Chapter III: Act I: SCENE I. Verona. A public place.6

_Enter_ SAMPSON _and_ GREGORY, _of the house of Capulet, with_
_swords and bucklers._

_Sam._ Gregory, on my word, we'll not carry coals.[7]

_Gre._ No, for then we should be colliers.

_Sam._ I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.[8][9]

_Gre._ Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the[8][10]
collar.[8] 5

_Sam._ I strike quickly, being moved.

_Gre._ But thou art not quickly moved to strike.

_Sam._ A dog of the house of Montague moves me.

_Gre._ To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand:[11]
therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.[11] 10

_Sam._ A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I[12][13]
will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.[13]

_Gre._ That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest[14]
goes to the wall.

_Sam._ 'Tis true; and therefore women, being the weaker[15][16] 15
vessels, are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push[16]
Montague's men from the wall and thrust his maids to
the wall.

_Gre._ The quarrel is between our masters and us their[17]
men. 20

_Sam._ 'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I
have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the maids;[18]
I will cut off their heads.[19]

_Gre._ The heads of the maids?[20]

_Sam._ Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;[21] 25
take it in what sense thou wilt.

_Gre._ They must take it in sense that feel it.[22]

_Sam._ Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and[23]
'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.[23]

_Gre._ 'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou 30
hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool; here comes two of[24]
the house of Montagues.[25]

_Enter_ ABRAHAM _and_ BALTHASAR.

_Sam._ My naked weapon is out: quarrel; I will back
thee.

_Gre._ How! turn thy back and run?[26] 35

_Sam._ Fear me not.

_Gre._ No, marry; I fear thee![27]

_Sam._ Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.

_Gre._ I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as
they list. 40

_Sam._ Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at
them; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.[28]

_Abr._ Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

_Sam._ I do bite my thumb, sir.

_Abr._ Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? 45

_Sam._ [_Aside to Gre._] Is the law of our side, if I say ay?[29]

_Gre._ No.

_Sam._ No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir; but
I bite my thumb, sir.

_Gre._ Do you quarrel, sir? 50

_Abr._ Quarrel, sir! no, sir.[30]

_Sam._ But if you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good[31]
a man as you.

_Abr._ No better.[32]

_Sam._ Well, sir.[33] 55

_Enter_ BENVOLIO.

_Gre._ [_Aside to Sam._] Say 'better': here comes one of[34]
my master's kinsmen.

_Sam._ Yes, better, sir.[35]

_Abr._ You lie.

_Sam._ Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy 60
swashing blow.[36] [_They fight._

_Ben._ Part, fools![37][38] [_Beating down their weapons._
Put up your swords; you know not what you do.[37]

_Enter_ TYBALT.

_Tyb._ What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?[39]
Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.[39] 65

_Ben._ I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,
Or manage it to part these men with me.

_Tyb._ What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,[40]
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:
Have at thee, coward![41] [_They fight._ 70

_Enter several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter_ Citizens
_and_ Peace-officers, _with clubs_.

_First Off._ Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down![42]
Down with the Capulets! down with the Montagues![43]

_Enter old_ CAPULET _in his gown, and_ LADY CAPULET.

_Cap._ What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!

_La. Cap._ A crutch, a crutch! why call you for a sword?[44]

_Cap._ My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,[45] 75
And flourishes his blade in spite of me.[46]

_Enter old_ MONTAGUE _and_ LADY MONTAGUE.

_Mon._ Thou villain Capulet!--Hold me not, let me go.[47]

_La. Mon._ Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.[48]

_Enter_ PRINCE ESCALUS, _with his train_.

_Prin._ Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,--[49] 80
Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands[50]
Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,[51] 85
And hear the sentence of your moved prince.
Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,[52]
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,
And made Verona's ancient citizens[53] 90
Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,[54]
To wield old partisans, in hands as old,[55]
Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:[55][56]
If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. 95
For this time, all the rest depart away:
You, Capulet, shall go along with me;
And, Montague, come you this afternoon,
To know our farther pleasure in this case,[57]
To old Free-town, our common judgement-place. 100
Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.[58]

[_Exeunt all but Montague, Lady Montague, and Benvolio._

_Mon._ Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach?[59]
Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?

_Ben._ Here were the servants of your adversary
And yours close fighting ere I did approach: 105
I drew to part them: in the instant came
The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared;
Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears,
He swung about his head, and cut the winds,[60]
Who, nothing hurt withal, hiss'd him in scorn:[61] 110
While we were interchanging thrusts and blows,[62]
Came more and more, and fought on part and part,
Till the prince came, who parted either part.[63]

_La. Mon._ O, where is Romeo? saw you him to-day?[64]
Right glad I am he was not at this fray.[65] 115

_Ben._ Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun
Peer'd forth the golden window of the east,
A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad:[66]
Where, underneath the grove of sycamore[67]
That westward rooteth from the city's side,[68] 120
So early walking did I see your son:
Towards him I made; but he was ware of me,
And stole into the covert of the wood:
I, measuring his affections by my own,
Which then most sought where most might not be found,[69] 125
Being one too many by my weary self,[70]
Pursued my humour, not pursuing his,[71]
And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me.[72]

_Mon._ Many a morning hath he there been seen,
With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew,[73] 130
Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs:[74]
But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
Should in the farthest east begin to draw[75]
The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,
Away from light steals home my heavy son, 135
And private in his chamber pens himself,
Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out
And makes himself an artificial night:
Black and portentous must this humour prove,[76]
Unless good counsel may the cause remove. 140

_Ben._ My noble uncle, do you know the cause?[77]

_Mon._ I neither know it nor can learn of him.

_Ben._ Have you importuned him by any means?[78]

_Mon._ Both by myself and many other friends:
But he, his own affections' counsellor,[79] 145
Is to himself--I will not say how true--
But to himself so secret and so close,
So far from sounding and discovery,[80]
As is the bud bit with an envious worm,
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, 150
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.[81]
Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow,
We would as willingly give cure as know.[82]

_Enter_ ROMEO.

_Ben._ See, where he comes: so please you, step aside;
I'll know his grievance, or be much denied. 155

_Mon._ I would thou wert so happy by thy stay,
To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away.[83]

[_Exeunt Montague and Lady._

_Ben._ Good morrow, cousin.

_Rom._ Is the day so young?

_Ben._ But new struck nine.

_Rom._ Ay me! sad hours seem long.[84]
Was that my father that went hence so fast?[85] 160

_Ben._ It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?

_Rom._ Not having that which, having, makes them short.

_Ben._ In love?[86]

_Rom._ Out--[87]

_Ben._ Of love?[88] 165

_Rom._ Out of her favour, where I am in love.

_Ben._ Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

_Rom._ Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,
Should without eyes see pathways to his will![89] 170
Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?
Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
Here's much to do with hate, but more with love:
Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create![90] 175
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms![91]
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this. 180
Dost thou not laugh?

_Ben._ No, coz, I rather weep.

_Rom._ Good heart, at what?[92]

_Ben._ At thy good heart's oppression.

_Rom._ Why, such is love's transgression.
Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast;[93]
Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest[94] 185
With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown
Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.[95]
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;[96]
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;[97]
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:[98] 190
What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Farewell, my coz.

_Ben._ Soft! I will go along:[99]
An if you leave me so, you do me wrong.[100]

_Rom._ Tut, I have lost myself; I am not here;[101] 195
This is not Romeo, he's some other where.

_Ben._ Tell me in sadness, who is that you love.[102]

_Rom._ What, shall I groan and tell thee?[103]

_Ben._ Groan! why, no;[103]
But sadly tell me who.[104]

_Rom._ Bid a sick man in sadness make his will:[105] 200
Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill![106]
In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.

_Ben._ I aim'd so near when I supposed you loved.

_Rom._ A right good mark-man! And she's fair I love.[107]

_Ben._ A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit. 205

_Rom._ Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit[108]
With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit,
And in strong proof of chastity well arm'd,
From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd.[109]
She will not stay the siege of loving terms, 210
Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes,[110]
Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold:[111]
O, she is rich in beauty, only poor
That, when she dies, with beauty dies her store.[112]

_Ben._ Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste? 215

_Rom._ She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste;[113]
For beauty, starved with her severity,[114]
Cuts beauty off from all posterity.
She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,[115]
To merit bliss by making me despair: 220
She hath forsworn to love; and in that vow
Do I live dead, that live to tell it now.

_Ben._ Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.

_Rom._ O, teach me how I should forget to think.

_Ben._ By giving liberty unto thine eyes;[116] 225
Examine other beauties.[117]

_Rom._ 'Tis the way[117][118]
To call hers, exquisite, in question more:[119]
These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows,[120]
Being black, put us in mind they hide the fair;
He that is strucken blind cannot forget[121] 230
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost:
Show me a mistress that is passing fair,
What doth her beauty serve but as a note[122]
Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?[123]
Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget. 235

_Ben._ I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt. [_Exeunt._

SCENE II. _A street._[124]

_Enter_ CAPULET, PARIS, _and_ Servant.[125]

_Cap._ But Montague is bound as well as I,[126][127]
In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think,[127][128]
For men so old as we to keep the peace.[129]

_Par._ Of honourable reckoning are you both;
And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long. 5
But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?

_Cap._ But saying o'er what I have said before:
My child is yet a stranger in the world;
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years:
Let two more summers wither in their pride 10
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.

_Par._ Younger than she are happy mothers made.[130]

_Cap._ And too soon marr'd are those so early made.[131]
The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she,[132]
She is the hopeful lady of my earth:[133] 15
But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart;
My will to her consent is but a part;
An she agree, within her scope of choice[134]
Lies my consent and fair according voice.[135]
This night I hold an old accustom'd feast, 20
Whereto I have invited many a guest,
Such as I love; and you among the store,
One more, most welcome, makes my number more.[136]
At my poor house look to behold this night
Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light:[137] 25
Such comfort as do lusty young men feel[138]
When well-apparell'd April on the heel
Of limping winter treads, even such delight
Among fresh female buds shall you this night[139]
Inherit at my house; hear all, all see, 30
And like her most whose merit most shall be:
Which on more view, of many mine being one[140]
May stand in number, though in reckoning none.[141]
Come, go with me. Go, sirrah, trudge about
Through fair Verona; find those persons out 35
Whose names are written there and to them say,[142]
My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.[143]

[_Exeunt Capulet and Paris._

_Serv._ Find them out whose names are written here![144]
It is written that the shoemaker should meddle with his[144]
yard and the tailer with his last, the fisher with his pencil 40
and the painter with his nets; but I am sent to find those
persons whose names are here writ, and can never find[145]
what names the writing person hath here writ. I must to[146]
the learned. In good time.[146]

_Enter_ BENVOLIO _and_ ROMEO.

_Ben._ Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning,[147] 45
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;[148]
Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;[149]
One desperate grief cures with another's languish:[150]
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,[151]
And the rank poison of the old will die. 50

_Rom._ Your plantain-leaf is excellent for that.

_Ben._ For what, I pray thee?

_Rom._ For your broken shin.

_Ben._ Why, Romeo, art thou mad?

_Rom._ Not mad, but bound more than a madman is;
Shut up in prison, kept without my food, 55
Whipt and tormented and--God-den, good fellow.[152]

_Serv._ God gi' god-den. I pray, sir, can you read?[153]

_Rom._ Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.

_Serv._ Perhaps you have learned it without book: but,[154][155]
I pray, can you read any thing you see?[154] 60

_Rom._ Ay, if I know the letters and the language.

_Serv._ Ye say honestly: rest you merry!

_Rom._ Stay, fellow; I can read.[156] [_Reads._

'Signior Martino and his wife and daughters; County[157][158]
Anselme and his beauteous sisters; the lady widow of[157][159] 65
Vitruvio; Signior Placentio and his lovely nieces; Mercutio[157]
and his brother Valentine; mine uncle Capulet, his wife,[157]
and daughters; my fair niece Rosaline; Livia; Signior[157][160]
Valentio and his cousin Tybalt; Lucio and the lively[157][161]
Helena.'[157] 70

A fair assembly: whither should they come?[162]

_Serv._ Up.[163]

_Rom._ Whither?[164]

_Serv._ To supper; to our house.[164][165]

_Rom._ Whose house? 75

_Serv._ My master's.

_Rom._ Indeed, I should have ask'd you that before.

_Serv._ Now I'll tell you without asking: my master is
the great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of
Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine. Rest[166] 80
you merry![167] [_Exit._

_Ben._ At this same ancient feast of Capulet's[168]
Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest,[169]
With all the admired beauties of Verona:
Go thither, and with unattainted eye 85
Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.[170]

_Rom._ When the devout religion of mine eye
Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires;[171]
And these, who, often drown'd, could never die,[172] 90
Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!
One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun[173]
Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.

_Ben._ Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by,[174]
Herself poised with herself in either eye: 95
But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd[175]
Your lady's love against some other maid[176]
That I will show you shining at this feast,
And she shall scant show well that now seems best.[177]

_Rom._ I'll go along, no such sight to be shown,[178] 100
But to rejoice in splendour of mine own.[179] [_Exeunt._

SCENE III. _A room in Capulet's house._[180]

_Enter_ LADY CAPULET _and_ Nurse.[181]

_La. Cap._ Nurse, where's my daughter? call her forth to me.[182]

_Nurse._ Now, by my maidenhead at twelve year old,[183][184]
I bade her come. What, lamb! what, lady-bird!--[183][185]
God forbid!--Where's this girl? What, Juliet![183]

_Enter_ JULIET.

_Jul._ How now! who calls?[186] 5

_Nurse._ Your mother.[186]

_Jul._ Madam, I am here. What is your will?[186][187]

_La. Cap._ This is the matter. Nurse, give leave awhile,[182][188]
We must talk in secret:--nurse, come back again;[188]
I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel.[188][189] 10
Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age.[188][190]

_Nurse._ Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.

_La. Cap._ She's not fourteen.[182]

_Nurse._ I'll lay fourteen of my teeth,--[191][192]
And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four,--[191][193]
She is not fourteen. How long is it now[191][194] 15
To Lammas-tide?[191]

_La. Cap._ A fortnight and odd days.[182][195][196]

_Nurse._ Even or odd, of all days in the year,[195][197]
Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.[195]
Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!--[195]
Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;[195] 20
She was too good for me:--but, as I said,[195]
On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;[195]
That shall she, marry; I remember it well.[195][198]
'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;[195]
And she was wean'd,--I never shall forget it--[195] 25
Of all the days of the year, upon that day:[195][199]
For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,[195]
Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;[195][196]
My lord and you were then at Mantua:--[195]
Nay, I do bear a brain:--but, as I said,[195] 30
When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple[195]
Of my dug, and felt it bitter, pretty fool,[195]
To see it tetchy, and fall out with the dug![195][200]
Shake, quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,[195]
To bid me trudge.[195] 35
And since that time it is eleven years;[195][201]
For then she could stand high-lone; nay, by the rood,[195][202]
She could have run and waddled all about;[195]
For even the day before, she broke her brow:[195]
And then my husband,--God be with his soul![195][203] 40
A' was a merry man--took up the child:[195]
'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?[195]
Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;[195]
Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidame,[195][204]
The pretty wretch left crying, and said 'Ay.'[195] 45
To see now how a jest shall come about![195]
I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,[195][205]
I never should forget it: 'Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he;[195][206]
And, pretty fool, it stinted, and said 'Ay.'[195]

_La. Cap._ Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace.[207] 50

_Nurse._ Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh,[208]
To think it should leave crying, and say 'Ay:'[208]
And yet, I warrant, it had upon it brow[208][209]
A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone;[208]
A perilous knock; and it cried bitterly:[208][210] 55
'Yea,' quoth my husband, 'fall'st upon thy face?[208]
Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age;[208]
Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted, and said 'Ay.'[208][211]

_Jul._ And stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I.[212]

_Nurse._ Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace![213][214] 60
Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed:[213][215]
An I might live to see thee married once,[213][216]
I have my wish.[213]

_La. Cap._ Marry, that 'marry' is the very theme[207][217]
I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,[218] 65
How stands your disposition to be married?[219]

_Jul._ It is an honour that I dream not of.[220][221]

_Nurse._ An honour! were not I thine only nurse,[221][222][223]
I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat.[222][224]

_La. Cap._ Well, think of marriage now; younger than you[207] 70
Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,[225]
Are made already mothers. By my count,[226]
I was your mother much upon these years
That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief;
The valiant Paris seeks you for his love. 75

_Nurse._ A man, young lady! lady, such a man[227]
As all the world--why, he's a man of wax.[227][228]

_La. Cap._ Verona's summer hath not such a flower.[207]

_Nurse._ Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower.

_La. Cap._ What say you? can you love the gentleman?[207][229] 80
This night you shall behold him at our feast:[229]
Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,[229][230]
And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;[229]
Examine every married lineament,[229][231]
And see how one another lends content;[229] 85
And what obscured in this fair volume lies[229]
Find written in the margent of his eyes.[229]
This precious book of love, this unbound lover,[229]
To beautify him, only lacks a cover:[229]
The fish lives in the sea; and 'tis much pride[229][232] 90
For fair without the fair within to hide:[229][233]
That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,[229][234]
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story:[229]
So shall you share all that he doth possess,[229]
By having him making yourself no less.[229] 95

_Nurse._ No less! nay, bigger: women grow by men.[229][235]

_La. Cap._ Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?[207]

_Jul._ I'll look to like, if looking liking move:
But no more deep will I endart mine eye[236]
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.[237] 100

_Enter a_ Servingman.

_Serv._ Madam, the guests are come, supper served up,
you called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in
the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must hence to
wait; I beseech you, follow straight.

_La. Cap._ We follow thee. [_Exit Servingman._] Juliet,[238]
the county stays.[239][240] 105

_Nurse._ Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.[239]

[_Exeunt._

SCENE IV. _A street._

_Enter_ ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, _with five or six other_ Maskers,
_and_ Torch-bearers.[241]

_Rom._ What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse?[242]
Or shall we on without apology?

_Ben._ The date is out of such prolixity:[243]
We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf,
Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath, 5
Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper;[244]
Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke[245][246]
After the prompter, for our entrance:[245][247]
But, let them measure us by what they will,
We'll measure them a measure, and be gone. 10

_Rom._ Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling;
Being but heavy, I will bear the light.[248]

_Mer._ Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.[249]

_Rom._ Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes
With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead[250] 15
So stakes me to the ground, I cannot move.

_Mer._ You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,[251]
And soar with them above a common bound.[251]

_Rom._ I am too sore enpierced with his shaft[251][252]
To soar with his light feathers, and so bound,[251][253] 20
I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe:[251]
Under love's heavy burthen do I sink.[251][254]

_Mer._ And, to sink in it, should you burthen love;[251][255]
Too great oppression for a tender thing.[251]

_Rom._ Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,[251] 25
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.[251][256]

_Mer._ If love be rough with you, be rough with love;[251]
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.[251][257]
Give me a case to put my visage in:[258]
A visor for a visor! what care I[259] 30
What curious eye doth quote deformities?[260]
Here are the beetle-brows shall blush for me.

_Ben._ Come, knock and enter, and no sooner in[261]
But every man betake him to his legs.[261][262]

_Rom._ A torch for me: let wantons light of heart 35
Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels;
For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase;
I'll be a candle-holder, and look on.[263]
The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done.[264][265]

_Mer._ Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word:[264] 40
If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire[264][266]
Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st[264][267]
Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho.[264][268]

_Rom._ Nay, that's not so.[264]

_Mer._ I mean, sir, in delay[264][269]
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.[264][270] 45
Take our good meaning, for our judgement sits[264][271]
Five times in that ere once in our five wits.[264][272]

_Rom._ And we mean well, in going to this mask;[264]
But 'tis no wit to go.[264]

_Mer._ Why, may one ask?

_Rom._ I dreamt a dream to-night.

_Mer._ And so did I. 50

_Rom._ Well, what was yours?

_Mer._ That dreamers often lie.

_Rom._ In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.[273]

_Mer._ O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.[274]
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes[275]
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone[274][276] 55
On the fore-finger of an alderman,[274]
Drawn with a team of little atomies[274][277]
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep:[274][278]
Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs;[274][279]
The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;[274] 60
Her traces, of the smallest spider's web;[274][280]
Her collars, of the moonshine's watery beams;[274][281]
Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film;[274][282]
Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat,[274][283]
Not half so big as a round little worm[274] 65
Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid:[274][284]
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut,[274][285]
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,[274][285]
Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.[274][285][286]
And in this state she gallops night by night[274] 70
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;[274]
O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight;[274][287]
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees;[274][288]
O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream,[274][289]
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,[274] 75
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:[274][290]
Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,[274][291]
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;[274][292]
And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail[274][293][294]
Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,[274][295] 80
Then he dreams of another benefice:[274][296]
Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,[274][293]
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,[274]
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,[274]
Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon[274][297] 85
Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,[274][298]
And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two,[274]
And sleeps again. This is that very Mab[274]
That plats the manes of horses in the night[274]
And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs,[274][299] 90
Which once untangled much misfortune bodes:[274][300]
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage:
This is she--

_Rom._ Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace![301] 95
Thou talk'st of nothing.

_Mer._ True, I talk of dreams;
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air,
And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes[302] 100
Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.[303]

_Ben._ This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves;
Supper is done, and we shall come too late. 105

_Rom._ I fear, too early: for my mind misgives
Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,[304]
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels, and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast,[305] 110
By some vile forfeit of untimely death:
But He, that hath the steerage of my course,[306][307]
Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.[307][308]

_Ben._ Strike, drum.[309] [_Exeunt._

SCENE V. _A hall in Capulet's house._[310]

Musicians _waiting. Enter_ Servingmen, _with napkins_.[311]

_First Serv._ Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take[312][313]
away? he shift a trencher! he scrape a trencher![313]

_Sec. Serv._ When good manners shall lie all in one or[314][315][316]
two men's hands, and they unwashed too, 'tis a foul thing.[315]

_First Serv._ Away with the joint-stools, remove the[312][317] 5
court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save me a[318]
piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let the porter[319]
let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. Antony, and Potpan![320]

_Sec. Serv._ Ay, boy, ready.[321]

_First Serv._ You are looked for and called for, asked[312][322] 10
for and sought for, in the great chamber.

_Third Serv._ We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly,[323][324]
boys; be brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.[324][325]

[_They retire behind._

_Enter_ CAPULET, _with_ JULIET _and others of his house, meeting the_
Guests _and_ Maskers.

_Cap._ Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes[326]
Unplagued with corns will have a bout with you:[327] 15
Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all[328]
Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty,
She, I'll swear, hath corns; am I come near ye now?[329]
Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day[330]
That I have worn a visor, and could tell 20
A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear,
Such as would please: 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone:
You are welcome, gentlemen! Come, musicians, play.[331][332]
A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls.[331][333]

[_Music plays, and they dance._

More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up,[334] 25
And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.
Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well.
Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet;
For you and I are past our dancing days:
How long is't now since last yourself and I 30
Were in a mask?[335]

_Sec. Cap._ By'r lady, thirty years.[336]

_Cap._ What, man! 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much:
'Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio,[337]
Come Pentecost as quickly as it will,
Some five and twenty years; and then we mask'd. 35

_Sec. Cap._ 'Tis more, 'tis more: his son is elder, sir;
His son is thirty.[338]

_Cap._ Will you tell me that?[339]
His son was but a ward two years ago.[340]

_Rom._ [_To a Servingman_] What lady's that, which doth enrich the hand
Of yonder knight? 40

_Serv._ I know not, sir.[341]

_Rom._ O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night[342]
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;[343]
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! 45
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,[344]
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.[345]
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! 50
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.[346]

_Tyb._ This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave[347]
Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,[348]
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity? 55
Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.[349]

_Cap._ Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?[350]

_Tyb._ Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe;
A villain, that is hither come in spite, 60
To scorn at our solemnity this night.

_Cap._ Young Romeo is it?[351]

_Tyb._ 'Tis he, that villain Romeo.

_Cap._ Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone,
He bears him like a portly gentleman;[352]
And, to say truth, Verona brags of him 65
To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:
I would not for the wealth of all this town[353]
Here in my house do him disparagement:
Therefore be patient, take no note of him:
It is my will, the which if thou respect, 70
Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,
An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.

_Tyb._ It fits, when such a villain is a guest:[354]
I'll not endure him.

_Cap._ He shall be endured:
What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to;[355] 75
Am I the master here, or you? go to.[355][356]
You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul,[355]
You'll make a mutiny among my guests![355][357]
You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man![355][358]

_Tyb._ Why, uncle, 'tis a shame.[355]

_Cap._ Go to, go to;[355] 80
You are a saucy boy: is't so, indeed?[355][359]
This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what:[355]
You must contrary me! marry, 'tis time.[360]
Well said, my hearts! You are a princox; go:[360]
Be quiet, or--More light, more light! For shame![361] 85
I'll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts!

_Tyb._ Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting
Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.
I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall,
Now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall.[362] [_Exit._ 90

_Rom._ [_To Juliet_] If I profane with my unworthiest hand[363]
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this,[364]
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand[365]
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

_Jul._ Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,[366] 95
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,[367]
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

_Rom._ Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

_Jul._ Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. 100

_Rom._ O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

_Jul._ Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.[368][369]

_Rom._ Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.[368][370]
Thus from my lips by thine my sin is purged.[368][371] 105

[_Kissing her._

_Jul._ Then have my lips the sin that they have took.[368][372]

_Rom._ Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged![368]
Give me my sin again.[368][373]

_Jul._ You kiss by the book.

_Nurse._ Madam, your mother craves a word with you.

_Rom._ What is her mother?

_Nurse._ Marry, bachelor,[374] 110
Her mother is the lady of the house,
And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous:
I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal;
I tell you, he that can lay hold of her[375]
Shall have the chinks.

_Rom._ Is she a Capulet?[376] 115
O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.[377]

_Ben._ Away, be gone; the sport is at the best.

_Rom._ Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest.[378]

_Cap._ Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone;
We have a trifling foolish banquet towards.[379] 120
Is it e'en so? why, then, I thank you all;
I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night.
More torches here! Come on then, let's to bed.[380]
Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late:[381]
I'll to my rest. [_Exeunt all but Juliet and Nurse._[382] 125

_Jul._ Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?[383]

_Nurse._ The son and heir of old Tiberio.

_Jul._ What's he that now is going out of door?[384]

_Nurse._ Marry, that, I think, be young Petruchio.[385]

_Jul._ What's he that follows there, that would not dance?[386] 130

_Nurse._ I know not.

_Jul._ Go, ask his name. If he be married,
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.[387]

_Nurse._ His name is Romeo, and a Montague,
The only son of your great enemy.[388] 135

_Jul._ My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late![389]
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.

_Nurse._ What's this? what's this?[390]

_Jul._ A rhyme I learn'd even now[391] 140
Of one I danced withal. [_One calls within_ 'Juliet.'

_Nurse._ Anon, anon!
Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone.[392] [_Exeunt._

FOOTNOTES:

[6] ACT I. SCENE I.] Actus Primus. Scæna Prima. Ff. Omitted in Qq.

Verona. A public Place.] Capell. A Street in Verona. Rowe.

of the ... bucklers.] with ... bucklers, of ... Capulet. Qq Ff. See note (1).

[7] _on_] Qq. _A_ F1 F2 F3. _a_ F4. _o'_ Capell.

[8] Sam. _I ... draw._ Gre. _Ay ... collar._] Omitted by Pope.

[9] _an_] Theobald. _and_ Qq. _if_ Ff.

[10] _out o' the_] _out o' th_ F1 F2. _out o' th'_ F3 F4. _out of_ Q2 Q3. _out of the_ Q4 Q5.

[11] _To ... away._] As prose first by Pope. Two lines, the first ending _stand_: in Qq Ff.

[12] _A ... stand_:] Prose by Pope. One line in Qq Ff.

[13] _I ... Montague's_] As prose in Q2. One line in the rest.

[14] _a weak slave_] _weake slave_ F2. _weak slave_ F3. _weak, slave_ F4.

[15] _'Tis true_] Q5. _Tis true_ Q2 Q3 Q4. _True_ Ff.

[16] _weaker vessels_] _weakest vessels_ F3 F4. _weakest_ Warburton.

[17] _us_] _not us_ Martley conj.

[18] _cruel_] _cruell_ Q4 Q5. _ciuil_ Q2. _ciuill_ Q3 F1. _civill_ F2. _civil_ F3 F4.

[19] _I will cut_] Qq. _and cut_ Ff.

[20] _maids?_] Ff. _maids._ Q2 Q3. _maides._ Q4. _maids!_ Q5.

[21] _their_] _the_ Warburton, from (Q1).

[22] _in_] (Q1) Q4 F2 Q5 F3 F4. om. Q2 Q3 F1.

[23] _Me ... flesh_] Prose in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _stand_: in Ff.

[24] _comes two of_] Malone, from (Q1). _comes of_ Qq Ff.

[25] _house of_] Qq. _house of the_ Ff.

Enter....] Rowe. Enter two other servingmen. Qq Ff. Transferred to follow line 42 by Dyce.

[26] _run?_] _run._ F1 F2.

[27] _thee!_] Q5. _thee._ The rest.

[28] _a_] om. Q2.

[29] [Aside....] First marked by Capell.

_of_] _on_ Q5.

[30] _sir! no_,] _sir, no_ Qq. _sir? no_ Ff.

[31] _But if_] Qq. _If_ Ff.

[32] _better._] Qq. _better?_ Ff.

[33] Enter....] Transferred to line 61 by Dyce.

[34] [Aside....] First marked by Capell.

[35] _sir_] Qq. om. Ff.

[36] _swashing_] Q4 Q5. _washing_ Q2 Q3 Ff.

[37] _Part ... do._] As verse first by Capell. Prose in Qq Ff.

[38] [Beating ... weapons.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[39] _What ... death._] Divided as in Qq. Prose in Ff.

[40] _drawn_] _drawne_ Qq. _draw_ Ff.

[41] _thee_] _the_ Q3 F2.

[They fight.] Fight. Ff. om. Qq.

Enter....] Capell, substantially. Enter three or foure Citizens with Clubs or partysons. Qq (partisans Q5). Enter three or foure Citizens with Clubs. Ff.

[42] First Off.] Offi. Qq Ff. Cit. Steevens. 1 Cit. Malone.

_Down...._] Citizens. _Down...._ Edd. conj.

[43] and Lady Capulet.] Rowe. and his wife. Qq Ff.

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

_crutch_ (bis)] Ff Q5. _crowch_ Q2 Q3 Q4.

[45] _My sword_] _A sword_ F4.

[46] and Lady Montague.] Rowe. and his wife. Qq Ff.

[47] _Capulet!--Hold_] _Capulet. Hold_ Ff. _Capulet, hold_ Q2 Q3 Q4. _Capulet: hold_ Q5.

_let me go_] _let go_ S. Walker conj.

[48] La. Mon.] Rowe. M. Wife. 2. Qq. 2. Wife. Ff.

_one_] Qq. _a_ Ff.

Escalus,] Edd. Eskales, Qq Ff.

[49] _steel,--_] _steel--_ Rowe. _steele_, or _steel_, Qq Ff.

[50] _torture, from ... hands_] _torture from those bloudie hands,_ Q2 Q3 F4 (_bloudy_ Q3. _bloody_ F4). _torture, from those bloody hands,_ Q4.

_those_] _these_ F2 F3 F4.

[51] _mistemper'd_] Ff Q5. _mistempered_ Q2 Q3 Q4.

[52] _brawls_] _brawles_ Qq. _broyles_ Ff.

_airy_] _angry_ Collier MS.

[53] _made_] _make_ F2.

_Verona's_] _Neronas_ Q2.

[54] _grave beseeming_] _grave-beseeming_ S. Walker conj.

_ornaments_] _ornament_ F2 F3.

[55] _To wield ... hate_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[56] _Canker'd ... hate_] Omitted by Hanmer.

_part your_] _party our_ Q4.

[57] _farther_] Q2 Q4. _further_ Q5. _Fathers_ Q3 F1 F2 F3. _Father's_ F4.

[58] [Exeunt....] Exeunt. Qq Ff. Exeunt Prince and Capulet. &c. Rowe.

[59] SCENE II. Pope.

Mon.] Qq Ff. M. wife. (Q1). La. Moun. Rowe.

[60] _swung_] _swoong_ Q2. _swong_ The rest.

[61] _Who ... scorn_] Omitted by Pope.

_hiss'd_] _kiss'd_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[62] _thrusts_] _thrust_ Q4.

[63] _who ... part_] Omitted by Pope.

[64] La. Mon.] Rowe. Wife Qq Ff.

_saw ... to-day?_] Omitted by Pope.

[65] _I am_] Q2. _am I_ The rest.

[66] _drave_] _drive_ Q2.

_drave ... abroad_] _drew me from company_ (Q1) Pope. _drew me to walk abroad_ Theobald. _drew me from canopy_ Warburton conj. (withdrawn).

[67] _sycamore_] Q5. _syramour_ Q2 Q3 Q4. _sycamour_ Ff.

[68] _the city's_] Malone, from (Q1). _this citie_ Q2. _this city_ The rest. _the city_ Warburton. _this city_ Capell. _the city'_ Steevens.

[69] _Which ... found_] Q5. _Which ... sought, where ... found_ The rest. _That most are busied, when they're most alone_ Pope, from (Q1).

[70] _Being ... self_] Omitted in (Q1) Pope.

[71] _humour_] Q4 Q5. _humor_ Q2. _honour_ The rest.

_his_] _him_ Theobald (Thirlby conj.).

[72] _shunn'd_] Ff Q5. _shunned_ Q2 Q3 Q4.

_who_] _what_ Seymour conj.

[73] _morning's_] _mornings_ Qq F1 F2. _morning_ F3 F4.

[74] _Adding ... sighs_] Omitted by Pope.

[75] _Should_] _Does_ Seymour conj.

[76] _portentous_] F2 F3 F4. _portendous_ Q2 Q3 F1 Q5. _protendous_ Q4.

[77] _learn_] _learn it_ Rowe.

[78] _other_] _others_ F1.

[79] _his_] _is_ Q2.

[80] _discovery_,] After this Johnson conjectures that some lines are lost.

[81] _sun_] Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _same_ Qq Ff.

[82] Enter Romeo.] Qq Ff. Enter Romeo, at a distance. Capell. Transferred by Dyce to follow line 157.

[83] [Exeunt ...] Capell. Exeunt. Qq Ff.

[84] _struck_] Rowe. _strooke_ Qq F1 F2. _strook_ F3 F4.

_Ay_] _Ah_ Rowe.

[85] _hence_] _henec_ F1.

[86] _In love?_] Q5. _In love._ The rest.

[87] _Out_--] Rowe. _Out._ Qq Ff.

[88] _Of love?_] Q5. _Of love._ The rest.

[89] _see ... will_] _set pathways to our will_ Staunton conj.

_will_] _ill_ Hanmer.

[90] _create_] (Q1) F2 F3 F4. _created_ The rest.

[91] _well-seeming_] _welseeing_ Q2 Q3 F1.

[92] _Why, such is_] _Why such is, merely_, Seymour conj. _Why such, Benvolio, is_ Collier (Collier MS.). _Why, such, Benvolio, such is_ Mommsen conj. _Why, gentle cousin, such is_ Keightley.]

_Why ... transgression_] Omitted by Pope.

[93] _mine_] _my_ Q4 Q5.

[94] _if_] _them_ (Q1) Pope.

[95] _to too_] _too too_ Q2.

[96] _raised_] _rais'd_ Pope, from (Q1). _made_ Qq Ff.

[97] _purged_] _urg'd_ Singer, ed. 1, (Johnson conj). _puff'd_ Collier. (Collier MS.).

_sparkling_] _sparling_ F4.

[98] Before or after this line Johnson conjectured that a line is omitted.

_lovers'_] _lovers_ (Q1) Pope. _loving_ Qq Ff.

After this Keightley marks a line omitted.

[99] _coz_] _cousin_ Pope. _Cox_ Rowe (ed. 2).

_I will_] _I'll_ Pope.

[100] _An_] Hanmer. _And_ Qq Ff.

[101] _Tut_] _But_ F3 F4.

[102] _who is that_] _who she is_ Pope. _whom she is_ (Q1) Boswell.

[103] _Groan ... who_] As in Hanmer. One line in Qq Ff.

[104] _But ... who_] _But pry'thee tell me sadly who she is_ Seymour conj. _But sadly tell me, truly tell me who_ or _But sadly tell me, gentle cousin, who_ Taylor conj. MS. _But ... who she is you love_ Keightley.

[105] _Bid ... make_] (Q1) Q4 Q5. _A sicke man in sadnesse makes_ Q2 Q3 F1. _A sicke man in good sadnesse makes_ F2 F3 F4.

[106] _Ah, word_] (Q1) Malone. _A word_ Qq F1. _O. word_ F2 F3 F4.

[107] _mark-man_] _marks-man_ F3 F4.

[108] _Well_] Qq Ff. _But_ (Q1) Pope.

[109] _From ... unharm'd_] _'Gainst ... encharm'd_ Grant White conj.

_unharm'd_] (Q1) Pope. _uncharmd_ Qq Ff. _encharm'd_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[110] _bide_] Qq F3 F4. _bid_ F1 F2.

[111] _ope_] _open_ F1.

_saint-seducing_] _saint-seucing_ F2.

[112] _she_] om. Q4.

_with ... store_] _with her dies beauty's store_ Theobald. _with her dies beauty store_ Keightley.

[113] _makes_] _make_ Q2 Q3 F1.

[114] _starved_] _starv'd_ F4. _sterv'd_ The rest.

[115] _is too_] _is to_ Q4.

_wise, wisely too_] Qq F3 F4. _wisewi: sely too_ F1. _wise wisely too_ F2. _wise; too wisely_ Hanmer.

[116] Ben.] Q2 Q5 Ff. Ro. Q3 Q4.

[117] _'Tis ... more_] As in Pope. One line in Qq Ff.

[118] _in question_] _to question_ Keightley.

[119] _These_] _Those_ F3 F4.

[120] _put_] Q5 F3 F4. _puts_ Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2.

[121] _strucken_] Q5 F3 F4. _strooken_ The rest.

[122] _What_] _How_ Seymour conj.

_serve but as_] _serve for, but_ Seymour conj.

[123] _fair?_] Pope. _faire._ or _fair._ Qq Ff.

[124] SCENE II.] Capell. SCENE III. Pope.

A street.] Capell.

[125] Enter ...] Enter Capulet, Countie Paris, and the Clowne. Qq Ff.

[126] _But_] Q2. om. Q3 Ff. _And_ Q4 Q5.

[127] _I, In penalty alike_] _I, alike In penalty_ S. Walker conj.

[128] _I think_,] om. Pope.

[129] _as we_] om. Taylor conj. MS., reading _I think ... peace_, as one line.

[130] _happy_] _married_ Seymour conj.

[131] _made_] _married_ (Q1) Singer (ed. 2).

[132] _The earth_] Q4 Q5. _Earth_ Q2 Q3 F1. _Earth up_ F2 F3 F4.

_The earth hath swallow'd_] _Earth hath up-swallow'd_ Seymour conj.

_swallow'd_] Q5. _swallowed_ The rest.

_she_] _her_ Hanmer.

[133] _She is ... earth_] Omitted by (Q1) Pope. _She is the hope and stay of my full years_ Johnson conj.

_She is_] Q4 F2 Q5 F3 F4. _Shees_ Q2 Q3. _Shee's_ F1.

_earth_] _fee_ Keightley.

[134] _An_] Capell. _And_ Qq Ff. _If_ Rowe (ed. 2).

_agree_] _agreed_ Q2.

[135] _fair according_] _fair-according_ Nicholson conj.

[136] _One_] _Once_ Rowe.

_most welcome_] _o' th' welcome_ Hanmer.

_makes_] _make_ Capell conj.

[137] _make ... heaven light_] _make ... heaven's light_ Theobald. _make ... even light_ Warburton. _mask ... heaven's light_ Jackson conj.

[138] _young men_] _yeomen_ Johnson conj.

[139] _female_] (Q1) F2 F3 F4. _fennell_ Qq F1.

[140] _Which on more_] Q4 Q5. _Which one more_ Q2 Q3 Ff. _Such amongst_ (Q1) Steevens. _Within your_ Johnson conj. _On which more_ Capell. _Search among_ Steevens conj. _Whilst on more_ Dyce, ed. 2 (Mason conj.). _Which one, o'er_ Jackson conj.

_Which ... view, of_] _Such, amongst few; of_ Badham conj. _Which one may vie with_ Bullock conj. _Which one more, few or_ Id. conj. (withdrawn).

_view, of many_] _view, of many,_ Q2 F2 F3 F4. _veiw, of many_, Q3 F1. _view of many_, Q4 Q5.

[141] _May_] _My_ F2.

[142] [Gives a paper. Malone.

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

[144] _written here! It_] _written here? It_ Rowe. _written. Here it_ Qq F3 F4. _written. Heere it_ F1. _written. Heert it_ F2. _written here!_ [turns and twists the notes about.] _Here_ [tapping his head] _it_ Nicholson conj.

[145] _persons_] _persons out_ Capell.

_here writ_] Q2 Q3 Q5. _heee writ_ Q4. _writ_ Ff.

[146] _I ... learned_] Put in parenthesis in Qq Ff.

[147] _out_] _out_, Q2.

[148] _One_] _On_ Q2.

[149] _holp_] _help'd_ Pope.

[150] _desperate_] _desparate_ F1 F2.

_cures_] _cure_ Pope.

[151] _thy eye_] Q2. _the eye_ The rest.

[152] _and--God-den_] _and--Good-e'en_ Rowe. _and Godden_ Qq F1 F2 F3. _and Good-e'en_ F4.

[153] _God gi' god-den_] _Godgigoden_ Qq F1 F2 F3. _God gi' Good-e'en_ F4.

[154] _Perhaps ... see?_] Prose in Pope. Two lines in Qq Ff.

[155] _learned_] Qq. _learn'd_ Ff.

[156] [Reads.] He reades the Letter. Qq Ff. He reads the list. Johnson.

[157] _Signior ... Helena._] As nine lines of verse, Dyce, ed. 2 (Capell conj.).

[158] _daughters_] Qq. _daughter_ Ff.

_County_] _Count_ Rowe.

[159] _Anselme_] Qq F1 F2. _Anselm_ F3 F4. _Anselmo_ Dyce, ed. 2 (Capell conj.).

[160] _Livia_] _Livio_ Rowe (ed. 2). _gentle Livia_ Capell conj. _and Livia_ Dyce, ed. 2 (Courtenay conj.).

[161] _lively_] _lovely_ Rowe.

[162] [giving back the Note. Capell.

[163] _Up_] _To sup_ Staunton conj.

[164] _Whither?_ Serv. _To ... supper; to_] Theobald (Warburton). _Whether to supper?_ Ser: _To_ (Q1). _Whither to supper?_ Ser. _To_ Q2. _Whither to supper._ Ser.? _To_ Q3. _Whither to supper._ Ser. _To_ Q4. _Whither? to supper?_ Ser. _To_ Ff Q5.

[165] _To supper_] om. Capell.

[166] _crush_] _crash_ Hanmer.

[167] [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq.

[168] _Capulet's_] _Cupalets_ F2.

[169] _lovest_] F2 Q5 F3 F4. _loves_ (Q1) Q2 Q3 Q4 F1.

[170] _thee_] _the_ Q5.

[171] _fires_] Pope. _fire_ (Q1) Qq Ff.

[172] _these_] _those_ Hanmer.

[173] _love!_] F2 Q5 F3 F4. _love_, (Q1) Q2. _love?_ Q3 Q4. _love_: F1.

[174] _Tut_] Qq F1. _Tut Tut_ F2. _Tut, tut_ F2 F3 F4.

[175] _that_] _those_ Rowe.

_scales_] _scale_ S. Walker conj. (withdrawn).

[176] _lady's love_] _lady-love_ Theobald. _lady and love_ Keightley.

[177] _she shall scant show well_] (Q1) Qq. _she shew scant shell, well_, F1. _shele shew scant, well_, F2. _she'l shew scant well,_ F3 F4. _she will shew scant well,_ Rowe (ed. 2).

_seems_] _seemes_ (Q1) Q2. _shewes_ Q3 Q4 F1 F2 Q5. _shews_ F3 F4.

[178] _sight_] _light_ Anon. conj.

[179] [Exeunt.] Pope (ed. 2). om. Qq Ff.

[180] SCENE III.] Capell. SCENE II. Rowe. SCENE IV. Pope.

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

[181] Lady Capulet] Rowe. Capulets Wife. Qq Ff.

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

[183] _Now ... Juliet!_] As verse first by Johnson. Prose in Qq Ff. The Nurse's speeches are printed in italics in Qq.

[184] _year_] _yeeres_ Q5. _years_ F4.

[185] _bade her come_,] _bad her come_, Q1 Q2 Q3 Ff. _had her, come_, Q4. _had her: come,_ Q5.

[186] _How ... will?_] As in Qq Ff. Two lines, the first ending _here_, in Capell.

[187] _What is your will?_] om. Seymour conj.

[188] _This ... age._] As verse first by Capell. Prose in Qq Ff.

[189] _thou's_] _thou'se_ Qq Ff. _thous'_ Rowe. _thou shalt_ Pope.

_our_] _my_ F4.

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

[191] _I'll ... Lammas-tide?_] Arranged as in Steevens (1793). _I'll ... fourteen_ as prose, _How ... tide?_ as one line, in Qq. Four lines, ending _teeth, ... spoken, ... fourteen, Lammas-tide?_ in Ff. Three lines, ending _teeth, ... four, ... Lammas-tide?_ in Capell.

[192] _of my_] _o' my_ Capell.

[193] _teen_] _teeth_ F2 F3 F4.

[194] _She is_] Steevens (1793). _Shees_ or _Shee's_ or _She's_ Qq Ff.

_is it_] _is't_ Capell.

[195] _Even ... 'Ay.'_] As verse first by Capell. Prose in Qq Ff.

[196] _in_] _i'_ Capell.

[197] _shall_] _stal_ Q2.

[198] _That_] _then_ Q4 Q5.

[199] _of the year_] _in the year_ Q5 F3 F4.

[200] _with_] _wi'_ Capell.

[201] _eleven_] F2 Q5 F3 F4. _a leauen_ (Q1). _a leuen_ Q2 Q3 Q4. _a eleuen_ F1.

_years_] _yeare_ (Q1).

[202] _she could_] _could Iuliet_ (Q1).

_high-lone_] _high lone_ (Q1). _hylone_ Q2. _a lone_ Q3. _alone_ The rest.

_by the_] (Q1). _byth_ Q2. _bi'th_ Q3 Q4. _bi' th'_ F1 F2 F3. _byth'_ Q5 F1.

[203] _with_] om. Rowe (ed. 1).

[204] _Jule_] _Juliet_ (Q1) F4. _Julet_ F2 F3. _Julé_ Hanmer. _Juli'_ Capell.

[205] _an_] Pope. _and_ Qq F3 F4. & F1 F2. _if_ (Q1).

_should_] (Q1) F3 F4. _shall_ The rest.

[206] _Jule_] _Julet_ F1 F2 F3. _Juliet_ F4. _Julé_ Hanmer.

[207] La. Cap.] Rowe. Old La. Qq Ff.

[208] _Yes, ... 'Ay.'_] As verse first by Capell. Prose in Qq Ff.

[209] _upon_] _on_ Q5.

_it_] Qq F1 F2. _its_ F3 F4.

[210] _perilous_] _par'lous_ Capell.

[211] _Jule_] _Julet_ F2 F3. _Juliet_ F4. _Julé_, Hanmer. _Juli'_ Capell.

[212] _stint thou_] _stent thou_ F3. _stint thee_ F4.

_thee_,] _the_ F2.

[213] _Peace ... wish._] As verse first by Pope. Prose in Qq Ff.

[214] _to_] F2 Q5 F3 F4. _too_ Q2 Q3 Q4 F1.

[215] _wast_] _wert_ (Q1). _was_ F2.

[216] _An_] Pope. _and_ Qq Ff.

[217] _Marry, that 'marry'_] _And that same marriage_ Pope, from (Q1).

[218] _Juliet_] _Julet_ F2 F3.

[219] _disposition_] Ff. _dispositions_ Qq.

[220] _It is_] _'Tis_ F3 F4.

[221] _honour_] Pope, from (Q1). _houre_ Qq F1 F2. _hour_ F3 F4.

[222] _An ... teat._] As verse first by Pope. Prose in Qq Ff.

[223] _thine_] om. Q4 Q5.

[224] _I would say_] _I would say that_ F3 F4. _I'd say_ Pope.

_wisdom_] _thy wisdome_ Q4 Q5.

[225] _Verona_] _Varona_ F2.

[226] _mothers. By_] Ff. _mothers by_ Qq.

[227] _A man ... wax._] As verse first in Pope. Prose in Qq Ff.

[228] _world--_] F4. _world._ Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2 F3. _world_, (Q1) Q5.

[229] La. Cap. _What ... men._] Omitted by Pope, following (Q1).

[230] _Paris'_] _Paris's_ F4.

[231] _married_] Q2. _severall_ The rest.

[232] _sea_] _shell_ Rann (Mason conj.).

[233] _fair within_] _faire, within_ Q2.

[234] _many's_] _many_ Q5.

[235] _bigger: women_] Ff. _bigger women_ Qq.

[236] _endart_] _engage_ (Q1). _ingage_ Pope.

[237] _it_] (Q1) Q4 F2 Q5 F3 F4. om. Q2 Q3 F1.

Enter a Servingman.] Ff. Enter Serving. Qq. Enter Clowne. (Q1).

[238] _straight_] om. Pope.

[239] La. Cap. _We ... days._] Omitted by Pope.

[240] La. Cap.] Rowe. Mo. Qq Ff.

[Exit Servingman.] Exit. Ff, after line 105. om. Qq.

[241] SCENE IV.] Steevens. SCENE V. Pope. ACT II. SCENE I. Capell.

A street.] Capell. A street before Capulet's house. Theobald.

Mercutio,] Mercurio, Q4.

and] om. Qq Ff.

Torch-bearers.] Torchbearers, and drums. Theobald. Torch-bearers, and Drummers. Hanmer. Torchbearers, and others. Steevens.

[242] Rom.] Ben. Capell conj.

[243] Ben.] Mer. Capell conj.

[244] _crow-keeper_] _cow-keeper_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald conj. withdrawn).

[245] _Nor no ... entrance_:] Inserted by Pope from (Q1). Omitted in Qq Ff.

[246] _Nor no_] (Q1). _Nor a_ Pope.

[247] _for_] _'fore_ Hanmer.

_entrance_] (Q1). _enterance_ Pope.

[248] _Being ... light._] Omitted by Pope.

[249] Mer.] Ben. Capell conj.

[250] _soul_] _soule_ Qq. _soale_ F1. _sole_ F2 F3 F4.

[251] Mer. _You ... love down._] Omitted by (Q1) Pope.

[252] _enpierced_] _enpearced_ Qq F1. _impearced_ F2 F3. _impierced_ F4. _empierced_ S. Walker conj.

[253] _so bound_,] Q2 Q3 Q4. _to bound_: F1 F4. _to bond_: F2 F3. _so bound._ Q5.

[254] _burthen_] _birthen_ Q2.

[255] Mer.] Q5. Mercu. Q4. Horatio. Q Q3. Hora. Ff.

_should you_] _you should_ Capell conj.

_love_;] _love?_ Steevens, 1773 (Heath conj.).

[256] _and_] om. F3 F4.

[257] _beat love_] _love beat_ Rowe.

[258] _Give ..._] Mer. _Give ..._ (Q1) Pope.

_in_:] _in?_ [Pulling off his Mask. Theobald. _in?_ [Putting on his Mask. Johnson. _in._ [taking one from an Att. Capell.

[259] _visor!_] _visor!_ [throwing it away. Capell.

[260] _quote_] _coate_ (Q1). _cote_ Q2.

[261] Ben. _Come ... legs._] Omitted by (Q1) Pope.

[262] _betake_] _betakes_ Q3.

[263] _candle-holder_] _candle lighter_ Rowe.

[264] _The game ... ask?_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[265] _done_] (Q1) F1 F2 F3. _dum_ Q2. _dun_ Q3 Q4 Q5 F4.

[266] _mire_] _mire._ Ff.

[267] _Of this sir-reverence love_] Singer, from (Q1). _Or save you reverence love_ Qq. _Or save your reverence love_ F1 F2 F3. _Or, save your reverence, love_ F4. _O! save your reverence, love_ Johnson conj. _Of this (save reverence) love_ Malone and Rann. _Of this (sir-reverence) love_ Dyce (ed. 1).

_stick'st_] Capell. _stickst_ (Q1). _stickest_ The rest.

[268] _the_] _thine_ Theobald.

[269] _Nay_] om. Q4 Q5.

_sir, in delay_] _sir in delay_ Q2 Q3. _sir in delay_, (Q1) Q4 Q5. _sir I delay,_ F1. _sir I, delay_, F2. _sir I, delay._ F3. _sir, I delay._ F4. _sir, we delay._ Rowe.

[270] _We ... day_] Capell. _We burne our lights by night, like Lampes by day_ (Q1). _We waste our lights in vaine, lights lights by day_ Qq (_wast_ Q3). _We wast our lights in vaine, lights, lights, by day_ Ff. _We burn our lights by light, and lamps by day_ Theobald. _We waste our lights in vain, like lights by day_ Johnson. _We waste our lights in vain, light lights by day_ Nicholson conj.

[271] _sits_] _fits_ Rowe. _hits_ Collier MS.

[272] _our five_] Malone (Wilbraham conj.). _our fine_ Qq Ff.

[273] After this line Keightley inserts from (Q1), Ben. _Queen Mab! what's she?_

[274] _fairies'_] Steevens. _fairies_ (Q1). _Fairies_ Q2 Q3 Q5 Ff (_Fayries_ F3). _Fairis_ Q4. _Fancy's_ Theobald (Warburton). _fairy_ Warton conj.

[275] _She is ... bodes_:] As verse by Pope, following (Q1). Prose in Qq Ff.

[276] _In shape no_] _In shade; no_ Warburton conj.

_an_] om. F1 F2.

[277] _atomies_] Q3 Q4 Ff Q5. _Atomi_ (Q1). _ottamie_ Q2.

[278] _Athwart_] (Q1) Pope. _over_ Qq Ff.

[279] _made of long_] _are made of_ (Q1) Seymour conj.

[280] _Her traces_] Qq F1. _her trace_ F3 F4. _The traces_ (Q1) Pope.

_spider's_] _spider_ Q2 Q3 Q4.

[281] _Her collar_] _The collars_ (Q1) Pope.

_collars_] _coullers_ F1.

[282] _film_] _filme_ F2 F3 F4. _Philome_ Qq F1. _filmes_ (Q1).

[283] _waggoner_,] _waggoner's_ Seymour conj.

[284] _Prick'd_] _Pickt_ (Q1). _Pick'd_ Collier MS.

_lazy finger_] _Lazie-finger_ F1. _Lazy finger_ F2 F3.

_maid_] (Q1) Pope. _man_ Qq F1. _woman_ F2 F3 F4. _milkmaid_ Collier MS.

[285] _Her ... coachmakers_] Transferred to follow line 58, Lettsom conj.

[286] _o' mind_] Capell. _amind_ Q2. _a mind_ Q3 Q4 F1 F2. _of mind_ Q5 F3 F4.

[287] _O'er_] Hanmer. _O're_ (Q1). _On_ Qq Ff.

_O'er ... straight_;] om. Seymour conj.

_courtiers_'] _Countries_ F2 F3 F4. _counties_' Tyrwhitt conj.

_court'sies_] _cursies_ Qq Ff.

[288] _dream_] _dreamt_ F1.

[289] _on_] _one_ Q2.

[290] _breaths_] Rowe. _breathes_ (Q1). _breath_ Qq Ff.

[291] _Sometime_] _sometimes_ Q5.

_courtier's_] _lawyer's_ Pope, from (Q1). _taylor's_ Theobald conj. _counsellor's_ Collier MS.

_courtier's nose_] _lawyer's lip_ Seymour conj.

[292] _dreams_] _dreame_ Q3.

[293] _sometime_] _sometimes_ Rowe.

[294] _a_] om. F1.

[295] _a parson's nose_] _a parson_ Pope (ed. 1). _the parson_ Pope (ed. 2).

_parson's_] _Persons_ Q2.

_a'_] Capell. _a_ Qq F1. _he_ F2 F3 F4.

[296] _he dreams_] _dreams he_ (Q1) Pope.

[297] _Of healths_] _Of delves_ Thirlby conj. _Trenches_ Keightley conj.

[298] _ear_] _eare_ (Q1)Qq. _eares_ F1 F2 F3. _ears_ F4.

[299] _bakes_] _cakes_ Pope. _makes_ Collier MS.

_elf-locks_] _Elklocks_ Q2 Q3 F1.

[300] _untangled_] _entangled_ F3. _intangled_ F4.

_misfortune_] _misfortunes_ Rowe.

[301] _This_] _This, this_ Hanmer. _And this_ Capell.

_she--_] F2 F3 F4. _she._ Q2 Q3 F1. _shee._ Q4 Q5. _she that ..._ Keightley.

[302] _inconstant_] _unconstant_ Q5 F3 F4.

[303] _his face_] (Q1) Pope. _his side_ Qq Ff. _his tide_ Collier MS. _aside_ Anon. conj.

[304] _yet_] _is_ (Q1). _still_ Rowe.

[305] _breast_] _breath_ Collier MS.

[306] _steerage_] (Q1) Q5 F4. _stirrage_ The rest.

[307] _course ... sail_] _fate ... course_ Capell conj.

[308] _sail_] (Q1) Steevens. _sute_ Qq Ff. _fate_ Anon. conj.

[309] [Exeunt.] Drum. Exeunt. Capell. They march about the Stage, and Exeunt. Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[310] SCENE V.] Steevens. SCENE VI. Hanmer. Pope continues the scene.