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Romeo and Juliet Please see the bottom of the page for explanatory notes. Please click here for even more than notes and paraphrases. Deed Two SCENE II Capulet's orchard. [Enter ROMEO] ROMEO He jests at scars that never felt a wound. [JULIET appears above at a window] Just, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? Information technology is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Ascend, off-white sunday, and kill the envious moon, Who is already ill and pale with grief, That chiliad her maid art far more than off-white than she: Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is only sick and light-green And none but fools exercise wear it; bandage information technology off. It is my lady, O, information technology is my love! 10 O, that she knew she were! She speaks nevertheless she says zilch: what of that? Her middle discourses; I will answer information technology. I am too bold, 'tis non to me she speaks: Ii of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, exercise entreat her optics To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were in that location, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, Every bit daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven 20 Would through the blusterous region stream so bright That birds would sing and recollect it were not nighttime. Run across, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek! JULIET Ay me! ROMEO She speaks: O, speak over again, vivid affections! for thou fine art As glorious to this night, beingness o'er my caput As is a winged messenger of sky Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall dorsum to gaze on him thirty When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air. JULIET O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art chiliad Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if 1000 wilt non, exist merely sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet. ROMEO [Bated] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this? JULIET 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? information technology is nor paw, nor foot, 40 Nor arm, nor face, nor whatsoever other part Belonging to a man. O, exist some other name! What's in a name? that which we phone call a rose By any other name would smell every bit sweet; So Romeo would, were he non Romeo phone call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Have all myself. ROMEO I take thee at thy word: Call me merely love, and I'll be new baptized; 50 Henceforth I never will be Romeo. JULIET What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in dark So stumblest on my counsel? ROMEO By a proper name I know not how to tell thee who I am: My name, love saint, is hateful to myself, Considering it is an enemy to thee; Had I it written, I would tear the discussion. JULIET My ears take not yet drunk a hundred words Of that natural language's utterance, nonetheless I know the sound: Art g not Romeo and a Montague? 60 ROMEO Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike. JULIET How camest 1000 hither, tell me, and wherefore? The orchard walls are high and difficult to climb, And the identify death, because who thousand fine art, If any of my kinsmen find thee here. ROMEO With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what beloved tin can practice that dares love attempt; Therefore thy kinsmen are no allow to me. JULIET If they do run across thee, they will murder thee. 70 ROMEO Alack, there lies more peril in thine centre Than xx of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof confronting their enmity. JULIET I would not for the earth they saw thee here. ROMEO I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight; And merely thou dearest me, let them find me here: My life were better ended by their detest, Than expiry prorogued, wanting of thy love. JULIET By whose management constitute'st thou out this identify? ROMEO Past love, who starting time did prompt me to enquire; 80 He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes. I am no airplane pilot; yet, wert thousand as far As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest bounding main, I would adventure for such merchandise. JULIET Thousand know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: merely goodbye compliment! Dost 1000 dear me? I know 1000 wilt say 'Ay,' 90 And I will have thy word: yet if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove fake; at lovers' perjuries And so say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo, If thou dost dearest, pronounce it faithfully: Or if chiliad call back'st I am too speedily won, I'll pout and be perverse an say thee nay, And so 1000 wilt woo; only else, non for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore k mayst think my 'havior light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true 100 Than those that have more cunning to exist foreign. I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that one thousand overheard'st, ere I was ware, My truthful love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light love, Which the dark nighttime hath so discovered. ROMEO Lady, past yonder blessed moon I swear That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops-- JULIET O, swear non by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, 110 Lest that thy dearest prove likewise variable. ROMEO What shall I swear past? JULIET Exercise not swear at all; Or, if thou wilt, swear past thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee. ROMEO If my heart'due south dear beloved-- JULIET Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sugariness, good nighttime! 120 This bud of dearest, by summertime'south ripening breath, May evidence a admirable flower when next we meet. Good nighttime, good night! as sweet serenity and rest Come to thy heart every bit that inside my breast! ROMEO O, wilt thou leave me and then unsatisfied? JULIET What satisfaction canst thou have to-nighttime? ROMEO The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine. JULIET I gave thee mine before yard didst request it: And however I would it were to give over again. 129 ROMEO Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, dear? JULIET Only to be frank, and give information technology thee again. And yet I wish but for the thing I have: My bounty is as dizzying every bit the sea, My love as deep; the more than I give to thee, The more than I have, for both are infinite. [Nurse calls within] I hear some noise within; dear dear, adieu! Anon, proficient nurse! Sweet Montague, be true. Stay but a little, I will come once again. [Exit, above] ROMEO O blest, blessed dark! I am afeard. Being in night, all this is but a dream, 140 Too flattering-sweet to be substantial. [Re-enter JULIET, above] JULIET 3 words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. If that thy aptitude of dear exist honourable, Thy purpose spousal relationship, transport me word to-morrow, By ane that I'll procure to come to thee, Where and what time g wilt perform the rite; And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay And follow thee my lord throughout the world. Nurse [Inside] Madam! JULIET I come, betimes.-- But if chiliad mean'st not well, 150 I do beseech thee-- Nurse [Within] Madam! JULIET By and by, I come:-- To finish thy suit, and leave me to my grief: To-morrow will I ship. ROMEO So thrive my soul-- JULIET A thousand times good night! [Exit, higher up] ROMEO A grand times the worse, to desire thy light. Dearest goes toward beloved, equally schoolboys from their books, But love from honey, toward schoolhouse with heavy looks. [Retiring] [Re-enter JULIET, to a higher place] JULIET Hist! Romeo, hist! O, for a falconer'due south voice, To lure this tassel-gentle back again! 160 Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud; Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies, And make her blusterous tongue more hoarse than mine, With repetition of my Romeo's name. ROMEO Information technology is my soul that calls upon my name: How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears! JULIET Romeo! ROMEO My dear? JULIET At what o'clock to-morrow Shall I send to thee? ROMEO At the hour of nine. JULIET I will not fail: 'tis 20 years till and so. 170 I accept forgot why I did telephone call thee back. ROMEO Permit me stand here till thou recall it. JULIET I shall forget, to have thee still stand there, Remembering how I honey thy company. ROMEO And I'll withal stay, to accept thee nonetheless forget, Forgetting whatsoever other dwelling but this. JULIET 'Tis nigh morning; I would accept thee gone: And yet no further than a wanton's bird; Who lets it hop a picayune from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, 180 And with a silk thread plucks it dorsum again, And then loving-jealous of his liberty. ROMEO I would I were thy bird. JULIET Sweet, so would I: All the same I should kill thee with much cherishing. Good nighttime, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. [Leave above] ROMEO Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy chest! Would I were slumber and peace, then sweetness to rest! Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell, His assistance to crave, and my dear hap to tell. [Exit] Side by side: Romeo and Juliet, Human action ii, Scene 3 __________ Explanatory Notes for Human activity two, Scene 2 From Romeo and Juliet. Ed. Thousand. Deighton. London: Macmillan. __________ Prologue ane. He jests ... wound, Mercutio, who never felt the wound of love, may well jest at the scars which Cupid'due south arrows have left in my center. That this is not a general, only a particular, remark is, I think, proved past the answering rhyme, as Staunton has noticed. And as neither the folios nor the quartos make any segmentation of scene, such division, originally due to Rowe, seems clearly wrong. 2. soft! he bids himself 'hush,' cautions himself to talk in a lower vocalism. iv. envious, jealous. 7. Exist not her maid, no longer serve her, no longer keep a vow to live unmarried; equally Diana's votaries pledged themselves to do. viii. Her vestal ... light-green, the life of guiltlessness to which she binds her priestess is i of sickly, jaundiced, hue. In sick and light-green at that place is probably, equally Delius suggests, an innuendo to the "light-green-sickness" of which Shakespeare often speaks, and which in iii. 5. 157, below, Capulet applies as an epithet to Juliet in his anger at her refusal of Paris, "Out, you lot green-sickness carrion! out, you lot baggage! You tallow-face," — an ailment of languishing girls characterized by a stake complexion. The reading of the showtime quarto is pale for ill, and this is preferred by many editors. Collier would change sick into white, seeing in the line an innuendo to the white and dark-green livery formerly worn by the Court fools; but it seems unlikely that Shakespeare would use the give-and-take fools in this literal sense when referring to Juliet, while, as Grant White points out, if such an allusion were intended, it would be obtained from the reading of the get-go quarto, stake, without the violent change to white; vestal livery. Vesta was the Roman goddess of the hearth, respective with the Greek Hestia, and her priestesses were vowed to a life of chastity and celibacy; cp. Per. iii. 4. 10, "A vestal livery volition I take me to, And never more have joy." 12. what of that? just that matters little. 13. discourses, is eloquent in its mere wait. 16. some business concern, some individual affairs of their own which would be hindered by their having to perform their nightly duty of lighting upward the heaven. 17. in their spheres. According to the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, circular about the globe, which was the heart of the system, were nine hollow spheres, consisting of the seven planets, the fixed stars or firmament, and the Primum Mobile; the spheres with the stars and planets in them being whirled round the globe in 24-hour interval past the driving power, the Primum Mobile. 21. the airy region, the upper air; region, was originally a division of the heaven marked out past the Roman augurs. In later on times the atmosphere was divided into three regions, upper, middle, and lower. Cp. as well Haml. two. 2. 509. 24, 5. O, that ... cheek, cp. Tennyson, The Miller's Girl, 169-186. 28. winged messenger, angel. 29. white-upturned, turned up in adoration so that the pupils are scarcely seen. xxx. fall back, stand back in awe, and also in order to get a clearer view. 31. lazy-pacing, slowly drifting. Grant White compares Macb. i. seven. 21-five; lazy-pacing is Pope's conjecture for lasie pacing, of the first quarto; the remaining quartos and the folios requite lazie, or lazy, puffing. 34. pass up, disown, disclaim; cp. T. C. iv. 5. 267, "We have had pelting wars, since you lot refused The Grecians' cause." 37. speak at this, answer her without assuasive her to go further, interrupt her at this signal. 39. Thou art ... Montague. Staunton explains "That is, as she afterwards expresses it, yous would yet retain all the perfections which ardorn you, were not called Montague"; then substantially Grant White, though Dyce calls such an explanation "unintelligible." Others follow Malone in putting the comma after though, as used in the sense of nonetheless, with the caption that Juliet is simply endeavouring to account for Romeo'southward beingness affable and excellent though he is a Montague, to show which she asserts that he merely bears the name, merely has none of the qualities of that house. Various emendations take too been proposed, merely Staunton's explanation seems to me quite satisfactory. 42. be some other name, be somebody else in name than Montague. Lettsom objects that Shakespeare could not accept written "be some other name"; merely after the expression "What's Montague?", where "Montague" is used every bit though it were a thing, there seems no reason why nosotros should not have "exist another name." 46. owes, owns; every bit frequently in Elizabethan literature, the final n of the M. Eastward. owen, to pcssess, being dropped. The modern sense of the word 'to be in debt,' 'to be obliged,' comes from the sense of possessing another's holding, just the discussion has no etymological connection with to 'ain' = to possess; it being from the A.S. agan, to have, while the latter is from the A.Southward. agnian, to appropriate, claim equally one'southward own, from agn, contracted grade of agen, one's own (Skeat, Ety. Dict.). 47. doff, put off; exercise off, every bit don, do on; dup, do upwards; dout, practice out. 48. for thy proper noun, in commutation for your proper name. 53. Then stumblest on my counsel, come and so unexpectedly upon my secret thouglits; cp. M. Due north. D. i. 1. 216, "Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet," i.due east. confiding to each other our inmost thoughts. 53, four. By a name... am, if I could let you know who I am without using a proper name, I would gladly do so, for it is impossible for me to proper name myself without sad you. 55. saint. Delius points out that this word recalls their first meeting when, as a pilgrim, Romeo had thus greeted Juliet. 58. drunk, unconsciously acknowledging the ardor with which she had listened to his words. 61. if either thee dislike, if either be unpleasant to your ears; dislike is actually impersonal, as in Oth. two. 3. 49, "I'll do't; but information technology mislike's me." 64. And the place death, and to venture here is to risk your life. 66. o'er-perch these walls, fly over these walls and settle here, as a bird settles upon a branch after a flight from some other spot; a perch is literally a rod, bar, then a bough or twig on which a bird settles. 67. stony limits, limits formed of stone, i.e. walls; stony, more commonly used as = of the nature of. 69. are no let to me, are no hindrance to me, cannot bar my style and go along me out. 71. Alack, according to Skeat, either a corruption of 'ah! lord,' or, which seems more likely, from ah! and M. E. lak, loss, failure. 73. proof against, able to endure, hold out against; encounter note on i. 1. 216. 76. just thou love me ... here, except, unless, y'all love me, I am quite willing that they should discover me here and kill me; without your beloved, life to me is not worth living. 78. Than death ... honey, than that my decease should be delayed if I am to be without your dearest; prorogued, the Lat. prorogare was to propose a further extension of role, lience to defer, though literally pregnant but to ask publicly, from pro-, publicly, and rogare, to enquire. 81. counsel, advice. 83. vast shore. "Lat. vastus, empty, waste matter" (Walker). 84. I would hazard for, I would make my voyage in quest of, still corking the danger. 88. Fain ... class, gladly would I, if it were possible, stand on ceremony with you, care for y'all with distant formality; Fain, properly an adjective. 89. but farewell compliment, "just away with formality and punctilio" (Staunton); I at present cast such things to the winds. 93. laughs, good-humouredly disdains to punish them. Douce compares Marlowe'south translation of Ovid'south Fine art of Love, i. 633, "For Jove himself sits in the azure skies, And laughs below at lover's perjuries," from which he thinks that Shakespeare borrowed. 94. pronounce it faithfully, assure me of your honey without adding an oath to confirm your words. 97. And then, provided that. 98. fond, foolishly loving; fond, originally fonned, the past participle of the verb fonnen, to act foolishly, from the substantive fon, a fool. 99. lite, full of levity, wanton. 101. more cunning ... strange, more skill in affecting coyness. 104. passion, passionate confession; the discussion was formerly used of any strong emotion. 106. Which the dark ... discovered, which (dear) has been revealed to you by the darkness of the night whose office should be to conceal; which you have discovered thanks to the darkness of the night. 110. circled, revolving; not, I call back, 'circular,' as Schmidt explains. 111. likewise, every bit. 113. gracious, bonny, finding favour in my optics; cp. T. A. i. 1. 429, "if ever Tamora Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine." This is the reading of the first quarto, the other old copies giving glorious, which Grant White thinks more suitable to the context. 114.of my idolatry, that I worship. 117. I have ... to-night, I feel no joy in now ratifying with oaths a contract between us. Like Romeo, i. 4. 106-11, she has a presentiment of some evil befalling their plighted dearest. 118. unadvised, imprudent, formed without sufficient consideration. 121, 2. This bud of love ... meet, this new love of ours, cherished in our hearts, may expand into total growth by the time we side by side meet, as beneath the summertime's warmth the bud expands into a beauteous blossom. equally that ... breast, "as to that heart within my breast" (Delius). 126. satisfaction, Delius points out the double sense here of payment and condolement. 129. And yet ... again, and still I wish I had not given it, in guild that I might at present again have the joy of giving it. 131. frank, liberal, complimentary of mitt; cp. Lear, iii. 4. 20, "Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all." 132. the thing I have. sc. her ain infinite honey. 143. If that ... honourable, if your love is honourable in its intentions; for that, as a conjunctional affix, see Abb. § 287. 145. procure to come, adapt to have sent. 146. the rite, sc. of marriage. 152. By and by, in a minute, direct. 153. adjust. Malone quotes from Brooke's poem, Romeus and Juliet, "and now your Juliet you beseekes To stop your sute, and suffer her to live emong her likes." 154. So thrive my soul — may my soul prosper (according equally I mean well to you), the concluding words being broken off by Juliet'due south farewell. 156. A thousand ... light, in answer to Juliet's wish of good-nighttime he says, nay, not good night but bad night, dark made a chiliad times the worse by the absence of you who are its but calorie-free. 158. toward ... looks, sc. as schoolboys become toward, etc. 159. Hist! Heed! 159, sixty. O, for ... again! would that I had a voice that would bring back my gentle Romeo as surely equally the falconer's phonation brings ack the tassel-gentle! "The tassel or tiercel (for so it should be spelled) is the male person of the gosshawk; and then called because information technology is a tierce or third less than the female...This species of hawk had the epithet gentle annexed to it, from the ease with which it was tamed, and its attachment to homo" (Steevens). "It appears," adds Malone, "that certain hawks were considered as appropriated to certain ranks. The tercel-gentle was appropriated to the prince, and thence was chosen by Juliet equally an appellation for her love Romeo." 161. Bondage ... aloud, one fettered, constrained by fearfulness of being overheard, like me, is as much unable to phone call aloud every bit one whose phonation is stopped by hoarseness of the throat. 162. Else ... lies, otherwise by my loud cries I would rend the cave in which Echo dwells; Echo, an Oread who by Juno was changed into a being neither able to speak until somebody had spoken, nor to be silent when anybody had spoken. 163. And make ... mine, and, by compelling her to repeat my cries, make her hoarser than myself even. Dyce compares Comus, 208, "And airy tongues that syllable men'south names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." 166. silver-sugariness, in allusion to the sweet tone of bells made of silverish. 167. attending, attentive. 173. to have ... there, in order to keep you continuing there. 175. to have ... forget, so that you may continue to forget. 176. Forgetting ... this, forgetting that I accept any home but this, forgetting that this is non actually my home. 178. a wanton's bird, the pet bird of a mischievous girl, a daughter that loves to tease her pets. 180. gyves, bondage, fetters. 182. So loving-jealous ... liberty, so addicted of it and nevertheless and then jealous of its getting its liberty. 186. shall say skilful dark, shall continue proverb 'adept dark.' 188. then sweet to rest, having and then sweet a resting place. 189. ghostly father, spiritual father; father, a title given to catholic priests. 190. my dear hap, the proficient fortune that has befallen me; hap, fortune, chance, blow, from which we become to 'happen' and 'happy.' How to cite the explanatory notes: Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Ed. K. Deighton. London: Macmillan, 1916. Shakespeare Online. 20 Feb. 2013. < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/romeo_2_2.html >. How to cite the sidebar: Mabillard, Amanda. Notes on Shakespeare. 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Notes on Romeo and Juliet Juliet appears higher up at a window (stage direction). Shakespeare did not include this stage direction and information technology is not in Q1 or the First Page. Information technology was added in the 17th century and has remained e'er since, although some editors cull to identify the direction right after Romeo's line "He jests at scars that never felt a wound" (1), while others insert it right before Romeo says "It is my lady, O it is my love" (10). ____ More to Explore Romeo and Juliet: Consummate Play with Explanatory Notes  Themes and Motifs in Romeo and Juliet  Phase History of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet: Examination Questions and Answers  Queen Mab in Apparently English  Romeo, Rosaline, and Juliet  The Importance of Romeo and Rosaline Romeo and Juliet Plot Summary (Acts ane and ii) Romeo and Juliet Plot Summary (Acts 3, 4 and 5) Romeo and Juliet and the Rules of Dramatic Tragedy Romeo and Juliet: Teacher's Notes and Classroom Discussion  What Is Accomplished in Act I?  The Purpose of Romeo's witticisms in 2.1.  Friar Laurence's First Soliloquy  The Dramatic Function of Mercutio's Queen Mab Spoken communication _____ sick and green ] The phrase sick and green refers to the anaemic status known equally chlorosis, or greenish sickness. The goddess Diana (the moon personified) is sickly pale and envious of Juliet's beauty (6). Juliet, also, as a follower of Diana (i.due east,. a virgin) is looking quite sickly pale herself. As Helen King argues in her book The disease of virgins: green sickness, chlorosis and the problems of puberty, "...for an early modern reader, the disease characterization 'dark-green sickness' - like 'the disease of virgins' - could contain inside itself the cure: sexual feel" (35). Read on... _____  Mercutio'due south Death and its Role in the Play  Costume Design for a Production of Romeo and Juliet  Shakespeare's Treatment of Honey  Shakespeare on Fate  Sources for Romeo and Juliet  The Five Stages of Plot Development in Romeo and Juliet  Annotated Balcony Scene, Act 2  Blank Poetry and Rhyme in Romeo and Juliet  How to Pronounce the Names in Romeo and Juliet  Introduction to Juliet  Introduction to Romeo  Introduction to Mercutio  Introduction to The Nurse  Introduction to The Montagues and the Capulets  Famous Quotations from Romeo and Juliet  Why Shakespeare is then Of import  Shakespeare's Linguistic communication  Shakespeare'due south Boss: The Master of Revels  What is Tragic Irony?  Seneca's Tragedies and the Elizabethan Drama  Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama Notes on Shakespeare... Richard Shakespeare, Shakespeare'southward paternal granddaddy, was a farmer in the modest village of Snitterfield, located 4 miles from Stratford. Records testify that Richard worked on several different farms which he leased from various landowners. Coincidentally, Richard leased land from Robert Arden, Shakespeare'south maternal grandfather. Read on... ____ Shakespeare acquired substantial wealth thanks to his acting and writing abilities, and his shares in London theatres. The going rate was £ten per play at the turn of the sixteenth century. So how much money did Shakespeare brand? Read on... Henry Bolingbroke, the eldest son of John of Gaunt and the grandson of Rex Edward Three, was born on April 3, 1367. Henry usurped the throne from the ineffectual King Richard 2 in 1399, and thus became Male monarch Henry 4, the start of the three kings of the House of Lancaster. Read on... ____ Known to the Elizabethans every bit ague, Malaria was a common malady spread by the mosquitoes in the marshy Thames. The swampy theatre district of Southwark was always at risk. King James I had information technology; so too did Shakespeare'southward friend, Michael Drayton. Read on... ____ Shakespeare was familiar with vii foreign languages and oft quoted them directly in his plays. His vocabulary was the largest of whatsoever author, at over twenty-four thousand words. Read on...

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