ACT V.
Scene I. Mantua. A street.[1393]
Enter Romeo.
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.
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.
[Pg 118]
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]
Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper,[1405] 25
And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night.
Your looks are pale and wild, and do import
Some misadventure.
Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do. 30
Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?
And hire those horses; I'll be with thee straight.
[Exit Balthasar.
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]
[Pg 119] 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.
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
Is death to any he that utters them.
And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks,[1418]
Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes,[1419] 70
[Pg 120] 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.
And drink it off; and, if you had the strength
Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,[1423]
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:[1424]
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none.
Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh.[1425]
Come, cordial and not poison, go with me 85
To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee. [Exeunt.
Scene II. Friar Laurence's cell.[1426]
Enter Friar John.[1427]
Enter Friar Laurence.
Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo?
[Pg 121] Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.[1429]
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]
Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, 15
So fearful were they of infection.
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.
Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake:[1436] 25
She will beshrew me much that Romeo
Hath had no notice of these accidents;
But I will write again to Mantua,
And keep her at my cell till Romeo come:
Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb! [Exit.30
Scene III. A churchyard; in it a monument belonging to the Capulets.[1437]
Enter Paris and his Page, bearing flowers and a torch.[1438]
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.
Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure.[1444] [Retires.
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.
Enter Romeo and Balthasar, with a torch, mattock, &c.[1453]
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.
that:
Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.[1458]
[Pg 124]
[Opens the tomb.
[Comes forward.
Can vengeance be pursued further than death? 55
Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee:[1468]
Obey, and go with me; for thou must die.
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]
[They fight.
[Exit.
Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.[1478] [Dies.
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.
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]
[Pg 126] 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]
Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there?[1498]
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]
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]
O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing.[1506]
I dreamt my master and another fought,[1507]
And That my master slew him.[1507]
[Pg 128]
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.
I do remember well where I should be,
And there I am: where is my Romeo?[1514] [Noise within.150
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]
[Exit Fri. L.
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:
O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop[1520]
[Pg 129] 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.
[Snatching Romeo's dagger.
[Falls on Romeo's body, and dies.[1524]
Enter Watch, with the Page of Paris.[1525]
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
[Pg 130] 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.
Re-enter Friar Laurence, and another Watchman.
We took this mattock and this spade from him,
As he was coming from this churchyard's side.[1537] 185
Enter the Prince and Attendants.
Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, and others.[1541]
Some Juliet, and some Paris, and all run
With open outcry toward our monument.[1545]
And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before, 195
Warm and new kill'd.
With instruments upon them fit to open
These dead men's tombs.[1550] 200
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]
That warns my old age to a sepulchre.
Enter Montague and others.[1554]
To see thy son and heir more early down.[1555]
[Pg 132]
Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:[1556] 210
What further woe conspires against mine age?[1557]
To press before thy father to a grave?
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.
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.
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,
[Pg 133] 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]
[Pg 134] Unto the rigour of severest law.
Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this?[1579] 270
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]
Where is the county's page, that raised the watch?
Sirrah, what made your master in this place?
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.
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]
This is my daughter's jointure, for no more
Can I demand.
For I will raise her statue in pure gold;
That whiles Verona by that name is known,[1587]
[Pg 135] There shall no figure at such rate be set[1588] 300
As that of true and faithful Juliet.[1589]
Poor sacrifices of our enmity!
FOOTNOTES:
[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.
[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.
