I am content, so thou wilt have it so.[1035] I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,[1035][1036] 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;[1035][1037] 20 Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat[1035][1038] The vaulty heaven so high above our heads:[1035][1039] I have more care to stay than will to go:[1035][1040] Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so. How is't, my soul? let's talk: it is not day.[1041] 25

Jul. It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away! It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. Some say the lark makes sweet division; This doth not so, for she divideth us: 30 Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes;[1042] O, now I would they had changed voices too![1043] Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,[1044] Hunting thee hence with hunts-up to the day.[1044][1045] O, now be gone; more light and light it grows.[1046] 35

Rom. More light and light: more dark and dark our woes![1047]

Enter NURSE, to the chamber.[1048]

Nurse. Madam!

Jul. Nurse?[1049]

Nurse. Your lady mother is coming to your chamber: The day is broke; be wary, look about.[1050] [Exit. 40

Jul. Then, window, let day in, and let life out.[1051]

Rom. Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend.[1052]

[Descends.[1053]

Jul. Art thou gone so? my lord, my love, my friend![1054] I must hear from thee every day in the hour,[1055] For in a minute there are many days: 45 O, by this count I shall be much in years Ere I again behold my Romeo!

Rom. Farewell![1056] I will omit no opportunity[1056] That may convey my greetings, love, to thee. 50

Jul. O, think'st thou we shall ever meet again?[1057]

Rom. I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our time to come.[1058]

Jul. O God! I have an ill-divining soul.[1059] Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,[1060] 55 As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:[1061] Either my eyesight fails or thou look'st pale.[1062]

Rom. And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:[1063] Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu![1064] [Exit.

Jul. O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle:[1065] 60 If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune;[1066] For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long, But send him back.[1067]

La. Cap. [Within] Ho, daughter! are you up?

Jul. Who is't that calls? it is my lady mother![1068] 65 Is she not down so late, or up so early?[1069] What unaccustom'd cause procures her hither?[1070]

Enter LADY CAPULET.[1071]

La. Cap. Why, how now, Juliet![1072]

Jul. Madam, I am not well.

La. Cap. Evermore weeping for your cousin's death? What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? 70 An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live;[1073][1074] Therefore have done: some grief shows much of love.[1073] But much of grief shows still some want of wit.[1073]

Jul. Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.

La. Cap. So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend[1075][1076] 75 Which you weep for.[1076]

Jul. Feeling so the loss,[1076] I cannot choose but ever weep the friend.[1076][1077]

La. Cap. Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him.[1078]

Jul. What villain, madam?

La. Cap. That same villain, Romeo.[1079] 80

Jul. [Aside] Villain and he be many miles asunder.[1080] God pardon him! I do, with all my heart;[1081][1082] And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.[1081]

La. Cap. That is because the traitor murderer lives.[1081][1083]

Jul. Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands:[1081] 85 Would none but I might venge my cousin's death![1081]

La. Cap. We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not:[1081] Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,[1081] Where that same banish'd runagate doth live,[1081] Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram[1081][1084] 90 That he shall soon keep Tybalt company:[1081] And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied.[1081]

Jul. Indeed, I never shall be satisfied[1081] With Romeo, till I behold him--dead--[1081][1085] Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vex'd.[1081][1086] 95 Madam, if you could find out but a man[1081] To bear a poison, I would temper it,[1081][1087] That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,[1081] Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors[1081] To hear him named, and cannot come to him,[1081] 100 To wreak the love I bore my cousin[1081][1088] Upon his body that hath slaughter'd him![1081][1089]

La. Cap. Find thou the means, and I'll find such a man.[1081][1090] But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings, girl.[1081][1091]

Jul. And joy comes well in such a needy time:[1092] 105 What are they, I beseech your ladyship?[1093]

La. Cap. Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child; One who, to put thee from thy heaviness, Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy, That thou expect'st not, nor I look'd not for.[1094] 110

Jul. Madam, in happy time, what day is that?[1095]

La. Cap. Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn, The gallant, young, and noble gentleman, The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church,[1096] Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.[1097] 115

Jul. Now, by Saint Peter's Church, and Peter too,[1098] He shall not make me there a joyful bride. I wonder at this haste; that I must wed Ere he that should be husband comes to woo.[1099] I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam, 120 I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear,[1100] It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, Rather than Paris. These are news indeed![1101]

La. Cap. Here comes your father; tell him so yourself,[1102] And see how he will take it at your hands.[1103] 125

Enter CAPULET and Nurse.[1104]

Cap. When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;[1105][1106] But for the sunset of my brother's son[1105] It rains downright.[1105][1107] How now! a conduit, girl? what, still in tears?[1107] Evermore showering? In one little body[1108] 130 Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind:[1109] For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,[1110] Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs; Who raging with thy tears, and they with them,[1111] 135 Without a sudden calm will overset Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife![1112] Have you deliver'd to her our decree?[1113]

La. Cap. Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks.[1114] I would the fool were married to her grave! 140

Cap. Soft! take me with you, take me with you, wife. How! will she none? doth she not give us thanks?[1115] Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest, Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?[1116] 145

Jul. Not proud, you have, but thankful that you have:[1117] Proud can I never be of what I hate;[1118] But thankful even for hate that is meant love.[1119]

Cap. How, how! how, how! chop-logic! What is this?[1120] 'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;'[1121] 150 And yet 'not proud:' mistress minion, you,[1121][1122] Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds, But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next,[1123] To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church, Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. 155 Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage![1124][1125] You tallow-face![1124][1126]

La. Cap. Fie, fie! what, are you mad?

Jul. Good father, I beseech you on my knees, Hear me with patience but to speak a word.

Cap. Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch![1127] 160 I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,[1128] Or never after look me in the face: Speak not, reply not, do not answer me; My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest[1129] That God had lent us but this only child,[1130] 165 But now I see this one is one too much And that we have a curse in having her:[1131] Out on her, hilding!

Nurse. God in heaven bless her! You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.[1132]

Cap. And why, my lady wisdom? hold your tongue,[1127] 170 Good prudence; smatter with your gossips, go.[1133]

Nurse. I speak no treason.[1134]

Cap. O, God ye god-den.[1127]

Nurse. May not one speak?

Cap. Peace, you mumbling fool![1135] Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl;[1136] For here we need it not.

La. Cap. You are too hot. 175

Cap. God's bread! it makes me mad:[1127][1137][1138] Day, night, hour, tide, time, work, play,[1137][1138][1139] Alone, in company, still my care hath been[1137] To have her match'd: and having now provided A gentleman of noble parentage,[1140] 180 Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,[1141] Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts, Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man;[1142] And then to have a wretched puling fool, A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,[1143] 185 To answer 'I'll not wed; I cannot love, I am too young; I pray you, pardon me.' But, an you will not wed, I'll pardon you:[1144] Graze where you will, you shall not house with me: Look to't, think on't, I do not use to jest. 190 Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise: An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend;[1145] An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,[1145][1146] For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee, Nor what is mine shall never do thee good:[1147] 195 Trust to't, bethink you; I'll not be forsworn. [Exit.

Jul. Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief? O, sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week; 200 Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.[1148]

La. Cap. Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word: Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee. [Exit.

Jul. O God!--O nurse, how shall this be prevented?[1149] 205 My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven;[1150] How shall that faith return again to earth,[1150] Unless that husband send it me from heaven[1150] By leaving earth? comfort me, counsel me.[1150] Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems[1151] 210 Upon so soft a subject as myself! What say'st thou? hast thou not a word of joy?[1152] Some comfort, nurse.[1152]

Nurse. Faith, here it is.[1153] Romeo is banish'd, and all the world to nothing,[1153][1154] That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you; 215 Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.[1155] Then, since the case so stands as now it doth, I think it best you married with the county.[1156] O, he's a lovely gentleman![1157] Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam, 220 Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye[1158] As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,[1159] I think you are happy in this second match, For it excels your first: or if it did not, Your first is dead, or 'twere as good he were 225 As living here and you no use of him.[1160]

Jul. Speakest thou from thy heart?[1161]

Nurse. And from my soul too; else beshrew them both.[1162]

Jul. Amen!

Nurse. What?[1163] 230

Jul. Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much. Go in, and tell my lady I am gone, Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell, To make confession and to be absolved.[1164]

Nurse. Marry, I will, and this is wisely done.[1165] [Exit. 235

Jul. Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend![1166] Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,[1167] Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue Which she hath praised him with above compare So many thousand times? Go, counsellor; 240 Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.[1168] I'll to the friar, to know his remedy: If all else fail, myself have power to die.[1169] [Exit.

FOOTNOTES:

[730] ACT III. SCENE I.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. ACT III. SCENE IV. Capell.

A public place.] Capell. The street. Rowe.

[731] Enter....] Capell. Enter Mercutio, Benvolio, and men. Qq Ff.

[732] Capulets] Q4 Q5 Ff. Capels are (Q1). Capels Q2 Q3.

[733] And, if] An if S. Walker conj.

[734] And ... stirring] As in Rowe. Prose in Qq Ff.

[735] those] (Q1) F4. these Qq F1 F2 F3.

[736] of the] of a Rowe.

it] (Q1) Pope. him Qq Ff.

[737] to] Pope. too Qq Ff.

[738] an] Pope. and Qq Ff.

[739] from] for Q5.

[740] An] Capell. And Qq Ff. If Pope.

[741] Enter....] Capell. Enter Tybalt, Petruchio, and others. Qq Ff. Transferred by Collier to follow line 33, by Dyce to follow line 34.

[742] come the Capulets] F2 Q5 F3 F4. comes a Capolet (Q1). comes the Capulets Q2 Q3 Q4 F1.

[743] us?] us, Q2.

[744] an] Capell. and Qq Ff. if Pope.

[745] will] shall Q5.

[746] consort'st] Ff. consortest Qq. consorts (Q1).

Romeo,--] Romeo-- Rowe. Romeo. Qq F1 F3 F4. Romeo, F2.

[747] an] Capell. &. Q3 F1. and The rest. if Pope.

[748] 'Zounds,] Zounds Qq. Come Ff.

[Laying his Hand on his Sword. Rowe.

[749] Or] Qq Ff. And Capell.

[750] before] first Pope.

[751] love] Qq Ff. hate (Q1) Pope.

[752] that] om. Capell.

[753] excuse] exceed Collier MS.

[754] villain am I none] villaine I am none Q5. Omitted in F2 F3 F4.

[755] know'st] knowest Q2 Q3.

[756] injuries] iniures F2.

[757] injured] iniuried Q2.

[758] love] (Q1) Qq. lov'd Ff.

devise] devise, Q5. devise: Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2 F3. devise; F4.

[759] mine] Q2. my The rest.

[760] calm, dishonourable,] calme dishonourable, Q4 Q5.

[761] Alla stoccata] Knight. Alla stucatho Qq F1. Allastucatho F2 F3 F4. Ah! la Stoccata Theobald. Ha! la stoccata Hanmer. A la stoccata Capell.

carries it away.] carry it away! Lettsom conj.

it] is F2.

[Draws.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[762] you rat-catcher,] you, rat-catcher Rowe.

will] come, will Hanmer.

[763] wouldst] Q2 Q5 F4. woulds The rest.

[764] me hereafter,] me, hereafter Rowe.

dry-beat] Hyphened first in Rowe.

[765] pilcher] pilche Warburton. pitcher Singer conj. pilch, sir, Staunton conj.

[766] [Drawing.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[767] [They fight.] Capell. Mer. and Tyb. fight. Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[768] [draws and runs between. Capell.

[769] Draw ... good Mercutio!] Arranged as in Qq Ff. Capell ends the lines Benvolio; ... shame, ... Mercutio ... bandying ... good Mercutio.

[770] [striving to part them. Capell.

[771] Forbid this] Q2. Forbid Q3 Q4 Q5. Forbidden Ff.

[772] in Verona streets: Hold, Tybalt!] Here in Verona:--Tybalt;--Seymour conj.

[773] Verona] Verona's Q5.

[774] [Tybalt ...] Edd. (Globe ed.). Tibalt vnder Romeos arme thrusts Mercutio, in and flyes. (Q1). Away Tybalt. Qq. Exit Tybalt. Ff.

[775] o' both your] Dyce. a both Qq. a both the F1. of both the F2 F3 F4. on your(Q1). o' both the Capell.

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

[777] o' both] Capell. a both Qq F1. of both F2 F3 F4. on both Johnson.

[778] 'Zounds] Q5. sounds Q2 Q3 Q4. What Ff.

[779] devil] Rowe. deule Q2. deu'le Q3 Q4 F1 F2. dev'll Q5. dev'l F3. div'l F4.

[780] o' both] F4. a both The rest. on both Johnson.

[781] I have it ... houses] Arranged as by Dyce. One line in Qq Ff.

[782] have it] ha't Capell.

[783] soundly too: your houses!] soundly too--your houses. Rowe. soundly, to your houses. Q2. soundly to your houses. Q3 F1. soundly to your houses-- Q4 Q5. soundly too your houses. F2. soundly too, your houses. F3 F4. _soundly too. Plague o' your houses!_ Theobald.

[784] [Exeunt ...] Ex. Mer. Ben. Rowe. Exit. Qq Ff. Exeunt. (Q1).

[785] SCENE II. Pope.

[786] got this] Q2. tane this (Q1). gott his Q3. got his Q4 Ff Q5.

[787] reputation] reputation's S. Walker conj.

[788] kinsman] (Q1) Capell. cozen Q2 F3 F4. cozin Q3 Q4 F1 F2. cousin Q5.

[789] Re-enter ...] Re-enter ... hastily. Capell. Enter ... Qq Ff.

[790] Mercutio's] F2 Q5 F3 F4. Mercutio is Q2 Q3 Q4. Mercutio's is F1.

[791] more] (Q1) Qq F1. mo Q2 Q3 F1 F2 F3. moe Q4.

doth] (Q1) Qq F1. doe F2. do F3. does F4.

[792] begins the woe] Q5. begins, the wo Q2 Q3 F1. begins, the woe Q4 F2 F3. begins the woe, F4.

[793] Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter ... (Q1) Ff. Omitted in Qq. Transferred by Dyce to follow line 120.

[794] Alive, in triumph!] Pope, from (Q1). He gan in triumph Q2. He gon in triumph Q3 Q4. He gon in triumph, F1 F2. He gone in triumph, Q5 F3 F4. Again? in triumph? Capell.

[795] fire-eyed] Pope from (Q1). fier end Q2. fier and Q3. fire and Q4 F1 F2 Q5. fire, and F3 F4.

[796] Either] Or (Q1) Pope.

[797] Enter Citizens, &c.] Enter Citizens, Officers, &c. Capell. Enter Citizens. Qq Ff.

[798] SCENE III. Pope.

[799] First Cit.] 1 Cit. Malone. Citti. or Citi. or Cit. Qq Ff. 1. O. Capell.

[800] Up] You Collier MS.

[801] name] names F1.

Enter ...] Capell, substantially. Enter Prince, olde Mountague, Capulet, their wives and all. Qq Ff.

[802] vile] vild F2 F3.

[803] all] (Q1) Ff Q5. all: Q2 Q3 Q4.

[804] kinsman] kisman Q2.

[805] La. Cap.] Rowe. Capu. Wi. or Cap. Wi. Qq Ff (and elsewhere).

[806] O prince!... husband! O,] O Prince, O Cozen, husband, O Qq Ff. Unhappy sight! alas Pope, from (Q1). Prince, O--cousin--husband--O-- Johnson. O prince!--O husband!--O, Capell, corrected to O cousin!--husband!--O, in Notes and MS. Unhappy sight! ah me, Malone, from (Q1).

[807] O cousin, cousin!] Omitted by (Q1) Pope.

[808] Benvolio] om. Collier MS.

bloody] Qq. om. Ff.

[809] bid] (Q1) Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff. bad Q5. bade Malone.

[810] bow'd] Ff. bowed Qq.

[811] take] make Capell conj.

[812] Tybalt] Tybalts F1.

[813] it] it home Collier (Collier MS.).

[814] agile] agill (Q1) Q4 Q5. aged Q2 Q3 F1. able F2 F3 F4.

[815] entertain'd] (Q1) Q5. entertaind Q2. entertayn'd Q4. entertained Q3 Ff.

[816] And] An F3 F4.

to't] F3 F4. toote Q2 Q3. too't Q4 F1 F2 Q5.

[817] and] to Rowe.

[818] Montague] Mountagues Q5.

[819] owe?] Q3. owe. The rest.

[820] Mon.] Moun. Q4. Mou. Q5. Capu. Q2. Cap. Q3 Ff. La. Cap. Rowe. La. Mont. Theobald.

[821] I have ... proceeding] I had no interest in your heats preceding Johnson conj.

hate's] Knight. hates' Capell. hates (Q1). hearts Qq Ff. heats' Hanmer. hearts' Johnson.

[822] I will] It will Q2 Q3 F1.

[823] out] Qq. our Ff. for (Q1).

[824] he's] Theobald. he is Qq Ff.

his] the Q5.

[825] but] not F1.

[Exeunt.] Ff. Exeunt omnes. (Q1). Exit. Qq.

[826] SCENE II.] Rowe. SCENE IV. Pope. SCENE V. Capell.

Capulet's orchard.] Capulet's Garden. Capell. An Apartment in Capulet's House. Rowe.

[827] Enter Juliet.] Enter Juliet alone. Qq Ff.

[828] Towards] Qq F1. Toward F2 F3 F4. To (Q1) Pope.

lodging] mansion (Q1) Pope.

[829] Phaethon] Phaetan Q2. Phaeton The rest.

[830] runaway's] runnawayes Q2 Q3. run-awayes Q4 F1 Q5. run-awaies F2 F3. run-aways F4. th' Run-away's Theobald (Warburton). rumour's Hudson (Heath conj.). run-away so quoted by Blackstone. Renomy's Mason conj. unawares Knight, ed. 1, and Collier, ed. 1 (Jackson conj.). Luna's Mitford conj. runagates' Muirson conj. rumourers' Singer (ed. 2). rumourous Singer conj. (withdrawn). Cynthia's S. Walker conj. enemies' Collier, ed. 2 (Collier MS.). rude day's Dyce. soon day's or roving Dyce conj. run-aways' Staunton. sunny day's Clarke conj. (sun away) or unwary or runagate or run-astray Taylor MS. conj. noonday's Anon. ap. Grant White conj. yonder Leo conj. run-abouts' Keightley. Titan's Bullock conj. sun-awake's Brady conj. wary ones' Anon. conj. ribalds' Anon. conj. Uranus' Anon. conj. roaming Anon. conj.

wink,] weep, So quoted by Knight.

[831] Leap] Leapt F2 F3.

unseen.] Rowe. unseene: Q5. unseene, or unseen, The rest.

[832] rites] F4. rights Qq F1 F2 F3.

[833] By] Q4 F2 Q5 F3 F4. And by Q1 Q3 F1.

if love be] of love to Q4. of love too Q5.

[834] sober-suited] Hyphen inserted in F4.

[835] maidenhoods] Q2 Q3 F1. maidenheads The rest.

[836] bating] Steevens. bayting Q2 Q3 F1 F2 F3. baiting Q4 Q5 F4.

[837] grown] Rowe. grow Qq Ff.

[838] Think] Thinks Rowe.

[839] new snow on] F2 F3 F4. new snow upon Q2 Q3 F1. snow upon Q4 Q5.

[840] he] Q4 Q5. I Q2 Q3 Ff.

[841] will be] shall be Q5.

[842] Enter....] Qq Ff, after line 31. Enter Nurse at a distance. Capell, after line 31. Transferred by Dyce.

[843] Romeo's name] Q5 F4. Romeos, name F1 F2 F3. Romeos name Q2 Q3 Q4.

[844] the cords ... fetch] As in Hanmer. One line in Qq Ff.

[845] [Throws....] Throwing.... Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[846] Ay] Ah Hanmer.

Ay ... hands?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[847] Ah] Pope. A Qq Ff.

well-a-day] welady Q3 Q4 Ff Q5. weraday Q2.

he's dead] Thrice in Qq. Twice in Ff.

[848] he's gone] hees is gone Q3.

[849] What ... thus?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[850] 'I' ... 'I'] ay ... ay Rowe.

[851] death-darting] death arting Q2.

[852] I ... woe.] Omitted by Pope.

[853] Johnson would transpose these lines, reading shot in the second.

[854] an I,] Q5. an I. The rest.

[855] an I ... 'I' ... 'I'] an Ay ... Ay ... Ay Rowe.

[856] shut] Capell. shot Qq Ff.]

make thee] Steevens, 1778 (Johnson conj.). makes thee Qq F1. makes the F2 F3 F4.

[857] Brief sounds] F4. Briefe sounds Q5. Briefe, sounds, Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2. Brief, sounds F3.

of] Ff Q5. om. Q2 Q3 Q4. or Collier (Collier MS.).

[858] bedaub'd] bedawde Q4. bedeaw'd Q5.

[859] swounded] (Q1). swouned Q5. swooned F4. sounded The rest.

[860] O ... once!] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

bankrupt] Q5 F4. banckrout or bankrout The rest.

[861] to] too Q2.

[862] one] on Q2 Q3 F1.

bier] Rowe. beare Q2 Q3. beere Q4 F1 F2 Q5. beer F3 F4.

[863] gentleman] gentlemen F2.

[864] blows] bowes F2 F3.

[starting up. Capell.

[865] dear-loved] (Q1) Pope. dearest Qq Ff.

dearer] dearest (Q1).

[866] Then] The F4.

dreadful trumpet] let the trumpet (Q1) Pope.

[867] gone] dead (Q1) Pope.

[868] O God!] As in Qq. As a separate line in Ff.

did] Nur. Did F2 F3.

[869] Nurse.] (Q1) Q5 F4. Omitted in the rest.

[870] Jul. O serpent ... Did] F2. Q3 F3 F4. Nur. O serpent ... Iv. Did Q2 Q3 Q4 F1.

[871] Dove-feather'd raven] Theobald. Ravenous dou featherd Rauen Q2 Q3 F1. Ravenous dove, feathred Raven Q4 Q5 F2 F3 F4.

wolvish-ravening lamb] As in Qq. A separate line in Ff.

[872] Dove-feather'd ... villain!] Put in the margin by Pope.

[873] Despised ... villain!] Omitted by Hanmer.

[874] Despised] Detested Long MS.

[875] damned] Q4 F2 Q5 F3 F4. dimme Q2 Q3. dimne F1.

villain] vallaine F2.

[876] bower] power Q4. poure Q5.

[877] There's ... dissemblers] As in Capell (following Pope). Two lines, the first ending men, in Qq Ff.

[878] All ... dissemblers] All, all forsworn; ... and all dissemblers Pope. All are forsworn, all false, all are dissemblers Seymour conj. All naught, all forsworn, all dissemblers Anon. conj.

[879] Blister'd] Blistered Q3 Q4 Q5.

[880] at him] Qq. him F1. him so F2 F3 F4.

[881] Will ... cousin?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[882] you] your F2 F3 F4.

[883] Tybalt's] Tibalt or Tybalt Ff.

slain] Qq F1. kil'd F2. kill'd F3 F4.

[884] word there was] Q2 F2 F3 F4. words there was Q3 Q4 F1. words there were Q5.

[885] murder'd] murdered Q4 F1 F3 F4.

[886] rank'd] wrankt Q3 Q4.

[887] follow'd] Q5. followed The rest.

[888] Which ... moved?] Omitted by Pope.

modern] moderate Long MS.

[889] with] which F1.

rear-ward] rear-word Collier conj.

[890] banished: to] Q2 Q5. banished to Q3 Q4 F1 F2 F3. banished, to F4.

[891] corse] Q4. course Q2 Q3. coarse (Q1) Ff Q5.

[892] tears:] teares: or tears: Q3 Q4 Ff. teares? Q2. teares, Q5.

[893] Take ... maidenhead!] Omitted by Pope.

[894] ropes] rops F2.

[895] I;] I, Q5 F3 F4. I The rest.

[896] a] an F4.

[897] maiden-widowed] The hyphen inserted by Rowe.

[898] cords] cordes Q2. cord The rest.

[899] here] heare Q3 Q4.

[900] [Exeunt.] Rowe. Exit. Qq Ff.

[901] SCENE III.] Rowe. SCENE V. Pope. SCENE VI. Capell.

Friar....] Capell. The Monastery. Rowe.

[902] Enter Friar Laurence.] Capell. Enter Frier. (Q1). Enter Frier and Romeo. Qq Ff.

[903] Romeo ... man:] One line in (Q1) Qq. Two in Ff.

man:] man; [Enter Romeo. Capell.

[904] Affliction] Aiffletion F3.

[905] Enter Romeo.] (Q1) Dyce.

[906] Father ... doom?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[907] acquaintance] admittance F4.

[908] with] in Rowe.

[909] What ... doom?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[910] gentler] gentle F4.

vanish'd] vanisht (Q1) Qq Ff. even'd Warburton. issued Heath conj.

[911] Much ... death] Than death itself (Q1) Pope.

[912] Here] Hence (Q1) Hanmer.

[913] Verona] Verona's Pope.

[914] torture, hell] torturing hell Hanmer. Tartar, hell Warburton.

[915] banished] banish'd Rowe.

banish'd] blanisht Q2. banished Rowe.

[916] world's exile] world exilde (Q1). world-exil'd Pope.

[917] then ... mis-term'd:] Omitted in (Q1) Pope.

[918] then] that Theobald.

banished] banishment Hanmer.

[919] banished] banishment (Q1) Pope.

[920] smilest] smil'st Q5 F3 F4.

[921] rush'd] push'd Capell conj. and Long MS. brush'd Collier MS.

[922] This] That Rowe.

dear] meere (Q1). meer Pope.

[923] Live] Lives Rowe.

[924] blessing] blessings F4.

[925] Who] Which Pope.

[926] Who ... 'banished'?] Put in the margin by Pope. See note (VIII).

[927] as] and Rowe (ed. 2).

[928] But ... death?] See note (IX).

[929] sharp-ground] Hyphen inserted in F4. sharpt ground F2.

[930] Howling attends] (Q1) Qq. Howlings attends F1. Howlings attend F2 F3 F4.

[931] sin-absolver] Ff. sin (or sinne) obsolver Qq.

[932] 'banished'] banishment (Q1) Pope.

[933] Thou ... word] (Q1) Malone. Then fond mad man, heare me a little speake Q2 Q3. Thou ... a little speake Q4 Q5. Then fond mad man, heare me speake F1. Fond mad man, heare me speake F2 F3 F4 (mad-man F4).

[934] thee] the F2.

keep off that] beare off this (Q1). bear off that Pope.

[935] more.] more: F2 F3 F4. more--Rowe.

[936] madmen] mad man Q2.

[937] How ... eyes?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

that] Q2. om. Q3 Q4 Ff Q5.

wise men] Qq. wisemen F1 F2. wise-men F3 F4.

[938] dispute] (Q1) Qq. dispaire F1 F2. despair F3 F4.

[939] thou] [yu] F1. tho F2.

[940] Wert thou as young] If thou wert young Seymour conj.

as I, Juliet thy] (Q1) Qq. as Juliet my Ff.

[941] murdered] murdered (Q1) F2.

[942] Then ... hair] One line in (Q1) Rowe. Two in Qq Ff.

mightst ... mightst] (Q1) Q5. mightest ... mightst Q2. mightest ... mightest Q3 Q4 F1 F2. might'st ... might'st F3 F4. (milh'st F4).

[943] [Knocking within.] Throwing himself on the ground. Knock within. Rowe. Enter Nurse, and knocke. Q2. Enter Nurse, and knockes. Q3 Ff. Nurse knocks. Q4 Q5.

[944] Arise ... thyself] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[945] Rom. Not I ... arise;] Omitted by Pope.

[946] Not I] As in Qq. In a separate line in Ff.

[947] [Knocking.] They knocke. Q2 Q3. Knocke. Q4 Ff Q5.

[948] Hark ... arise] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

Who's] whose Q2 Q3.

[949] [Knocking.] Sludknock. Q2. Slud knock. Q3. Knocke againe. Q4 Q5. Knocke. Ff.

[950] simpleness] wilfulness (Q1) Pope.

[Knocking.] Knocke. Qq Ff.

[951] Who ... will?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[952] Nurse [Within] Rowe. Nur. Qq Ff.

Let ... errand] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

errand] errant Q2 Q3.

[953] Enter Nurse.] As in Rowe. Inserted after line 78 in Qq Ff.

[954] Where is] (Q1) Rowe. Wheres Q2 Q3. Where's Q4 F1 Q5 F3. Wher's F2 F4.

[955] There ... drunk] One line in (Q1) Pope. Two in Qq Ff.

[956] mistress'] Pope. mistresse or mistress Qq Ff. mistress's Rowe.

case] cause F2 F3.

[957] O woeful ... predicament] Given to 'Friar' by Steevens (Farmer conj.). Continued to 'Nurse' in Qq Ff.

[958] lies] liles F2.

[959] Stand up ... stand;] Omitted by Pope.

[960] an you] Rowe (ed. 2). and you Qq Ff.

[961] an O? Rom. Nurse] an--Rom. Oh nurse Hanmer.

[962] Well, death's] (Q1) Malone. deaths Q2 Q3 F1 F2 F3. death's Q4 F4. death is Q5.

[963] Spakest] Q2 Q3 Q4. Spak'st Q5. Speak'st Ff.

is it] ist Q5. is't F4.

[964] she not] (Q1) Q5. not she Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff.

[965] I have] have I Rowe (ed. 2).

childhood] child-head Q5.

[966] doth] does F4.

[967] conceal'd] conseal'd Warburton.

our cancell'd] our canceld (Q1) Qq. our conceal'd Ff.

[968] calls ... cries] cries ... calls (Q1) Pope.

on] om. F3 F4.

[969] As if ... gun] As in Rowe. One line in (Q1) Qq Ff.

[970] dead'y] dead F1.

[971] Murder'd] Murdered F3 F4.

O] om. Pope.

[972] anatomy] anotamy F2.

[973] [Drawing his sword.] Theobald. om. Qq Ff. He offers to stab himselfe, and Nurse snatches the dagger away. (Q1).

hand:] hand. [wresting the Dagger from him. Capell.

[974] denote] (Q1) Q4 F1 Q5. denote Q2 Q3. doe note F2. do note F3 F4.

[975] Unseemly ... both!] Omitted by Pope.

[976] Or] (Q1) Steevens. And Qq Ff. An Warburton.

both] groth Warburton (? for growth).

[977] lady ... lives.] F4. lady, that in thy life lies, Qq F1 F2 F3. lady too, that lives in thee? (Q1) Pope.

[978] By doing ... defence] Omitted in (Q1) Pope.

[979] rail'st] raylest Q2 Q3 Q4.

[980] do meet In thee at once] so meet, In thee atone Warburton.

[981] lose] Q5 F3 F4. loose The rest.

[982] Which] Who Rowe (ed. 2).

a] an Q5 F4.

[983] Digressing] Disgressing Q3 Q4.

[984] in a] in the Capell (corrected in Errata).

[985] a-fire] Dyce. afire Collier. a fier Q2 Q3. a fire Q4 Ff. on fire Q5.

[986] slew'st ... too] (Q1) F2 F3 F4. slewest Tibalt, there art thou happie Qq. slew'st ... happie F1. slew'st Tybalt; there thou'rt happy too Pope.

[987] becomes] Qq. became Ff.

[988] turns] turnes Q2 Q4 Q5. turne Q3. turn'd Ff.

[989] of blessings] of blessing Q3. or blessing F1.

lights] (Q1) Q4. light Q2 Q3 Ff Q5.

[990] misbehaved and] (Q1) Q4 Q5. mishaued and Q2 Q3. mishaped and F1. mis-shaped and a F2 F3. misshapen and a F4. mis-hav'd and a Rowe.

[991] pout'st upon] powts upon Q4. poutst upon Q5. puts up Q2 Q3. puttest up Ff. frownst upon (Q1). poutest up Nicholson conj.

[992] the prince] Q2 Q4 Q5. thy prince Q3 Ff.

[993] all the night] Qq. all night Ff. all night long Pope.

[994] learning] learaing Q4.

[995] Here sir] Here is (Q1) Collier (ed. 2).

bid] Q2 Q3 Ff. bids Q4 Q5.

[996] [Exit.] Capell, after good night, line 166. om. Qq Ff. Exit Nurse. (Q1).

[997] Go hence ... hence:] Omitted in (Q1) Pope.

[998] Go hence] As in Qq. In a separate line in Ff.

[999] disguised] disguise Q2.

[1000] Farewell] om. Pope.

[1001] SCENE IV.] Rowe. SCENE VI. Pope. SCENE VII. Capell.

A room ...] Capell. Capulet's House. Rowe.

[1002] Enter ...] Rowe. Enter old Capulet, his wife and Paris. Qq Ff.

[1003] had] om. F3 F4.

[1004] I promise ... ago] Omitted by Pope.

[1005] a-bed] Rowe (ed. 2). a bed Qq Ff.

[1006] time] (Q1) Rowe. times Qq Ff.

woo] woe Q4.

[1007] I will ... heaviness] Omitted in (Q1) Pope.

[1008] she's mew'd] Theobald. shees mewed Q2. she is mewed Q3 Q4 Ff Q5. she is mew'd Rowe.

[1009] [calling him back. Capell.

desperate] separate Hanmer (Warburton).

[1010] be] me Q2.

[1011] nay ...not] nay, I not doubt it Hanmer.

[1012] here of] Q4 F3 F4. here, of Q2 F1 F2. hereof, Q3. here with Q5. there with Keightley.

[1013] next--] Rowe. next, Qq Ff.

[1014] Wednesday] Q5 F3 F4. Wendsday Q2 Q3 Q4 F1. Wensday F2.

[1015] O' Thursday ... haste?] On Thursday let it be: you shall be marry'd. (Q1) Pope.

[1016] O' ... o'] Capell. A ...a Qq Ff. On ... o' Theobald.

[1017] We'll keep] Well, keep Q2.

[1018] there] there's Rowe.

[1019] My lord] As in (Q1) Qq. In a separate line in Ff.

[1020] o'] Capell. a Qq Ff. on Pope.

[1021] [To Lady Capulet. Rowe.

[1022] Afore ... so very very late ... by] (Q1) Dyce. Afore ... so very late ... by Qq (in one line). Afore ... so late ... by Ff (in one line). Omitted by Pope. 'Fore me ... so very late ... by Theobald (ending the lines we ... night). 'Fore me ... so late ... by Johnson (ending the first line at call). Now, afore ... so very late ... by Capell, ending line 34 at late.

[1023] it] ir F1.

[1024] Good night] Goodight F2.

[Exeunt.] Qq Ff. Exeunt, severally. Theobald.

[1025] SCENE V.] Rowe. SCENE VII. Pope. ACT IV. SCENE I. Capell.

Capulet's orchard.] The Garden. Rowe. Juliet's Chamber looking to the Garden. Theobald. Anti-room of Juliet's Chamber. Capell.

[1026] Enter ... above, at the window.] Enter ... aloft. Qq Ff. Enter ... at the window. (Q1). Enter ... above, at a Window; a Ladder of Ropes set. Rowe.

[1027] it ... day:] Omitted in F2 F3 F4.

[1028] yond] Qq Ff. yon (Q1) Warburton.

[1029] of the] of F2 F3 F4.

[1030] jocund] F4. iocand Q2. iocond or jocond The rest.

[1031] mountain] mountaines Q3 Q4 F1 Q5.

[1032] Yond] Yon (Q1) F4.

it, I] it well Pope. it Johnson.

[1033] sun] fen or fens Anon. conj.

exhales] exhale Q2 Q5.

[1034] Therefore ... gone.] Then stay a while, thou need'st not go so soon Pope, from (Q1).

stay yet; thou] stay yet, thou Qq F1 F2 F3. stay yet thou F4. stay, yet thou Rowe.

need'st not to be] needest not be Q5.

[1035] Let me ... to go.] Put, with line 16, in the margin by Pope, giving in the text the corresponding lines of (Q1).

[1036] yon] Qq Ff.

the] the the Q2.

[1037] brow] bow Collier (Collier MS. and Singer MS.).

[1038] the] om. F1.

[1039] heaven] heavens F3 F4.

[1040] care ... will] will ... care Johnson conj.

[1041] How ... soul?] What says my love? (Q1) Pope.

talk:] talke Q2 Q3. talke, or talk The rest.

[1042] loathed] loaded Warburton (a misprint).

change] chang'd Rowe (ed. 2).

[1043] would they had] wot they have Hanmer. wot they had Warburton (a misprint for have).

[1044] Since ... day.] Omitted by Pope.

[1045] hence] up Johnson.

[1046] light it] Qq. itli ght F1. it light F2 F3 F4.

[1047] Rom. More ... woes!] Omitted by (Q1) Pope, who inserts instead l. 42, Farewell ... descend.

light: more] light, more Qq Ff. light?--More Theobald.

[1048] Enter ... chamber.] Edd. Enter Madame and Nurse. Qq Ff. Enter Nurse. Rowe. Enter Nurse, to the door. Capell.

[1049] Nurse?] Theobald. Nurse. Qq Ff.

[1050] [Exit.] Exit Nurse. Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[1051] Then ... out] Omitted by Pope. [opening it. Capell.

[1052] Rom. Farewell ... descend] Transferred to follow line 35 by Pope.

[1053] [Descends.] Romeo descends. Theobald. He goeth downe. (Q1). om. Qq Ff. Kisses her, and goes out of it. Capell.

[1054] my ... friend] (Q1) Boswell. love, Lord, ay husband, friend Qq F1. Love, Lord ah Husband, Friend F2 F3 F4. my love! my lord! my friend Malone. love, lord! my husband, friend Grant White conj.

[1055] day in the hour] hour in the day Collier (Collier MS.).

[Romeo comes down by the Ladder into the Garden. Rowe.

[1056] Farewell ... opportunity] As in Qq Ff. One line in Pope.

[1057] think'st] thinkst Q2 Q5. thinkest The rest.

[1058] our time] our times Q2. the time (Q1).

[1059] Jul.] Ro. Q2 Q3.

[1060] thee, now] Pope. thee now, Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff. thee now Q5.

below] (Q1) Pope. so lowe Qq Ff.

[1061] [Romeo descends. Pope.

[1062] look'st] lookest Q2 Q3 Q4.

[1063] my] mine Rowe (ed. 2).

[1064] [Exit.] Exeunt. Rowe (ed. 2).

[1065] SCENE VI. Juliet's Chamber. Enter Juliet. Rowe. SCENE VIII. Pope.

[1066] renown'd] renowmd Q2 Q3. renowm'd Q4.

[1067] La. Cap. [within] L. C. [within. Capell. La. or Lad. Qq Ff.

[1068] it is] Qq. is it Ff.

mother!] mother. Qq. mother? Ff.

[1069] Is ... early?] Omitted by Pope.

[1070] procures] provokes Hanmer.

hither] either Q3. hether Q4.

[1071] Enter Lady Capulet.] Capell. Enter Mother. Qq Ff (after line 64).

[1072] I am] I'm Pope.

[1073] An if ... wit.] Omitted by (Q1) Pope.

[1074] An] Theobald. And Qq Ff.

couldst ... couldst] wouldst ... couldst Collier MS.

[1075] La. Cap.] Rowe. La. or Lad. Qq Ff (and elsewhere).

[1076] La. Cap. So ... friend.] Omitted by Pope.

[1077] weep] do weep Theobald.

Feeling] But feeling or In feeling Mommsen conj.

[1078] slaughter'd] slaughtered Q3 Q4 Q5.

[1079] same] om. Hanmer.

[1080] [Aside] Hanmer.

be] are (Q1) Pope.

[1081] God ... girl.] See note (X).

[1082] pardon] padon Q2.

him] Q4 F2 Q5 F3 F4. om. Q2 Q3 F1.

with all] withall Q2 Q3.

[1083] murderer] Q2. om. Q3 Q4 Ff Q5.

[1084] Shall ... dram] That shall bestow on him so sure a draught Steevens, from (Q1).

unaccustom'd] accustom'd Q4.

[1085] him--dead--] Theobald. him. Dead Qq Ff. him--Dead Rowe.

[1086] vex'd] vext Johnson.

[1087] I would] I'd so Anon. apud Rann conj.

[1088] love] tender love Anon. conj.

bore] ever bore Lettsom conj. bore unto Anon. conj.

cousin] Qq F1. cousin, Tybalt F2 F3 F4. slaughter'd cousin Theobald. murder'd cousin Malone conj.

[1089] slaughter'd] slaughtered Q3 Q4.

[1090] La. Cap.] Rowe. Mo. Qq Ff (and elsewhere).

[1091] tidings] tiding Q4.

[1092] needy] needful (Q1) Pope.

[1093] I beseech] Q4 F2 Q5 F3 F4. beseech Q2 Q3 F1.

[1094] expect'st] Rowe (ed. 2). expects Qq Ff.

look'd] F4. lookt Qq F1 F3. looke F2.

[1095] that] Qq. this F1 Ff.

[1096] County] Count of Rowe (ed. 2).

Saint] St. F4.

[1097] happily] happly Q3 Q4.

there] Qq. om. Ff.

[1098] Saint] S. Q2.

[1099] should] must Q5.

woo] Q4. wooe Q2 Q3 Q5 F4. woe F1 F2 F3.

[1100] I swear,] Omitted by Pope, from (Q1).

[1101] These ... indeed!] Given to Lady Capulet by Collier (Collier MS.).

[1102] La. Cap.] Mer. Q4.

[1103] your] you F2.

[1104] Enter....] Enter Capulet, at a Distance; Nurse following. Capell, after line 123.

[1105] When ... downright.] Omitted by Pope.

[1106] air] ayre Q4. aire Q5. earth Q2 Q3 Ff.]

dew] daew F1.

[1107] It ... tears?] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[1108] showering? In ... body] Q5. showring in ... body? Q2 Q3 Ff. showring: In ... body? Q4.

[1109] Thou counterfeit'st a] Q5. Thou countefaits. A Q2. Thou counterfaits. A Q3. Thou counterfeits, a Q4. Thou counterfaits a F1. Thou counterfeits a F2. Thy counterfeits a F3. Thy Counterfeit's a F4.

[1110] is] om. F2 F3 F4.

[1111] Who] Which Pope.

thy] Qq. the Ff.

[1112] wife] wise Q4.

[1113] deliver'd] Rowe (ed. 2). delivered Qq Ff.

[1114] Ay, sir] Arranged as in Qq. In a separate line in Ff.

gives] give Q2.

thanks.] thankes. Q5. thanks? F4. thankes, Q2 Q3 F1 F2. thanks, F3.

[1115] How!] How? Q5. How Q2 Q3 Q4. How, Ff.

[1116] bridegroom] Bride Q2.

[1117] Not ... that you have] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

[1118] hate] Qq. have Ff.

[1119] that is meant] that's meant in Q5.

[1120] How ... this?] As one line in Qq. Two in Ff. Omitted in (Q1) Pope.

How, how! how, how!] Capell. How, how, howhow, Q2. How now, how now, Q3 Q4. How now? How now? Ff Q5.

chop-logic] Steevens (1793). chop logicke (Q1). chopt lodgick Q2 Q3 Q4. chopt logicke F1 F2. chopt logick Q5 F3 F4. chop logick Theobald.

[1121] 'I thank ... proud:'] yet not proud, ... And yet, I thank you, Lettsom conj.

[1122] And ... you,] Qq. Omitted in Ff.

proud:] Q4 Q5. proud Q2 Q3.

mistress] why, mistress Theobald. come, mistress Anon. conj.

[1123] fettle] (Q1) Qq F1. settle F2 F3 F4.

[1124] Out ... tallow-face] Omitted by Pope.

[1125] green-sickness] Hyphened in F4.

[1126] You] Out you F4.

tallow face] Hyphened in F4.

[1127] Cap.] Fa. Qq Ff.

[1128] thee] the F2.

o'] Theobald. a Qq Ff.

[1129] itch. Wife,] itch: Wife, Q5. itch, wife, Q2 Q3 Q4. itch, wife: Ff.

[1130] lent] sent (Q1) Pope.

[1131] curse] crosse (Q1). cross Grant White conj.

[1132] to blame] too blame Q3 F1 F2.

[1133] gossips,] Q3 Q4 Q5. gossips Q2. gossip, Ff.

[1134] Cap. O, God ye god-den.] Cap. O, God-ye-good-den? Capell. Cap: Oh goddegodden. (Q1). Fa. O Godigeden. Q4 Q5. Father, ô Godigeden, Q2 Q3 (as part of the Nurse's speech). Father, O Godigoden, F1. O Godigoden, F2 F3. O God gi' goode'en F4.

[1135] Nurse.] Q4 Q5. om. Q2 Q3 Ff.

Peace] Peace, peace Theobald.

mumbling] old mumbling Seymour conj.

[1136] gossip's] goships Q2.

bowl] bowles F1.

[1137] God's bread ... company] Qq Ff. God's ... work and play ... company Rowe (ed. 2). God's ... mad: day, night, late, early, At home, abroad; alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, Pope, from (Q1). Malone, reading early, late, follows Pope. As God's my friend! it makes me mad: Day, night, hundreds of times, at work at play, Alone, in company Bullock conj.

[1138] Johnson reads It makes ... play as one line, omitting God's bread and time.

[1139] tide] ride F1.

time] om. Keightley, reading God's ... provided as three lines, ending tide, ... care ... provided.

[1140] noble] princely (Q1) Capell.

[1141] demesnes] demeans F4. demeanes The rest.

train'd] (Q1) Capell. allied Q3 Q4 Ff Q5. liand Q2. 'lianc'd Capell conj. lined or loin'd Mommsen conj.

[1142] Proportion'd] Proportioned Q3 Q4.

thought would] heart could] (Q1) Capell.

[1143] fortune's] Theobald. fortunes Qq Ff.

[1144] an] Capell. and Qq Ff. if Pope.

[1145] An] Capell. And Qq Ff. If Pope.

[1146] starve] strave F1.

in the] i' th' Pope.

[1147] never] ever Q4 Q5.

[1148] dim] dun Johnson (1771).

[1149] O God] As in Qq. In a separate line in Ff.

[1150] My ... me] Omitted by Pope.

[1151] Alack, alack,] Hlacke, alacke F1. Alack! Hanmer.

[1152] What ... nurse.] Omitted by Pope.

[1153] Faith ... nothing] As in Ff. One line in Qq. Capell ends the first line at Romeo, reading 'tis and banished.

[1154] and] om. Pope.

[1155] by] my Q4.

[1156] county] count F2 F3 F4.

[1157] O, he's] Oh, 'faith, he is Hanmer.

gentleman!] gentleman! Romeo! Capell. gentleman in sooth! Keightley. lovely gentleman! Anon. conj.

[1158] green] keen Hanmer.

[1159] beshrew] Q5 F4. beshrow The rest.

[1160] here] hence Hanmer. there Anon. conj.

[1161] Speakest] Speakst Q2.

[1162] And ... else ... both] Q2. And ... or else ... both Q3 Q4 Q5. And ... Or else ... both Ff (to, F4), as two lines.

from] om. Capell conj.

too] om. Hanmer.

beshrew] (Q1) Qq Ff.

[1163] What?] To what? Hanmer. What say you? Dyce conj.

[1164] absolved] obsolu'd Q2.

[1165] [Exit.] om. Q2 Q3 F1. She lookes after Nurse. (Q1).

[1166] wicked] wither'd S. Walker conj. wrinkled Id. conj. (withdrawn).

[1167] Is it] It is F1.

[1168] henceforth] henchforth F1 F2.

[1169] [Exit.] Qq. Exeunt. Ff.

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.

Act IV, 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.

Act IV, 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]

Act IV, 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.

Act IV, 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.

Act V, Scene I — Mantua. A street.[1393]

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.

Act V, 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

Act V, 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.

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ROMEO AND IULIET.