ACT I.
Scene I. Verona. A public place.[6]
Enter Sampson and Gregory, of the house of Capulet, with swords and bucklers.
therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.[11] 10
will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.[13]
goes to the wall.
vessels, are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push[16]
Montague's men from the wall and thrust his maids to
[Pg 5] the wall.
men. 20
have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the maids;[18]
I will cut off their heads.[19]
take it in what sense thou wilt.
Enter Abraham and Balthasar.
thee.
they list. 40
them; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.[28]
[Pg 6]
I bite my thumb, sir.
a man as you.
Enter Benvolio.
my master's kinsmen.
swashing blow.[36] [They fight.
Enter Tybalt.
Enter several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens and Peace-officers, with clubs.
Enter old Capulet in his gown, and Lady Capulet.
Enter old Montague and Lady Montague.
Enter Prince Escalus, with his train.
Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,—[49] 80
Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,
[Pg 8] 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.
Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?
And yours close fighting ere I did approach: 105
I drew to part them: in the instant came
[Pg 9] 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]
Right glad I am he was not at this fray.[65] 115
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]
With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew,[73] 130
[Pg 10] 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
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.
I'll know his grievance, or be much denied. 155
To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away.[83]
[Exeunt Montague and Lady.
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!
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?
Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast;[93]
[Pg 12] 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.
This is not Romeo, he's some other where.
Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill![106]
In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.
[Pg 13]
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]
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.
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
[Pg 14] 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
Scene II. A street.[124]
Enter Capulet, Paris, and Servant.[125]
In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think,[127][128]
For men so old as we to keep the peace.[129]
And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long. 5
But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?
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.
The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she,[132]
She is the hopeful lady of my earth:[133] 15
[Pg 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]
[Pg 16]
[Exeunt Capulet and Paris.
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.
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
Shut up in prison, kept without my food, 55
Whipt and tormented and—God-den, good fellow.[152]
I pray, can you read any thing you see?[154] 60
[Pg 17]
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
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.
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]
[Pg 18]
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.
Scene III. A room in Capulet's house.[180]
Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse.[181]
Enter Juliet.
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]
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]
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]
[Pg 20] '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]
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]
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]
I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,[218] 65
How stands your disposition to be married?[219]
I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat.[222][224]
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
[Pg 22]
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
Enter a Servingman.
you called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in
the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must hence to
[Pg 23] wait; I beseech you, follow straight.
[Exeunt.
Scene IV. A street.
Enter Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, with five or six other Maskers, and Torch-bearers.[241]
Or shall we on without apology?
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
Being but heavy, I will bear the light.[248]
With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead[250] 15
So stakes me to the ground, I cannot move.
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]
Too great oppression for a tender thing.[251]
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.[251][256]
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.
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]
[Pg 25]
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]
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]
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes[275]
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone[274][276] 55
[Pg 26] 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]
[Pg 27] 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—
Thou talk'st of nothing.
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,
[Pg 28] And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.[303]
Supper is done, and we shall come too late. 105
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]
Scene V. A hall in Capulet's house.[310]
Musicians waiting. Enter Servingmen, with napkins.[311]
away? he shift a trencher! he scrape a trencher![313]
two men's hands, and they unwashed too, 'tis a foul thing.[315]
[Pg 29]
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]
[They retire behind.
Enter Capulet, with Juliet and others of his house, meeting the Guests and Maskers.
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:
[Pg 30] 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.
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]
'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
His son is thirty.[338]
Of yonder knight? 40
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night[342]
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;[343]
[Pg 31] 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]
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]
A villain, that is hither come in spite, 60
To scorn at our solemnity this night.
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.
[Pg 32]
I'll not endure him.
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]
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!
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
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.
[Pg 33]
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,[367]
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
[Kissing her.
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.
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
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.[387]
The only son of your great enemy.[388] 135
Too early seen unknown, and known too late![389]
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.
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.
[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.
[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. Act ii. Scene ii. Capell.
A hall ...] Theobald. Musicians waiting.] Capell.
[311] Enter ...] They march about the Stage, and Servingmen come forth with Napkins. Enter Romeo. Qq. They march ... their napkins. Enter Servant. Ff.
[312] First Serv.] 1 Ser. Rowe. Ser. Qq Ff.
[313] Where's ... trencher!] Prose in Pope. Two lines in Qq Ff.
[314] Sec. Serv.] 2 Ser. Rowe. 1. Qq Ff.
[315] When ... thing.] Two lines in Q2. Prose in the rest.
[316] lie] ye Rowe (ed. 1).
all] Qq. om. Ff.
[317] joint-stools] Rowe. ioynstooles Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2. join-stooles Q5. joynstooles F3. joyn-stools F4.
[318] court-cupboard] Q5 F4. court-cubbert Q2 Q3 Q4. court-cubbord F1 F2 F3.
[319] lovest] Ff. loves Qq.
[320] Nell.] Theobald. Nell, Qq Ff.
Antony] Authonie F2.
Antony, and Potpan!] Antony! Potpan! Capell. Antony Potpan! Dyce (ed. 2).
[321] Sec. Serv.] 2 Ser. Rowe. 2. Qq Ff. 3. S. Capell (corrected in MS.).
[322] and] om. F3 F4.
[323] Third Serv.] 3. Qq. 1. Ff. 2 Ser. Rowe.
[324] We ... all.] Prose in Pope. Two lines in Qq Ff.
[325] [They retire behind.] Malone. Exeunt. Qq Ff. om. Capell.
Enter ...] Enter all the guests and gentlewomen to the Maskers. Qq Ff.
[326] Scene VI. Pope. Scene VII. Hanmer.
Welcome, gentlemen] Gentlemen, welcome Hanmer. You're welcome, gentlemen Lettsom conj.
Welcome ... toes] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.
their toes] your feet Pope.
[327] will have a bout] Capell. will have about (Q1). will walke about Qq Ff. we'll have a bout Pope.
[328] Ah ha, my] (Q1) Capell. Ah my Qq F1. Ah me, F2 F3 F4. Ah me, my Rowe.
[329] She,] om. Pope. Transferred to the end of line 17 by Steevens.
[330] Welcome] You're welcome Lettsom conj.
gentlemen] all gentlemen Pope. you too, gentlemen Capell.
[Enter other guests. Nicholson conj.
I have] I've Pope.
[331] You are ... girls] Omitted by Pope.
[332] gentlemen! Come,] gentlemen come, Q2.
[Enter more guests. Nicholson conj.
[333] A hall, a hall!] A ball, a ball. Johnson.
a hall] hall F2 F3 F4.
[Music ...] Qq Ff (after line 23). Musick. Dance forming. Capell (after line 23).
[334] you] ye F2 F3 F4.
[335] mask] make Q5.
By'r lady] F4. Berlady The rest.
[336] Cap.] Capell. I. Capu. Qq. Ff.
[337] Lucentio,] (Q1) F1 F3 F4. Lucientio: Q2 Q5. Lucientio, Q3 Q4. Lucentio. F2.
[338] Cap.] 1 Capu. Qq. 3 Cap. Ff.
[339] two] 2. Q2. three (Q1).
[Juliet is taken out. Capell. After this line Keightley inserts from (Q1), Good youths, i' faith! Oh, youth's a jolly thing!
[340] [To a Servingman.] to a Servant. Capell. om. Qq Ff.
lady's] ladies Q2. ladie is Q3 Q4 F1. lady is F2 Q5 F3 F4.
[341] [Company dance. Capell.
[342] It seems she] (Q1) Qq F1. Her beauty F2 F3 F4.
[343] Like] (Q1) F2 F3 F4. As Qq F1.
[344] snowy] snowe Q4.
[345] blessed] happy (Q1) Pope.
[346] For I ne'er] For I nere Qq (ne're Q5). For I never Ff. I never (Q1) Pope.
[347] What dares] what? dares Q5.
[348] hither] hether Q3 Q4.
antic] antick Rowe. antique Qq Ff.
[349] it] in F2.
[350] Why ... so?] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.
[351] Romeo is it?] Ff. Romeo is it. Q2 Q3 Q4. Romeo, is it? Q5. Romeo, is't? Pope.
'Tis he] om. Pope.
villain] villian F2.
[352] He] (Q1) Rowe. A Qq Ff.
[353] this] Qq. the Ff.
[354] for] of Rowe.
[355] What ... know what:] Put in the margin by Pope.
[356] Am ... go to] Go to. Am ... you? Collier MS.
[357] my guests!] Theobald. my guests: Qq. the guests: Ff.
[358] set] set a Q4 Q5.
[359] is't] 'tis F2 F3 F4.
[360] You ... go:] Omitted by Pope.
[361] or—More ... shame!] or—More ... light.—For shame! Knight. or (more ... shame) Q5. or more ... light for shame, Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff. or more light, for shame, F2 F3 F4. or more light, for shame; Rowe.
[362] Now seeming] Now-seeming Lettsom conj.
bitterest] bittrest Q2. bitter The rest.
[Exit.] om. F2 F3 F4.
[Dance ends. Juliet retires to her Seat. Capell.
[363] [To Juliet] Rowe. drawing up to her, and taking her Hand. Capell.
unworthiest] unworthy (Q1) Pope.
[364] fine] Theobald (Warburton). sin Q2 Q3 Ff. Sinne (Q1) Q4 Q5.
is this] be this Hammer.
[365] two] to F1.
ready] (Q1) F2 Q5 F3 F4. did ready Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 (readie Q2).
[366] Good ... much,] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[367] hands that] Q5. hands, that Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2. hands, the F3 F4. hands—the Rowe.
hands do] hand, doe F2. hand, do F3 F4.
[368] Saints ... book.] Put in the margin by Pope.
[369] Saints ... sake.] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
though] yet Pope.
[370] prayer's effect I take] Capell. prayers effect I take (Q1) Qq F1. prayers effect doe take F2 F3 F4.
[371] thine] yours (Q1) Capell.
[Kissing her.] Rowe.
[372] that they have] that late they Pope.
[373] sin] kiss Capell.
[Kissing her again. Capell.
by the] (Q1). bith Qq. by' th' F1 F2. by th' F3 F4.
[374] [To her Nurse. Pope.
[375] talk'd] talkt (Q1) Qq F1. talke F2. talk F3 F4.
[376] chinks] chincke Rowe (ed 2). chink Pope.
Capulet] Mountague (Q1). Catulet Q3.
[377] debt] thrall (Q1). See note (II).
[378] [Going. Collier, ed. 2 (Collier MS.).
[379] [Maskers excuse themselves with a Bow. Capell.
[380] on then,] on, then, Dyce. on, then Qq Ff.
[381] [to his Cousin. Capell.
[382] [Exeunt ... Nurse.] Malone. Exeunt. F2 F3 F4. om. Qq F1. Company retire. Capell.
[383] Come ... gentleman?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
yond] yond' F4. yon Pope.
[384] of] of the Q4 Q5.
[385] Marry ... be] That as I think is (Q1) Pope.
be] to be F3 F4.
[386] there] (Q1) Capell. here Qq Ff.
[387] wedding] wedded F1.
[388] your] our F2 F3 F4.
[389] unknown] unknow F2.
[390] [Going and returning. Collier (ed. 2).
[392] all are] are all Q4.
