ACT III.
Scene I. A public place.[730]
Enter Mercutio, Benvolio, Page, and Servants.[731]
The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,[732]
And, if we meet, we shall not 'scape a brawl;[733][734]
For now these hot days is the mad blood stirring.[734]
enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword upon the
table, and says 'God send me no need of thee!' and by the
operation of the second cup draws it on the drawer, when[736]
indeed there is no need.
as any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody and as
soon moody to be moved.
none shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou! why, thou
wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or a hair
less, in his beard than thou hast: thou wilt quarrel with a
man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because
[Pg 65] thou hast hazel eyes; what eye, but such an eye, would spy 20
out such a quarrel? thy head is as full of quarrels as an
egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as
addle as an egg for quarrelling: thou hast quarrelled with
a man for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened
thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun: didst thou not 25
fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before
Easter? with another, for tying his new shoes with old
riband? and yet thou wilt tutor me from quarrelling![739]
should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a 30
quarter.
Enter Tybalt and others.
Gentlemen, good den: a word with one of you.
something; make it a word and a blow.
thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords:
[Pg 66] here's my fiddlestick; here's that shall make you 45
dance. 'Zounds, consort![748]
Either withdraw unto some private place,
Or reason coldly of your grievances,[749]
Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us. 50
I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I.
Enter Romeo.
Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower;[750] 55
Your worship in that sense may call him man.
No better term than this,—thou art a villain.
Doth much excuse the appertaining rage[753] 60
To such a greeting: villain am I none;[754]
Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not.[755]
That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw.
But love thee better than thou canst devise[758]
Till thou shalt know the reason of my love:
And so, good Capulet,—which name I tender
As dearly as mine own,—be satisfied.[759]
Alla stoccata carries it away.[761] [Draws.
Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?[762]
[Pg 67]
lives, that I mean to make bold withal, and, as you shall 75
use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the eight. Will you[764]
pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears? make[765]
haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out.
[Tybalt under Romeo's arm stabs Mercutio and flies with his followers.
[Exit Page.
church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow,
and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered,
I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your[777] 95
houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a[778]
man to death! a braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by
the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between[779]
us? I was hurt under your arm.
[Exeunt Mercutio and Benvolio.[784]
My very friend, hath got this mortal hurt[786]
In my behalf; my reputation stain'd[787]
With Tybalt's slander,—Tybalt, that an hour
Hath been my kinsman: O sweet Juliet,[788]
Thy beauty hath made me effeminate, 110
And in my temper soften'd valour's steel![789]
Re-enter Benvolio.
That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.
Re-enter Tybalt.
Away to heaven, respective lenity,
And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now![795] 120
Now, Tybalt, take the 'villain' back again
That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul
Is but a little way above our heads,
Staying for thine to keep him company:
Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.[796] 125
Shalt with him hence.
[They fight; Tybalt falls.
The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain:
Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee death 130
If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away!
[Exit Romeo.
Enter Citizens, &c.
Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he?[798][799]
Enter Prince, attended; Montague, Capulet, their Wives, and others.
The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl:
There lies the man, slain by young Romeo, 140
That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio.[804]
O prince! O cousin! husband! O, the blood is spilt[806]
Of my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true,
For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague. 145
O cousin, cousin![807]
Romeo that spoke him fair, bid him bethink[809]
How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal 150
Your high displeasure: all this uttered
[Pg 71] With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow'd,[810]
Could not take truce with the unruly spleen[811]
Of Tybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts[812]
With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast; 155
Who, all as hot, turns deadly point to point,
And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats
Cold death aside, and with the other sends
It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity
Retorts it: Romeo he cries aloud,[813] 160
'Hold, friends! friends, part!' and, swifter than his tongue,
His agile arm beats down their fatal points,[814]
And 'twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm
An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life
Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled: 165
But by and by comes back to Romeo,
Who had but newly entertain'd revenge,[815]
And to't they go like lightning: for, ere I[816]
Could draw to part them, was stout Tybalt slain;
And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly;[817] 170
This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.
Affection makes him false, he speaks not true:
Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,
And all those twenty could but kill one life. 175
I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give;
Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live.
Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?[819]
His fault concludes but what the law should end,
The life of Tybalt.
[Pg 72]
Immediately we do exile him hence:
I have an interest in your hate's proceeding,[821]
My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding; 185
But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine,
That you shall all repent the loss of mine:
I will be deaf to pleading and excuses;[822]
Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses:[823]
Therefore use none: let Romeo hence in haste, 190
Else, when he's found, that hour is his last.[824]
Bear hence this body, and attend our will:
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. [Exeunt.[825]
Scene II. Capulet's orchard.[826]
Enter Juliet.[827]
Towards Phœbus' lodging: such a waggoner[828]
As Phaethon would whip you to the west,[829]
And bring in cloudy night immediately.
Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, 5
That runaway's eyes may wink, and Romeo[830]
Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen.[831]
[Pg 73] Lovers can see to do their amorous rites[832]
By their own beauties; or, if love be blind,[833]
It best agrees with night. Come, civil night, 10
Thou sober-suited matron, all in black,[834]
And learn me how to lose a winning match,
Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:[835]
Hood my unmann'd blood bating in my cheeks[836]
With thy black mantle, till strange love grown bold[837] 15
Think true love acted simple modesty.[838]
Come, night, come, Romeo, come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.[839]
Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night, 20
Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,[840]
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night[841]
And pay no worship to the garish sun. 25
O, I have bought the mansion of a love,
But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold,
Not yet enjoy'd; so tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes 30
And may not wear them. O, here comes my nurse,
[Pg 74] And she brings news, and every tongue that speaks
But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence.
Enter Nurse, with cords.[842]
[Throws them down.
We are undone, lady, we are undone.
Alack the day! he's gone, he's kill'd, he's dead.[848]
Though heaven cannot. O Romeo, Romeo!
Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!
This torture should be roar'd in dismal hell.
Hath Romeo slain himself? say thou but 'I,'[850] 45
And that bare vowel 'I' shall poison more[850]
Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice:[851]
I am not I, if there be such an I,[852][853][854][855]
Or those eyes shut, that make thee answer 'I.'[852][853][855][856]
If he be slain, say 'I;' or if not, no:[852][855] 50
Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe.[852][857]
[Pg 75]
God save the mark!—here on his manly breast:
A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse;
Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood,[858] 55
All in gore blood: I swounded at the sight.[859]
To prison, eyes, ne'er look on liberty!
Vile earth, to earth resign, end motion here,[861]
And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier![862] 60
O courteous Tybalt! honest gentleman![863]
That ever I should live to see thee dead!
Is Romeo slaughter'd, and is Tybalt dead? 65
My dear-loved cousin, and my dearer lord?[865]
Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom![866]
For who is living, if those two are gone?
Romeo that kill'd him, he is banished. 70
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?[870]
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! 75
[Pg 76] Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb![871][872]
Despised substance of divinest show![872][873][874]
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,[872][873]
A damned saint, an honourable villain![872][873][875]
O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell, 80
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend[876]
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!
No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,[877]
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.[877][878]
Ah, where's my man? give me some aqua vitæ:
These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.
Shame come to Romeo!
For such a wish! he was not born to shame:
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;
For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd
Sole monarch of the universal earth.
O, what a beast was I to chide at him![880] 95
Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,
[Pg 77] When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?
But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? 100
That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband:
Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring;
Your tributary drops belong to woe,
Which you mistaking offer up to joy.[882]
My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain; 105
And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband:[883]
All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?
Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death,[884]
That murder'd me: I would forget it fain;[885]
But, O, it presses to my memory, 110
Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds:
'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo banished;'
That 'banished,' that one word 'banished,'
Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death
Was woe enough, if it had ended there: 115
Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship
And needly will be rank'd with other griefs,[886]
Why follow'd not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,'[887]
Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both,
Which modern lamentation might have moved?[888] 120
But with a rear-ward following Tybalt's death,[889]
'Romeo is banished:' to speak that word,[890]
Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,
All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished.'
There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, 125
In that word's death; no words can that woe sound.
Where is my father, and my mother, nurse?
[Pg 78]
Will you go to them? I will bring you thither.
When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment.
Take up those cords: poor ropes, you are beguiled,[893][894]
Both you and I; for Romeo is exiled:[893][895]
He made you for a highway to my bed;[893][896]
But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed.[893][897] 135
Come, cords; come, nurse; I'll to my wedding-bed;[893][898]
And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead![893]
To comfort you: I wot well where he is.
Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night:[899] 140
I'll to him; he is hid at Laurence' cell.
And bid him come to take his last farewell.[900] [Exeunt.
Scene III. Friar Laurence's cell.[901]
Enter Friar Laurence.[902]
Enter Romeo.[905]
What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,[907] 5
That I yet know not?
Is my dear son with such sour company:[908]
I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.
Not body's death, but body's banishment.
For exile hath more terror in his look,
Much more than death: do not say 'banishment.'[911]
Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
But purgatory, torture, hell itself.[914]
Hence banished is banish'd from the world,[915]
And world's exile is death: then 'banished'[916][917][918] 20
Is death mis-term'd: calling death 'banished,'[917][919]
Thou cut'st my head off with a golden axe
And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.[920]
Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind prince, 25
Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law,[921]
And turn'd that black word death to banishment:
[Pg 80] This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.[922]
Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog 30
And little mouse, every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her,[923]
But Romeo may not: more validity,
More honourable state, more courtship lives
In carrion-flies than Romeo: they may seize 35
On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand,
And steal immortal blessing from her lips;[924]
Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,[925][926]
Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin;[926][927]
But Romeo may not; he is banished:[926][928] 40
This may flies do, but I from this must fly:[926][928]
They are free men, but I am banished:[926][928]
And say'st thou yet, that exile is not death?[926][928]
Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife,[926][929]
No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,[926] 45
But 'banished' to kill me?—'Banished'?[926]
O friar, the damned use that word in hell;
Howling attends it: how hast thou the heart,[930]
Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd,[931] 50
To mangle me with that word 'banished'?[932]
[Pg 81]
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, 55
To comfort thee, though thou art banished.
Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom,
It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more.[935] 60
Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,[940] 65
An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,[941]
Doting like me, and like me banished,
Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,[942]
And fall upon the ground, as I do now,
Taking the measure of an unmade grave.[943] [Knocking within.70
Mist-like infold me from the search of eyes.[945][947] [Knocking.
Thou wilt be taken.—Stay awhile!—Stand up;[949] [Knocking.75
[Pg 82] Run to my study.—By and by! God's will,
What simpleness is this!—I come, I come![950] [Knocking.
Who knocks so hard? whence come you? what's your will?[951]
I come from Lady Juliet.
Enter Nurse.
Where is my lady's lord, where's Romeo?[954]
Just in her case!
Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering.
Stand up, stand up; stand, an you be a man:[959][960]
For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand;[959]
Why should you fall into so deep an O?[961] 90
[Pg 83]
Doth she not think me an old murderer,[964]
Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy[965] 95
With blood removed but little from her own?
Where is she? and how doth she? and what says[966]
My conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love?[967]
And now falls on her bed; and then starts up, 100
And Tybalt calls; and then on Romeo cries,[968]
And then down falls again.
Shot from the deadly level of a gun,[969][970]
Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand
Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me,[971] 105
In what vile part of this anatomy[972]
Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack
The hateful mansion.[973] [Drawing his sword.
Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote[974] 110
The unreasonable fury of a beast:
Unseemly woman in a seeming man![975]
Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both![975][976]
[Pg 84] Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order,
I thought thy disposition better temper'd. 115
Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself?
And slay thy lady that in thy life lives,[977]
By doing damned hate upon thyself?[978]
Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven and earth?[978][979]
Since birth and heaven and earth, all three do meet[978][980] 120
In thee at once, which thou at once wouldst lose.[978][120][981]
Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit;[978]
Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all,[978][982]
And usest none in that true use indeed[978]
Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit:[978] 125
Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,[978]
Digressing from the valour of a man;[978][983]
Thy dear love sworn, but hollow perjury,[978]
Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish;[978]
Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,[978] 130
Mis-shapen in the conduct of them both,[978]
Like powder in a skilless soldier's flask,[978][984]
Is set a-fire by thine own ignorance,[978][985]
And thou dismember'd with thine own defence.[978]
What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive, 135
For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead;
There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee,
But thou slew'st Tybalt; there art thou happy too:[986]
The law, that threaten'd death, becomes thy friend,[987]
And turns it to exile; there art thou happy:[988] 140
A pack of blessings lights upon thy back;[989]
[Pg 85] Happiness courts thee in her best array;
But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,[990]
Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love:[991]
Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. 145
Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,
Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her:
But look thou stay not till the watch be set,
For then thou canst not pass to Mantua;
Where thou shalt live till we can find a time 150
To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
Beg pardon of the prince and call thee back[992]
With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.
Go before, nurse: commend me to thy lady, 155
And bid her hasten all the house to bed,
Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto:
Romeo is coming.
To hear good counsel: O, what learning is![994] 160
My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come.
Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late.[996] [Exit.
Either be gone before the watch be set,[997]
[Pg 86] Or by the break of day disguised from hence:[997][999]
Sojourn in Mantua; I'll find out your man,
And he shall signify from time to time 170
Every good hap to you that chances here:
Give me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good night.
It were a grief, so brief to part with thee:
Farewell.[1000] [Exeunt. 175
Scene IV. A room in Capulet's house.[1001]
Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, and Paris.[1002]
That we have had no time to move our daughter.[1003]
Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,
And so did I. Well, we were born to die.
'Tis very late; she'll not come down to-night: 5
I promise you, but for your company,[1004]
I would have been a-bed an hour ago.[1004][1005]
Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter.
To-night she's mew'd up to her heaviness.[1007][1008]
Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled[1010]
In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not.[1011]
[Pg 87] Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed; 15
Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love;[1012]
And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next—[1013][1014]
But, soft! what day is this?
O' Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her,[1015][1016] 20
She shall be married to this noble earl.[1015]
Will you be ready? do you like this haste?[1015]
We'll keep no great ado; a friend or two;[1017]
For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,
It may be thought we held him carelessly, 25
Being our kinsman, if we revel much:
Therefore we'll have some half-a-dozen friends,
And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?[1018]
Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,[1021]
Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day.
Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho!
Afore me, it is so very very late,[1022]
That we may call it early by and by:[1022][1023] 35
Good night.[1024] [Exeunt.
Scene V. Capulet's orchard.[1025]
Enter Romeo and Juliet, above, at the window.[1026]
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;
Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate-tree:[1028]
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. 5
No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day[1030]
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops:[1031] 10
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
It is some meteor that the sun exhales,[1033]
To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,
And light thee on thy way to Mantua: 15
Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone.[1034]
I am content, so thou wilt have it so.[1035]
I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,[1035][1036]
[Pg 89] 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;[1035][1037] 20
Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat[1035][1038]
The vaulty heaven so high above our heads:[1035][1039]
I have more care to stay than will to go:[1035][1040]
Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.
How is't, my soul? let's talk: it is not day.[1041] 25
It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
Some say the lark makes sweet division;
This doth not so, for she divideth us: 30
Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes;[1042]
O, now I would they had changed voices too![1043]
Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,[1044]
Hunting thee hence with hunts-up to the day.[1044][1045]
O, now be gone; more light and light it grows.[1046] 35
Enter Nurse, to the chamber.[1048]
The day is broke; be wary, look about.[1050] [Exit. 40
[Descends.[1053]
I must hear from thee every day in the hour,[1055]
For in a minute there are many days: 45
O, by this count I shall be much in years
Ere I again behold my Romeo!
I will omit no opportunity[1056]
That may convey my greetings, love, to thee. 50
For sweet discourses in our time to come.[1058]
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,[1060] 55
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:[1061]
Either my eyesight fails or thou look'st pale.[1062]
Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu![1064] [Exit.
If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him
That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune;[1066]
For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,
But send him back.[1067]
[Pg 91]
Enter Lady Capulet.[1071]
What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? 70
An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live;[1073][1074]
Therefore have done: some grief shows much of love.[1073]
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.[1073]
As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him.[1078]
God pardon him! I do, with all my heart;[1081][1082]
And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.[1081]
Would none but I might venge my cousin's death![1081]
Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,[1081]
Where that same banish'd runagate doth live,[1081]
Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram[1081][1084] 90
That he shall soon keep Tybalt company:[1081]
And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied.[1081]
With Romeo, till I behold him—dead—[1081][1085]
Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vex'd.[1081][1086] 95
Madam, if you could find out but a man[1081]
To bear a poison, I would temper it,[1081][1087]
That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,[1081]
Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors[1081]
To hear him named, and cannot come to him,[1081] 100
To wreak the love I bore my cousin[1081][1088]
Upon his body that hath slaughter'd him![1081][1089]
But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings, girl.[1081][1091]
What are they, I beseech your ladyship?[1093]
One who, to put thee from thy heaviness,
Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy,
That thou expect'st not, nor I look'd not for.[1094] 110
The gallant, young, and noble gentleman,
The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church,[1096]
Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.[1097] 115
He shall not make me there a joyful bride.
I wonder at this haste; that I must wed
Ere he that should be husband comes to woo.[1099]
I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam, 120
I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear,[1100]
It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,
Rather than Paris. These are news indeed![1101]
Enter Capulet and Nurse.[1104]
But for the sunset of my brother's son[1105]
It rains downright.[1105][1107]
How now! a conduit, girl? what, still in tears?[1107]
Evermore showering? In one little body[1108] 130
Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind:[1109]
For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,
Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,[1110]
[Pg 94] Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs;
Who raging with thy tears, and they with them,[1111] 135
Without a sudden calm will overset
Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife![1112]
Have you deliver'd to her our decree?[1113]
I would the fool were married to her grave! 140
How! will she none? doth she not give us thanks?[1115]
Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest,
Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought
So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?[1116] 145
Proud can I never be of what I hate;[1118]
But thankful even for hate that is meant love.[1119]
'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;'[1121] 150
And yet 'not proud:' mistress minion, you,[1121][1122]
Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds,
But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next,[1123]
To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church,
Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. 155
[Pg 95] Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage![1124][1125]
You tallow-face![1124][1126]
Hear me with patience but to speak a word.
I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,[1128]
Or never after look me in the face:
Speak not, reply not, do not answer me;
My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest[1129]
That God had lent us but this only child,[1130] 165
But now I see this one is one too much
And that we have a curse in having her:[1131]
Out on her, hilding!
You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.[1132]
Good prudence; smatter with your gossips, go.[1133]
Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl;[1136]
For here we need it not.
[Pg 96]
Day, night, hour, tide, time, work, play,[1137][1138][1139]
Alone, in company, still my care hath been[1137]
To have her match'd: and having now provided
A gentleman of noble parentage,[1140] 180
Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,[1141]
Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,
Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man;[1142]
And then to have a wretched puling fool,
A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,[1143] 185
To answer 'I'll not wed; I cannot love,
I am too young; I pray you, pardon me.'
But, an you will not wed, I'll pardon you:[1144]
Graze where you will, you shall not house with me:
Look to't, think on't, I do not use to jest. 190
Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise:
An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend;[1145]
An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,[1145][1146]
For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee,
Nor what is mine shall never do thee good:[1147] 195
Trust to't, bethink you; I'll not be forsworn. [Exit.
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
O, sweet my mother, cast me not away!
Delay this marriage for a month, a week; 200
[Pg 97] Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.[1148]
Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee. [Exit.
My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven;[1150]
How shall that faith return again to earth,[1150]
Unless that husband send it me from heaven[1150]
By leaving earth? comfort me, counsel me.[1150]
Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems[1151] 210
Upon so soft a subject as myself!
What say'st thou? hast thou not a word of joy?[1152]
Some comfort, nurse.[1152]
Romeo is banish'd, and all the world to nothing,[1153][1154]
That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you; 215
Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.[1155]
Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,
I think it best you married with the county.[1156]
O, he's a lovely gentleman![1157]
Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam, 220
Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye[1158]
As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,[1159]
I think you are happy in this second match,
For it excels your first: or if it did not,
Your first is dead, or 'twere as good he were 225
As living here and you no use of him.[1160]
[Pg 98]
Go in, and tell my lady I am gone,
Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell,
To make confession and to be absolved.[1164]
Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,[1167]
Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue
Which she hath praised him with above compare
So many thousand times? Go, counsellor; 240
Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.[1168]
I'll to the friar, to know his remedy:
If all else fail, myself have power to die.[1169] [Exit.
FOOTNOTES:
[730] Act iii. Scene i.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. Act iii. Scene iv. Capell.
A public place.] Capell. The street. Rowe.
[731] Enter....] Capell. Enter Mercutio, Benvolio, and men. Qq Ff.
[732] Capulets] Q4 Q5 Ff. Capels are (Q1). Capels Q2 Q3.
[733] And, if] An if S. Walker conj.
[734] And ... stirring] As in Rowe. Prose in Qq Ff.
[735] those] (Q1) F4. these Qq F1 F2 F3.
[736]
of the] of a Rowe.
it] (Q1) Pope. him Qq Ff.
[737] to] Pope. too Qq Ff.
[738] an] Pope. and Qq Ff.
[739] from] for Q5.
[740] An] Capell. And Qq Ff. If Pope.
[741] Enter....] Capell. Enter Tybalt, Petruchio, and others. Qq Ff. Transferred by Collier to follow line 33, by Dyce to follow line 34.
[742] come the Capulets] F2 Q5 F3 F4. comes a Capolet (Q1). comes the Capulets Q2 Q3 Q4 F1.
[743] us?] us, Q2.
[744] an] Capell. and Qq Ff. if Pope.
[745] will] shall Q5.
[746] consort'st] Ff. consortest Qq. consorts (Q1).
Romeo,—] Romeo— Rowe. Romeo. Qq F1 F3 F4. Romeo, F2.
[747] an] Capell. &. Q3 F1. and The rest. if Pope.
[748] 'Zounds,] Zounds Qq. Come Ff.
[Laying his Hand on his Sword. Rowe.
[749] Or] Qq Ff. And Capell.
[750] before] first Pope.
[751] love] Qq Ff. hate (Q1) Pope.
[752] that] om. Capell.
[753] excuse] exceed Collier MS.
[754] villain am I none] villaine I am none Q5. Omitted in F2 F3 F4.
[755] know'st] knowest Q2 Q3.
[756] injuries] iniures F2.
[757] injured] iniuried Q2.
[758] love] (Q1) Qq. lov'd Ff.
devise] devise, Q5. devise: Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2 F3. devise; F4.
[759] mine] Q2. my The rest.
[760] calm, dishonourable,] calme dishonourable, Q4 Q5.
[761] Alla stoccata] Knight. Alla stucatho Qq F1. Allastucatho F2 F3 F4. Ah! la Stoccata Theobald. Ha! la stoccata Hanmer. A la stoccata Capell.
carries it away.] carry it away! Lettsom conj.
it] is F2.
[Draws.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.
[762] you rat-catcher,] you, rat-catcher Rowe.
will] come, will Hanmer.
[763] wouldst] Q2 Q5 F4. woulds The rest.
[764] me hereafter,] me, hereafter Rowe.
dry-beat] Hyphened first in Rowe.
[765] pilcher] pilche Warburton. pitcher Singer conj. pilch, sir, Staunton conj.
[766] [Drawing.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff.
[767] [They fight.] Capell. Mer. and Tyb. fight. Rowe. om. Qq Ff.
[768] [draws and runs between. Capell.
[769] Draw ... good Mercutio!] Arranged as in Qq Ff. Capell ends the lines Benvolio; ... shame, ... Mercutio ... bandying ... good Mercutio.
[770] [striving to part them. Capell.
[771] Forbid this] Q2. Forbid Q3 Q4 Q5. Forbidden Ff.
[772] in Verona streets: Hold, Tybalt!] Here in Verona:—Tybalt;—Seymour conj.
[773] Verona] Verona's Q5.
[774] [Tybalt ...] Edd. (Globe ed.). Tibalt vnder Romeos arme thrusts Mercutio, in and flyes. (Q1). Away Tybalt. Qq. Exit Tybalt. Ff.
[775] o' both your] Dyce. a both Qq. a both the F1. of both the F2 F3 F4. on your(Q1). o' both the Capell.
[776] [Exit Page.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.
[777] o' both] Capell. a both Qq F1. of both F2 F3 F4. on both Johnson.
[778] 'Zounds] Q5. sounds Q2 Q3 Q4. What Ff.
[779] devil] Rowe. deule Q2. deu'le Q3 Q4 F1 F2. dev'll Q5. dev'l F3. div'l F4.
[780] o' both] F4. a both The rest. on both Johnson.
[781] I have it ... houses] Arranged as by Dyce. One line in Qq Ff.
[782] have it] ha't Capell.
[783] soundly too: your houses!] soundly too—your houses. Rowe. soundly, to your houses. Q2. soundly to your houses. Q3 F1. soundly to your houses— Q4 Q5. soundly too your houses. F2. soundly too, your houses. F3 F4. soundly too. Plague o' your houses! Theobald.
[784] [Exeunt ...] Ex. Mer. Ben. Rowe. Exit. Qq Ff. Exeunt. (Q1).
[785] Scene II. Pope.
[786] got this] Q2. tane this (Q1). gott his Q3. got his Q4 Ff Q5.
[787] reputation] reputation's S. Walker conj.
[788] kinsman] (Q1) Capell. cozen Q2 F3 F4. cozin Q3 Q4 F1 F2. cousin Q5.
[789] Re-enter ...] Re-enter ... hastily. Capell. Enter ... Qq Ff.
[790] Mercutio's] F2 Q5 F3 F4. Mercutio is Q2 Q3 Q4. Mercutio's is F1.
[791] more] (Q1) Qq F1. mo Q2 Q3 F1 F2 F3. moe Q4.
doth] (Q1) Qq F1. doe F2. do F3. does F4.
[792] begins the woe] Q5. begins, the wo Q2 Q3 F1. begins, the woe Q4 F2 F3. begins the woe, F4.
[793] Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter ... (Q1) Ff. Omitted in Qq. Transferred by Dyce to follow line 120.
[794] Alive, in triumph!] Pope, from (Q1). He gan in triumph Q2. He gon in triumph Q3 Q4. He gon in triumph, F1 F2. He gone in triumph, Q5 F3 F4. Again? in triumph? Capell.
[795] fire-eyed] Pope from (Q1). fier end Q2. fier and Q3. fire and Q4 F1 F2 Q5. fire, and F3 F4.
[796] Either] Or (Q1) Pope.
[797] Enter Citizens, &c.] Enter Citizens, Officers, &c. Capell. Enter Citizens. Qq Ff.
[798] Scene III. Pope.
[799] First Cit.] 1 Cit. Malone. Citti. or Citi. or Cit. Qq Ff. 1. O. Capell.
[800] Up] You Collier MS.
[801] name] names F1.
Enter ...] Capell, substantially. Enter Prince, olde Mountague, Capulet, their wives and all. Qq Ff.
[802] vile] vild F2 F3.
[803] all] (Q1) Ff Q5. all: Q2 Q3 Q4.
[804] kinsman] kisman Q2.
[805] La. Cap.] Rowe. Capu. Wi. or Cap. Wi. Qq Ff (and elsewhere).
[806] O prince!... husband! O,] O Prince, O Cozen, husband, O Qq Ff. Unhappy sight! alas Pope, from (Q1). Prince, O—cousin—husband—O— Johnson. O prince!—O husband!—O, Capell, corrected to O cousin!—husband!—O, in Notes and MS. Unhappy sight! ah me, Malone, from (Q1).
[807] O cousin, cousin!] Omitted by (Q1) Pope.
[808] Benvolio] om. Collier MS.
bloody] Qq. om. Ff.
[809] bid] (Q1) Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff. bad Q5. bade Malone.
[810] bow'd] Ff. bowed Qq.
[811] take] make Capell conj.
[812] Tybalt] Tybalts F1.
[813] it] it home Collier (Collier MS.).
[814] agile] agill (Q1) Q4 Q5. aged Q2 Q3 F1. able F2 F3 F4.
[815] entertain'd] (Q1) Q5. entertaind Q2. entertayn'd Q4. entertained Q3 Ff.
[816] And] An F3 F4.
to't] F3 F4. toote Q2 Q3. too't Q4 F1 F2 Q5.
[817] and] to Rowe.
[818] Montague] Mountagues Q5.
[819] owe?] Q3. owe. The rest.
[820] Mon.] Moun. Q4. Mou. Q5. Capu. Q2. Cap. Q3 Ff. La. Cap. Rowe. La. Mont. Theobald.
[821] I have ... proceeding] I had no interest in your heats preceding Johnson conj.
hate's] Knight. hates' Capell. hates (Q1). hearts Qq Ff. heats' Hanmer. hearts' Johnson.
[822] I will] It will Q2 Q3 F1.
[823] out] Qq. our Ff. for (Q1).
[824] he's] Theobald. he is Qq Ff.
his] the Q5.
[825] but] not F1.
[Exeunt.] Ff. Exeunt omnes. (Q1). Exit. Qq.
[826] Scene II.] Rowe. Scene IV. Pope. Scene V. Capell.
Capulet's orchard.] Capulet's Garden. Capell. An Apartment in Capulet's House. Rowe.
[827] Enter Juliet.] Enter Juliet alone. Qq Ff.
[828] Towards] Qq F1. Toward F2 F3 F4. To (Q1) Pope.
lodging] mansion (Q1) Pope.
[829] Phaethon] Phaetan Q2. Phaeton The rest.
[830] runaway's] runnawayes Q2 Q3. run-awayes Q4 F1 Q5. run-awaies F2 F3. run-aways F4. th' Run-away's Theobald (Warburton). rumour's Hudson (Heath conj.). run-away so quoted by Blackstone. Renomy's Mason conj. unawares Knight, ed. 1, and Collier, ed. 1 (Jackson conj.). Luna's Mitford conj. runagates' Muirson conj. rumourers' Singer (ed. 2). rumourous Singer conj. (withdrawn). Cynthia's S. Walker conj. enemies' Collier, ed. 2 (Collier MS.). rude day's Dyce. soon day's or roving Dyce conj. run-aways' Staunton. sunny day's Clarke conj. (sun away) or unwary or runagate or run-astray Taylor MS. conj. noonday's Anon. ap. Grant White conj. yonder Leo conj. run-abouts' Keightley. Titan's Bullock conj. sun-awake's Brady conj. wary ones' Anon. conj. ribalds' Anon. conj. Uranus' Anon. conj. roaming Anon. conj.
wink,] weep, So quoted by Knight.
[831] Leap] Leapt F2 F3.
unseen.] Rowe. unseene: Q5. unseene, or unseen, The rest.
[832] rites] F4. rights Qq F1 F2 F3.
[833] By] Q4 F2 Q5 F3 F4. And by Q1 Q3 F1.
if love be] of love to Q4. of love too Q5.
[834] sober-suited] Hyphen inserted in F4.
[835] maidenhoods] Q2 Q3 F1. maidenheads The rest.
[836] bating] Steevens. bayting Q2 Q3 F1 F2 F3. baiting Q4 Q5 F4.
[837] grown] Rowe. grow Qq Ff.
[838] Think] Thinks Rowe.
[839] new snow on] F2 F3 F4. new snow upon Q2 Q3 F1. snow upon Q4 Q5.
[840] he] Q4 Q5. I Q2 Q3 Ff.
[841] will be] shall be Q5.
[842] Enter....] Qq Ff, after line 31. Enter Nurse at a distance. Capell, after line 31. Transferred by Dyce.
[843] Romeo's name] Q5 F4. Romeos, name F1 F2 F3. Romeos name Q2 Q3 Q4.
[844] the cords ... fetch] As in Hanmer. One line in Qq Ff.
[845] [Throws....] Throwing.... Capell. om. Qq Ff.
[846] Ay] Ah Hanmer.
Ay ... hands?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[847] Ah] Pope. A Qq Ff.
well-a-day] welady Q3 Q4 Ff Q5. weraday Q2.
he's dead] Thrice in Qq. Twice in Ff.
[848] he's gone] hees is gone Q3.
[849] What ... thus?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[850] 'I' ... 'I'] ay ... ay Rowe.
[851] death-darting] death arting Q2.
[852] I ... woe.] Omitted by Pope.
[853] Johnson would transpose these lines, reading shot in the second.
[854] an I,] Q5. an I. The rest.
[855] an I ... 'I' ... 'I'] an Ay ... Ay ... Ay Rowe.
[856] shut] Capell. shot Qq Ff.]
make thee] Steevens, 1778 (Johnson conj.). makes thee Qq F1. makes the F2 F3 F4.
[857] Brief sounds] F4. Briefe sounds Q5. Briefe, sounds, Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2. Brief, sounds F3.
of] Ff Q5. om. Q2 Q3 Q4. or Collier (Collier MS.).
[858] bedaub'd] bedawde Q4. bedeaw'd Q5.
[859] swounded] (Q1). swouned Q5. swooned F4. sounded The rest.
[860] O ... once!] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
bankrupt] Q5 F4. banckrout or bankrout The rest.
[861] to] too Q2.
[862] one] on Q2 Q3 F1.
bier] Rowe. beare Q2 Q3. beere Q4 F1 F2 Q5. beer F3 F4.
[863] gentleman] gentlemen F2.
[864] blows] bowes F2 F3.
[starting up. Capell.
[865] dear-loved] (Q1) Pope. dearest Qq Ff.
dearer] dearest (Q1).
[866] Then] The F4.
dreadful trumpet] let the trumpet (Q1) Pope.
[867] gone] dead (Q1) Pope.
[868] O God!] As in Qq. As a separate line in Ff.
did] Nur. Did F2 F3.
[869] Nurse.] (Q1) Q5 F4. Omitted in the rest.
[870] Jul. O serpent ... Did] F2. Q3 F3 F4. Nur. O serpent ... Iv. Did Q2 Q3 Q4 F1.
[871] Dove-feather'd raven] Theobald. Ravenous dou featherd Rauen Q2 Q3 F1. Ravenous dove, feathred Raven Q4 Q5 F2 F3 F4.
wolvish-ravening lamb] As in Qq. A separate line in Ff.
[872] Dove-feather'd ... villain!] Put in the margin by Pope.
[873] Despised ... villain!] Omitted by Hanmer.
[874] Despised] Detested Long MS.
[875] damned] Q4 F2 Q5 F3 F4. dimme Q2 Q3. dimne F1.
villain] vallaine F2.
[876] bower] power Q4. poure Q5.
[877] There's ... dissemblers] As in Capell (following Pope). Two lines, the first ending men, in Qq Ff.
[878] All ... dissemblers] All, all forsworn; ... and all dissemblers Pope. All are forsworn, all false, all are dissemblers Seymour conj. All naught, all forsworn, all dissemblers Anon. conj.
[879] Blister'd] Blistered Q3 Q4 Q5.
[880] at him] Qq. him F1. him so F2 F3 F4.
[881] Will ... cousin?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[882] you] your F2 F3 F4.
[883] Tybalt's] Tibalt or Tybalt Ff.
slain] Qq F1. kil'd F2. kill'd F3 F4.
[884] word there was] Q2 F2 F3 F4. words there was Q3 Q4 F1. words there were Q5.
[885] murder'd] murdered Q4 F1 F3 F4.
[886] rank'd] wrankt Q3 Q4.
[887] follow'd] Q5. followed The rest.
[888] Which ... moved?] Omitted by Pope.
modern] moderate Long MS.
[889] with] which F1.
rear-ward] rear-word Collier conj.
[890] banished: to] Q2 Q5. banished to Q3 Q4 F1 F2 F3. banished, to F4.
[891] corse] Q4. course Q2 Q3. coarse (Q1) Ff Q5.
[892] tears:] teares: or tears: Q3 Q4 Ff. teares? Q2. teares, Q5.
[893] Take ... maidenhead!] Omitted by Pope.
[894] ropes] rops F2.
[895] I;] I, Q5 F3 F4. I The rest.
[896] a] an F4.
[897] maiden-widowed] The hyphen inserted by Rowe.
[898] cords] cordes Q2. cord The rest.
[899] here] heare Q3 Q4.
[900] [Exeunt.] Rowe. Exit. Qq Ff.
[901] Scene III.] Rowe. Scene V. Pope. Scene VI. Capell.
Friar....] Capell. The Monastery. Rowe.
[902] Enter Friar Laurence.] Capell. Enter Frier. (Q1). Enter Frier and Romeo. Qq Ff.
[903] Romeo ... man:] One line in (Q1) Qq. Two in Ff.
man:] man; [Enter Romeo. Capell.
[904] Affliction] Aiffletion F3.
[905] Enter Romeo.] (Q1) Dyce.
[906] Father ... doom?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[907] acquaintance] admittance F4.
[908] with] in Rowe.
[909] What ... doom?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[910] gentler] gentle F4.
vanish'd] vanisht (Q1) Qq Ff. even'd Warburton. issued Heath conj.
[911] Much ... death] Than death itself (Q1) Pope.
[912] Here] Hence (Q1) Hanmer.
[913] Verona] Verona's Pope.
[914] torture, hell] torturing hell Hanmer. Tartar, hell Warburton.
[915] banished] banish'd Rowe.
banish'd] blanisht Q2. banished Rowe.
[916] world's exile] world exilde (Q1). world-exil'd Pope.
[917] then ... mis-term'd:] Omitted in (Q1) Pope.
[918] then] that Theobald.
banished] banishment Hanmer.
[919] banished] banishment (Q1) Pope.
[920] smilest] smil'st Q5 F3 F4.
[921] rush'd] push'd Capell conj. and Long MS. brush'd Collier MS.
[922] This] That Rowe.
dear] meere (Q1). meer Pope.
[923] Live] Lives Rowe.
[924] blessing] blessings F4.
[925] Who] Which Pope.
[926] Who ... 'banished'?] Put in the margin by Pope. See note (VIII).
[927] as] and Rowe (ed. 2).
[928] But ... death?] See note (IX).
[929] sharp-ground] Hyphen inserted in F4. sharpt ground F2.
[930] Howling attends] (Q1) Qq. Howlings attends F1. Howlings attend F2 F3 F4.
[931] sin-absolver] Ff. sin (or sinne) obsolver Qq.
[932] 'banished'] banishment (Q1) Pope.
[933] Thou ... word] (Q1) Malone. Then fond mad man, heare me a little speake Q2 Q3. Thou ... a little speake Q4 Q5. Then fond mad man, heare me speake F1. Fond mad man, heare me speake F2 F3 F4 (mad-man F4).
[934] thee] the F2.
keep off that] beare off this (Q1). bear off that Pope.
[935] more.] more: F2 F3 F4. more—Rowe.
[936] madmen] mad man Q2.
[937] How ... eyes?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
that] Q2. om. Q3 Q4 Ff Q5.
wise men] Qq. wisemen F1 F2. wise-men F3 F4.
[938] dispute] (Q1) Qq. dispaire F1 F2. despair F3 F4.
[939] thou] [yu] F1. thō F2.
[940] Wert thou as young] If thou wert young Seymour conj.
as I, Juliet thy] (Q1) Qq. as Juliet my Ff.
[941] murdered] murdered (Q1) F2.
[942] Then ... hair] One line in (Q1) Rowe. Two in Qq Ff.
mightst ... mightst] (Q1) Q5. mightest ... mightst Q2. mightest ... mightest Q3 Q4 F1 F2. might'st ... might'st F3 F4. (milh'st F4).
[943] [Knocking within.] Throwing himself on the ground. Knock within. Rowe. Enter Nurse, and knocke. Q2. Enter Nurse, and knockes. Q3 Ff. Nurse knocks. Q4 Q5.
[944] Arise ... thyself] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[945] Rom. Not I ... arise;] Omitted by Pope.
[946] Not I] As in Qq. In a separate line in Ff.
[947] [Knocking.] They knocke. Q2 Q3. Knocke. Q4 Ff Q5.
[948] Hark ... arise] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
Who's] whose Q2 Q3.
[949] [Knocking.] Sludknock. Q2. Slud knock. Q3. Knocke againe. Q4 Q5. Knocke. Ff.
[950] simpleness] wilfulness (Q1) Pope.
[Knocking.] Knocke. Qq Ff.
[951] Who ... will?] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[952] Nurse [Within] Rowe. Nur. Qq Ff.
Let ... errand] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
errand] errant Q2 Q3.
[953] Enter Nurse.] As in Rowe. Inserted after line 78 in Qq Ff.
[954] Where is] (Q1) Rowe. Wheres Q2 Q3. Where's Q4 F1 Q5 F3. Wher's F2 F4.
[955] There ... drunk] One line in (Q1) Pope. Two in Qq Ff.
[956] mistress'] Pope. mistresse or mistress Qq Ff. mistress's Rowe.
case] cause F2 F3.
[957] O woeful ... predicament] Given to 'Friar' by Steevens (Farmer conj.). Continued to 'Nurse' in Qq Ff.
[958] lies] liles F2.
[959] Stand up ... stand;] Omitted by Pope.
[960] an you] Rowe (ed. 2). and you Qq Ff.
[961] an O? Rom. Nurse] an—Rom. Oh nurse Hanmer.
[962] Well, death's] (Q1) Malone. deaths Q2 Q3 F1 F2 F3. death's Q4 F4. death is Q5.
[963] Spakest] Q2 Q3 Q4. Spak'st Q5. Speak'st Ff.
is it] ist Q5. is't F4.
[964] she not] (Q1) Q5. not she Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff.
[965] I have] have I Rowe (ed. 2).
childhood] child-head Q5.
[966] doth] does F4.
[967] conceal'd] conseal'd Warburton.
our cancell'd] our canceld (Q1) Qq. our conceal'd Ff.
[968] calls ... cries] cries ... calls (Q1) Pope.
on] om. F3 F4.
[969] As if ... gun] As in Rowe. One line in (Q1) Qq Ff.
[970] dead'y] dead F1.
[971] Murder'd] Murdered F3 F4.
O] om. Pope.
[972] anatomy] anotamy F2.
[973] [Drawing his sword.] Theobald. om. Qq Ff. He offers to stab himselfe, and Nurse snatches the dagger away. (Q1).
hand:] hand. [wresting the Dagger from him. Capell.
[974] denote] (Q1) Q4 F1 Q5. denote Q2 Q3. doe note F2. do note F3 F4.
[975] Unseemly ... both!] Omitted by Pope.
[976] Or] (Q1) Steevens. And Qq Ff. An Warburton.
both] groth Warburton (? for growth).
[977] lady ... lives.] F4. lady, that in thy life lies, Qq F1 F2 F3. lady too, that lives in thee? (Q1) Pope.
[978] By doing ... defence] Omitted in (Q1) Pope.
[979] rail'st] raylest Q2 Q3 Q4.
[980] do meet In thee at once] so meet, In thee atone Warburton.
[981] lose] Q5 F3 F4. loose The rest.
[982] Which] Who Rowe (ed. 2).
a] an Q5 F4.
[983] Digressing] Disgressing Q3 Q4.
[984] in a] in the Capell (corrected in Errata).
[985] a-fire] Dyce. afire Collier. a fier Q2 Q3. a fire Q4 Ff. on fire Q5.
[986] slew'st ... too] (Q1) F2 F3 F4. slewest Tibalt, there art thou happie Qq. slew'st ... happie F1. slew'st Tybalt; there thou'rt happy too Pope.
[987] becomes] Qq. became Ff.
[988] turns] turnes Q2 Q4 Q5. turne Q3. turn'd Ff.
[989] of blessings] of blessing Q3. or blessing F1.
lights] (Q1) Q4. light Q2 Q3 Ff Q5.
[990] misbehaved and] (Q1) Q4 Q5. mishaued and Q2 Q3. mishaped and F1. mis-shaped and a F2 F3. misshapen and a F4. mis-hav'd and a Rowe.
[991] pout'st upon] powts upon Q4. poutst upon Q5. puts up Q2 Q3. puttest up Ff. frownst upon (Q1). poutest up Nicholson conj.
[992] the prince] Q2 Q4 Q5. thy prince Q3 Ff.
[993] all the night] Qq. all night Ff. all night long Pope.
[994] learning] learaing Q4.
[995] Here sir] Here is (Q1) Collier (ed. 2).
bid] Q2 Q3 Ff. bids Q4 Q5.
[996] [Exit.] Capell, after good night, line 166. om. Qq Ff. Exit Nurse. (Q1).
[997] Go hence ... hence:] Omitted in (Q1) Pope.
[998] Go hence] As in Qq. In a separate line in Ff.
[999] disguised] disguise Q2.
[1000] Farewell] om. Pope.
[1001] Scene IV.] Rowe. Scene VI. Pope. Scene VII. Capell.
A room ...] Capell. Capulet's House. Rowe.
[1002] Enter ...] Rowe. Enter old Capulet, his wife and Paris. Qq Ff.
[1003] had] om. F3 F4.
[1004] I promise ... ago] Omitted by Pope.
[1005] a-bed] Rowe (ed. 2). a bed Qq Ff.
[1006] time] (Q1) Rowe. times Qq Ff.
woo] woe Q4.
[1007] I will ... heaviness] Omitted in (Q1) Pope.
[1008] she's mew'd] Theobald. shees mewed Q2. she is mewed Q3 Q4 Ff Q5. she is mew'd Rowe.
[1009] [calling him back. Capell.
desperate] separate Hanmer (Warburton).
[1010] be] me Q2.
[1011] nay ...not] nay, I not doubt it Hanmer.
[1012] here of] Q4 F3 F4. here, of Q2 F1 F2. hereof, Q3. here with Q5. there with Keightley.
[1013] next—] Rowe. next, Qq Ff.
[1014] Wednesday] Q5 F3 F4. Wendsday Q2 Q3 Q4 F1. Wensday F2.
[1015] O' Thursday ... haste?] On Thursday let it be: you shall be marry'd. (Q1) Pope.
[1016] O' ... o'] Capell. A ...a Qq Ff. On ... o' Theobald.
[1017] We'll keep] Well, keep Q2.
[1018] there] there's Rowe.
[1019] My lord] As in (Q1) Qq. In a separate line in Ff.
[1020] o'] Capell. a Qq Ff. on Pope.
[1021] [To Lady Capulet. Rowe.
[1022] Afore ... so very very late ... by] (Q1) Dyce. Afore ... so very late ... by Qq (in one line). Afore ... so late ... by Ff (in one line). Omitted by Pope. 'Fore me ... so very late ... by Theobald (ending the lines we ... night). 'Fore me ... so late ... by Johnson (ending the first line at call). Now, afore ... so very late ... by Capell, ending line 34 at late.
[1023] it] ir F1.
[1024] Good night] Goodight F2.
[Exeunt.] Qq Ff. Exeunt, severally. Theobald.
[1025] Scene V.] Rowe. Scene VII. Pope. Act iv. Scene i. Capell.
Capulet's orchard.] The Garden. Rowe. Juliet's Chamber looking to the Garden. Theobald. Anti-room of Juliet's Chamber. Capell.
[1026] Enter ... above, at the window.] Enter ... aloft. Qq Ff. Enter ... at the window. (Q1). Enter ... above, at a Window; a Ladder of Ropes set. Rowe.
[1027] it ... day:] Omitted in F2 F3 F4.
[1028] yond] Qq Ff. yon (Q1) Warburton.
[1029] of the] of F2 F3 F4.
[1030] jocund] F4. iocand Q2. iocond or jocond The rest.
[1031] mountain] mountaines Q3 Q4 F1 Q5.
[1032] Yond] Yon (Q1) F4.
it, I] it well Pope. it Johnson.
[1033] sun] fen or fens Anon. conj.
exhales] exhale Q2 Q5.
[1034] Therefore ... gone.] Then stay a while, thou need'st not go so soon Pope, from (Q1).
stay yet; thou] stay yet, thou Qq F1 F2 F3. stay yet thou F4. stay, yet thou Rowe.
need'st not to be] needest not be Q5.
[1035] Let me ... to go.] Put, with line 16, in the margin by Pope, giving in the text the corresponding lines of (Q1).
[1036] yon] Qq Ff.
the] the the Q2.
[1037] brow] bow Collier (Collier MS. and Singer MS.).
[1038] the] om. F1.
[1039] heaven] heavens F3 F4.
[1040] care ... will] will ... care Johnson conj.
[1041] How ... soul?] What says my love? (Q1) Pope.
talk:] talke Q2 Q3. talke, or talk The rest.
[1042] loathed] loaded Warburton (a misprint).
change] chang'd Rowe (ed. 2).
[1043] would they had] wot they have Hanmer. wot they had Warburton (a misprint for have).
[1044] Since ... day.] Omitted by Pope.
[1045] hence] up Johnson.
[1046] light it] Qq. itli ght F1. it light F2 F3 F4.
[1047] Rom. More ... woes!] Omitted by (Q1) Pope, who inserts instead l. 42, Farewell ... descend.
light: more] light, more Qq Ff. light?—More Theobald.
[1048] Enter ... chamber.] Edd. Enter Madame and Nurse. Qq Ff. Enter Nurse. Rowe. Enter Nurse, to the door. Capell.
[1049] Nurse?] Theobald. Nurse. Qq Ff.
[1050] [Exit.] Exit Nurse. Theobald. om. Qq Ff.
[1051] Then ... out] Omitted by Pope. [opening it. Capell.
[1052] Rom. Farewell ... descend] Transferred to follow line 35 by Pope.
[1053] [Descends.] Romeo descends. Theobald. He goeth downe. (Q1). om. Qq Ff. Kisses her, and goes out of it. Capell.
[1054] my ... friend] (Q1) Boswell. love, Lord, ay husband, friend Qq F1. Love, Lord ah Husband, Friend F2 F3 F4. my love! my lord! my friend Malone. love, lord! my husband, friend Grant White conj.
[1055] day in the hour] hour in the day Collier (Collier MS.).
[Romeo comes down by the Ladder into the Garden. Rowe.
[1056] Farewell ... opportunity] As in Qq Ff. One line in Pope.
[1057] think'st] thinkst Q2 Q5. thinkest The rest.
[1058] our time] our times Q2. the time (Q1).
[1059] Jul.] Ro. Q2 Q3.
[1060] thee, now] Pope. thee now, Q2 Q3 Q4 Ff. thee now Q5.
below] (Q1) Pope. so lowe Qq Ff.
[1061] [Romeo descends. Pope.
[1062] look'st] lookest Q2 Q3 Q4.
[1063] my] mine Rowe (ed. 2).
[1064] [Exit.] Exeunt. Rowe (ed. 2).
[1065] Scene VI. Juliet's Chamber. Enter Juliet. Rowe. Scene VIII. Pope.
[1066] renown'd] renowmd Q2 Q3. renowm'd Q4.
[1067] La. Cap. [within] L. C. [within. Capell. La. or Lad. Qq Ff.
[1068] it is] Qq. is it Ff.
mother!] mother. Qq. mother? Ff.
[1069] Is ... early?] Omitted by Pope.
[1070] procures] provokes Hanmer.
hither] either Q3. hether Q4.
[1071] Enter Lady Capulet.] Capell. Enter Mother. Qq Ff (after line 64).
[1072] I am] I'm Pope.
[1073] An if ... wit.] Omitted by (Q1) Pope.
[1074] An] Theobald. And Qq Ff.
couldst ... couldst] wouldst ... couldst Collier MS.
[1075] La. Cap.] Rowe. La. or Lad. Qq Ff (and elsewhere).
[1076] La. Cap. So ... friend.] Omitted by Pope.
[1077] weep] do weep Theobald.
Feeling] But feeling or In feeling Mommsen conj.
[1078] slaughter'd] slaughtered Q3 Q4 Q5.
[1079] same] om. Hanmer.
[1080] [Aside] Hanmer.
be] are (Q1) Pope.
[1081] God ... girl.] See note (X).
[1083] murderer] Q2. om. Q3 Q4 Ff Q5.
[1084] Shall ... dram] That shall bestow on him so sure a draught Steevens, from (Q1).
unaccustom'd] accustom'd Q4.
[1085] him—dead—] Theobald. him. Dead Qq Ff. him—Dead Rowe.
[1086] vex'd] vext Johnson.
[1087] I would] I'd so Anon. apud Rann conj.
[1088] love] tender love Anon. conj.
bore] ever bore Lettsom conj. bore unto Anon. conj.
cousin] Qq F1. cousin, Tybalt F2 F3 F4. slaughter'd cousin Theobald. murder'd cousin Malone conj.
[1089] slaughter'd] slaughtered Q3 Q4.
[1090] La. Cap.] Rowe. Mo. Qq Ff (and elsewhere).
[1091] tidings] tiding Q4.
[1092] needy] needful (Q1) Pope.
[1093] I beseech] Q4 F2 Q5 F3 F4. beseech Q2 Q3 F1.
[1094] expect'st] Rowe (ed. 2). expects Qq Ff.
look'd] F4. lookt Qq F1 F3. looke F2.
[1095] that] Qq. this F1 Ff.
[1096] County] Count of Rowe (ed. 2).
Saint] St. F4.
[1097] happily] happly Q3 Q4.
there] Qq. om. Ff.
[1098] Saint] S. Q2.
[1099] should] must Q5.
woo] Q4. wooe Q2 Q3 Q5 F4. woe F1 F2 F3.
[1100] I swear,] Omitted by Pope, from (Q1).
[1101] These ... indeed!] Given to Lady Capulet by Collier (Collier MS.).
[1102] La. Cap.] Mer. Q4.
[1103] your] you F2.
[1104] Enter....] Enter Capulet, at a Distance; Nurse following. Capell, after line 123.
[1105] When ... downright.] Omitted by Pope.
[1106] air] ayre Q4. aire Q5. earth Q2 Q3 Ff.]
dew] daew F1.
[1107] It ... tears?] As in Ff. One line in Qq.
[1108] showering? In ... body] Q5. showring in ... body? Q2 Q3 Ff. showring: In ... body? Q4.
[1109] Thou counterfeit'st a] Q5. Thou countefaits. A Q2. Thou counterfaits. A Q3. Thou counterfeits, a Q4. Thou counterfaits a F1. Thou counterfeits a F2. Thy counterfeits a F3. Thy Counterfeit's a F4.
[1110] is] om. F2 F3 F4.
[1111] Who] Which Pope.
thy] Qq. the Ff.
[1112] wife] wise Q4.
[1113] deliver'd] Rowe (ed. 2). delivered Qq Ff.
[1114] Ay, sir] Arranged as in Qq. In a separate line in Ff.
gives] give Q2.
thanks.] thankes. Q5. thanks? F4. thankes, Q2 Q3 F1 F2. thanks, F3.
[1115] How!] How? Q5. How Q2 Q3 Q4. How, Ff.
[1116] bridegroom] Bride Q2.
[1117] Not ... that you have] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.
[1118] hate] Qq. have Ff.
[1119] that is meant] that's meant in Q5.
[1120] How ... this?] As one line in Qq. Two in Ff. Omitted in (Q1) Pope.
How, how! how, how!] Capell. How, how, howhow, Q2. How now, how now, Q3 Q4. How now? How now? Ff Q5.
chop-logic] Steevens (1793). chop logicke (Q1). chopt lodgick Q2 Q3 Q4. chopt logicke F1 F2. chopt logick Q5 F3 F4. chop logick Theobald.
[1121] 'I thank ... proud:'] yet not proud, ... And yet, I thank you, Lettsom conj.
[1122] And ... you,] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
proud:] Q4 Q5. proud Q2 Q3.
mistress] why, mistress Theobald. come, mistress Anon. conj.
[1123] fettle] (Q1) Qq F1. settle F2 F3 F4.
[1124] Out ... tallow-face] Omitted by Pope.
[1125] green-sickness] Hyphened in F4.
[1126] You] Out you F4.
tallow face] Hyphened in F4.
[1127] Cap.] Fa. Qq Ff.
[1128] thee] the F2.
o'] Theobald. a Qq Ff.
[1129] itch. Wife,] itch: Wife, Q5. itch, wife, Q2 Q3 Q4. itch, wife: Ff.
[1130] lent] sent (Q1) Pope.
[1131] curse] crosse (Q1). cross Grant White conj.
[1132] to blame] too blame Q3 F1 F2.
[1133] gossips,] Q3 Q4 Q5. gossips Q2. gossip, Ff.
[1134] Cap. O, God ye god-den.] Cap. O, God-ye-good-den? Capell. Cap: Oh goddegodden. (Q1). Fa. O Godigeden. Q4 Q5. Father, ô Godigeden, Q2 Q3 (as part of the Nurse's speech). Father, O Godigoden, F1. O Godigoden, F2 F3. O God gi' goode'en F4.
[1135] Nurse.] Q4 Q5. om. Q2 Q3 Ff.
Peace] Peace, peace Theobald.
mumbling] old mumbling Seymour conj.
[1136] gossip's] goships Q2.
bowl] bowles F1.
[1137] God's bread ... company] Qq Ff. God's ... work and play ... company Rowe (ed. 2). God's ... mad: day, night, late, early, At home, abroad; alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, Pope, from (Q1). Malone, reading early, late, follows Pope. As God's my friend! it makes me mad: Day, night, hundreds of times, at work at play, Alone, in company Bullock conj.
[1138] Johnson reads It makes ... play as one line, omitting God's bread and time.
[1139] tide] ride F1.
time] om. Keightley, reading God's ... provided as three lines, ending tide, ... care ... provided.
[1140] noble] princely (Q1) Capell.
[1141] demesnes] demeans F4. demeanes The rest.
train'd] (Q1) Capell. allied Q3 Q4 Ff Q5. liand Q2. 'lianc'd Capell conj. lined or loin'd Mommsen conj.
[1142] Proportion'd] Proportioned Q3 Q4.
thought would] heart could] (Q1) Capell.
[1143] fortune's] Theobald. fortunes Qq Ff.
[1144] an] Capell. and Qq Ff. if Pope.
[1145] An] Capell. And Qq Ff. If Pope.
[1146] starve] strave F1.
in the] i' th' Pope.
[1147] never] ever Q4 Q5.
[1148] dim] dun Johnson (1771).
[1149] O God] As in Qq. In a separate line in Ff.
[1150] My ... me] Omitted by Pope.
[1151] Alack, alack,] Hlacke, alacke F1. Alack! Hanmer.
[1152] What ... nurse.] Omitted by Pope.
[1153] Faith ... nothing] As in Ff. One line in Qq. Capell ends the first line at Romeo, reading 'tis and banished.
[1154] and] om. Pope.
[1155] by] my Q4.
[1156] county] count F2 F3 F4.
[1157] O, he's] Oh, 'faith, he is Hanmer.
gentleman!] gentleman! Romeo! Capell. gentleman in sooth! Keightley. lovely gentleman! Anon. conj.
[1158] green] keen Hanmer.
[1159] beshrew] Q5 F4. beshrow The rest.
[1160] here] hence Hanmer. there Anon. conj.
[1161] Speakest] Speakst Q2.
[1162] And ... else ... both] Q2. And ... or else ... both Q3 Q4 Q5. And ... Or else ... both Ff (to, F4), as two lines.
from] om. Capell conj.
too] om. Hanmer.
beshrew] (Q1) Qq Ff.
[1163] What?] To what? Hanmer. What say you? Dyce conj.
[1164] absolved] obsolu'd Q2.
[1165] [Exit.] om. Q2 Q3 F1. She lookes after Nurse. (Q1).
[1166] wicked] wither'd S. Walker conj. wrinkled Id. conj. (withdrawn).
[1167] Is it] It is F1.
[1168] henceforth] henchforth F1 F2.
[1169] [Exit.] Qq. Exeunt. Ff.
