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2 SERV. When good manners shall lie alla in one or two men's hands, and they unwashed too, 't is a foul thing.

1 SERV. Away with the joint-stools, remove the court cupboard 22, look to the plate:-good thou, save me a piece of marchpaneb; and, as thou lovest me, let the porter let in Susan Grindstone, and Nell.-Antony! and Potpan! 2 SERV. Ay, boy; ready.

1 SERV. You are looked for, and called for, asked for, and sought for, in the great chamber.

2 SERV. We cannot be here and there too.-Cheerly, boys; be brisk a while, and the longer liver take all. [They retire behind.

Enter CAPULET, &c., with the Guests, and the Maskers.

CAP. Welcome, gentlemen! ladies, that have their toes
Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you :-
Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all

Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty, she,
I'll swear, hath corns; Am I come near ye now?
Welcome, gentlemend! I have seen the day,

That I have worn a visor; and could tell

A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear,

Such as would please; 't is gone, 't is gone, 't is gone:

You are welcome, gentlemen!-Come, musicians, play.

A hall! a hall give room, and foot it, girls. [Music plays, and they dance.
More light, ye knaves; and turn the tables up,
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
Were in a mask?

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1 CAP. What, man! 't is not so much, 't is not so much: T is since the nuptial of Lucentio,

Come Pentecost as quickly as it will,

Some five-and-twenty years; and then we mask'd.

2 CAP. T is more, 't is more: his son is elder, sir;

His son is thirty.

Thus (C). Folio omits all.

Marchpane. A kind of sweet cake or biscuit, sometimes called almond-cake. Our maccaroons are diminutive marchpanes.

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Thus (4). (C) and folio, walk about.

This passage, to "More light, ye knaves," is wanting in (A).

Good cousin Capulet. The word cousin, in Shakspere, was applied to any collateral relation of whatever degree: thus we have in this play "Tybalt, my cousin, Oh my brother's child." Richard III. calls his nephew York, cousin, while the boy calls Richard, uncle. In the same play York's grandmother calls him cousin, while he replies grandam.

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ROM. O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear:
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
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.
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
TYB. This, by his voice, should be a Montague:-
Fetch me my rapier, boy :-What? dares the slave
Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,

To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,

To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.

1 CAP. Why, how now, kinsman? wherefore storm you so? TYB. Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe;

A villain, that is hither come in spite, To scorn at our solemnity this night. 1 CAP. Young Romeo is 't?

TYB.
1 CAP. Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone,
He bears him like a portly gentleman;
And, to say truth, Verona brags of him,
To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:
I would not for the wealth of all the town,
Here in my house, do him disparagement:
Therefore be patient, take no note of him,

"T is he, that villain Romeo.

Her beauty hangs. All the ancient editions which can be considered authorities-the four quartos and the first folio-read It seems she hangs. The reading of her beauty is from the second folio. Why then, it may be asked, do we depart from our usual principle, and reject an undoubted ancient reading? Because the reading which we give has become familiar,—has passed into common use wherever our language is spoken,-is quoted in books as frequently as any of the other passages of Shakspere which constantly present themselves as examples of his exquisite power of description. Here, it appears to us, is a higher law to be observed than that of adherence to the ancient copies. It is the same with the celebrated passage,

"Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.”

All the ancient copies read the same. We believe this to be a misprint; but, even if that could not be alleged, we should feel ourselves justified in retaining the sun. Such instances, of course, present but very rare exceptions to a general rule.

(A), Like.

• So (C) and folio. (A), happy.

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What, goodman boy!-I say, he shall;-Go to ;-
Am I the master here, or you? go to.
You'll not endure him!-God shall mend
You'll make a mutiny among my guests!
You will set cock-a-hoopa! you'll be the man!
TYB. Why, uncle, 't is a shame.

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This trick may chance to scath you;-I know what.
You must contrary me!-marry, 't is time—
Well said, my hearts!-You are a princoxd; go:-
Be quiet, or-More light, more light.—For shame!—
I'll make you quiet; What!-Cheerly, my hearts.
TYB. Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting
Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.
I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall,
Now seeming sweet, convert to bitter gall.
Roм. If I profane with my unworthiest hand

This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,-
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
JUL. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;

For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

ROM. Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
JUL. Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
ROM. O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
JUL. Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
ROM. Then move not, while my prayers' effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by thinef my sin is purg'd.

[Exit. [TO JULIET.

[Kissing her.

Set cock-a-hoop. The origin of this phrase, which appears always to be used in the sense of hasty and violent excess, is very doubtful. The received opinion is, that on some festive occasions the cock, or spigot, was taken out of the barrel and laid on the hoop, and that the uninterrupted flow of the ale naturally led to intemperance.

To scath-to injure.

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Princox-coxcomb.

Contrary. Sir Philip Sidney, and many other old writers, use this as a verb.

• So all the old copies. Warburton changed sin to fine.

(A), yours.

JUL. Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
ROM. Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd!

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NURSE. Madam, your mother craves a word with you.

ROM. What is her mother?

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O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.
BEN. Away, begone; the sport is at the best.
ROM. Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest.
1 CAP. Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone;
We have a trifling foolish banquet towards a.
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.
Ah, sirrah [To 2 CAP.], by my fay, it waxes late;
I'll to my rest.

[Exeunt all but JULIET and Nurse.

JUL. Come hither, nurse: What is yon gentleman?
NURSE. The son and heir of old Tiberio.

JUL. What's he, that now is going out of door?

NURSE. Marry, that, I think, be young Petruchio.

JUL. What's he, that follows there, that would not dance?
NURSE. I know not.

JUL. Go, ask his name:-if he be married,

My grave is like to be my wedding bed.
NURSE. His name is Romeo, and a Montague;
The only son of your great enemy.

JUL. My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.
NURSE. What's this? What's this?
JUL.

Of one I danc'd withal.

NURSE.

A rhyme I learn'd even now

[One calls within "Juliet."

Anon, anon:—

[Exeunt.

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Enter CHORUS.

Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,

And young affection gapes to be his heir;

That fair, for which love groan'd for, and would die,
With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.
Now Romeo is belov'd, and loves again,

Alike bewitched by the charm of looks;
But to his foe suppos'd he must complain,

And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks:

Being held a foe, he may not have access

To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear;

And she as much in love, her means much less
To meet her new-beloved anywhere:

But passion lends them power, time means, to meet,
Temp'ring extremities with extreme sweet.

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