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Next: Romeo and Juliet, Act two, Scene 3 __________ Explanatory Notes for Act 2, Scene 2 __________ Prologue one. He jests ... wound, Mercutio, who never felt the wound of dear, may well jest at the scars which Cupid's arrows accept left in my heart. That this is not a general, simply a particular, remark is, I think, proved by the answering rhyme, as Staunton has noticed. And as neither the folios nor the quartos make any division of scene, such partition, originally due to Rowe, seems conspicuously wrong. 2. soft! he bids himself 'hush,' cautions himself to talk in a lower vocalization. 4. envious, jealous. 7. Exist not her maid, no longer serve her, no longer go on a vow to live single; as Diana's votaries pledged themselves to do. 8. Her vestal ... green, the life of chastity to which she binds her priestess is i of sickly, jaundiced, hue. In ill and green there is probably, equally Delius suggests, an allusion to the "green-sickness" of which Shakespeare ofttimes speaks, and which in iii. 5. 157, below, Capulet applies as an epithet to Juliet in his anger at her refusal of Paris, "Out, yous green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage! Yous tallow-confront," — an ailment of languishing girls characterized by a pale complexion. The reading of the first quarto is pale for ill, and this is preferred by many editors. Collier would change ill into white, seeing in the line an innuendo to the white and green livery formerly worn by the Court fools; merely it seems unlikely that Shakespeare would utilise 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 first quarto, pale, without the violent modify 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 guiltlessness and celibacy; cp. Per. iii. 4. x, "A vestal livery volition I accept me to, And never more have joy." 12. what of that? but that matters little. 13. discourses, is eloquent in its mere look. 16. some business, some private affairs of their ain which would be hindered by their having to perform their nightly duty of lighting upward the sky. 17. in their spheres. According to the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, round about the world, which was the centre of the arrangement, were nine hollow spheres, consisting of the seven planets, the stock-still stars or firmament, and the Primum Mobile; the spheres with the stars and planets in them being whirled round the world in twenty-four hours by the driving power, the Primum Mobile. 21. the airy region, the upper air; region, was originally a division of the sky marked out by the Roman augurs. In later on times the temper was divided into iii regions, upper, middle, and lower. Cp. also Haml. ii. 2. 509. 24, v. O, that ... cheek, cp. Tennyson, The Miller's Daughter, 169-186. 28. winged messenger, angel. 29. white-upturned, turned up in adoration and then that the pupils are scarcely seen. 30. fall dorsum, stand back in awe, and also in guild to get a clearer view. 31. lazy-pacing, slowly drifting. Grant White compares Macb. i. 7. 21-five; lazy-pacing is Pope's conjecture for lasie pacing, of the first quarto; the remaining quartos and the folios give lazie, or lazy, puffing. 34. pass up, disown, disclaim; cp. T. C. iv. five. 267, "Nosotros have had pelting wars, since you refused The Grecians' cause." 37. speak at this, answer her without allowing her to get farther, interrupt her at this point. 39. Thou art ... Montague. Staunton explains "That is, as she afterwards expresses it, yous would still retain all the perfections which ardorn you, were not called Montague"; and so essentially Grant White, though Dyce calls such an explanation "unintelligible." Others follow Malone in putting the comma after though, equally used in the sense of nevertheless, with the explanation that Juliet is simply endeavouring to account for Romeo's being amiable and splendid though he is a Montague, to testify which she asserts that he merely bears the name, but has none of the qualities of that business firm. Various emendations accept also been proposed, simply Staunton'south caption seems to me quite satisfactory. 42. be some other name, be somebody else in proper noun than Montague. Lettsom objects that Shakespeare could not have written "be some other name"; but later the expression "What's Montague?", where "Montague" is used as though information technology were a thing, there seems no reason why we should not accept "be some other name." 46. owes, owns; as frequently in Elizabethan literature, the final n of the M. E. owen, to pcssess, being dropped. The modern sense of the give-and-take 'to be in debt,' 'to exist obliged,' comes from the sense of possessing another'south holding, just the word has no etymological connexion with to 'ain' = to possess; it existence from the A.S. agan, to have, while the latter is from the A.S. agnian, to appropriate, merits every bit 1's own, from agn, contracted grade of agen, one's own (Skeat, Ety. Dict.). 47. doff, put off; practice off, as don, practice on; dup, do upwardly; dout, do out. 48. for thy proper name, in exchange for your name. 53. So stumblest on my counsel, come then unexpectedly upon my hole-and-corner thouglits; cp. Yard. N. D. i. 1. 216, "Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sugariness," i.eastward. confiding to each other our inmost thoughts. 53, 4. By a name... am, if I could let yous know who I am without using a name, I would gladly do so, for it is impossible for me to proper name myself without deplorable you. 55. saint. Delius points out that this word recalls their outset meeting when, as a pilgrim, Romeo had thus greeted Juliet. 58. drunkard, 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 really impersonal, as in Oth. ii. 3. 49, "I'll exercise't; just it 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, so a bough or twig on which a bird settles. 67. stony limits, limits formed of stone, i.e. walls; stony, more ordinarily used as = of the nature of. 69. are no let to me, are no hindrance to me, cannot bar my way and go on me out. 71. Alack, according to Skeat, either a corruption of 'ah! lord,' or, which seems more probable, from ah! and M. E. lak, loss, failure. 73. proof against, able to suffer, agree out against; encounter note on i. i. 216. 76. but 1000 love me ... here, except, unless, you lot love me, I am quite willing that they should detect me here and impale me; without your beloved, life to me is not worth living. 78. Than death ... honey, than that my death should exist delayed if I am to be without your beloved; prorogued, the Lat. prorogare was to propose a further extension of role, lience to defer, though literally meaning only to inquire publicly, from pro-, publicly, and rogare, to ask. 81. counsel, advice. 83. vast shore. "Lat. vastus, empty, waste" (Walker). 84. I would adventure for, I would make my voyage in quest of, however keen the danger. 88. Fain ... form, gladly would I, if it were possible, stand on ceremony with you, care for you lot with distant formality; Fain, properly an describing word. 89. only adieu compliment, "only away with formality and punctilio" (Staunton); I now cast such things to the winds. 93. laughs, expert-humouredly disdains to punish them. Douce compares Marlowe's translation of Ovid'south Fine art of Love, i. 633, "For Jove himself sits in the azure skies, And laughs below at lover'due south perjuries," from which he thinks that Shakespeare borrowed. 94. pronounce it faithfully, assure me of your love without adding an adjuration to confirm your words. 97. So, 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, total of levity, wanton. 101. more cunning ... strange, more skill in affecting coyness. 104. passion, passionate confession; the word was formerly used of any strong emotion. 106. Which the dark ... discovered, which (love) has been revealed to you by the darkness of the night whose part should be to muffle; which y'all have discovered thanks to the darkness of the night. 110. circled, revolving; non, I think, 'round,' every bit Schmidt explains. 111. likewise, as. 113. gracious, attractive, finding favour in my eyes; cp. T. A. i. 1. 429, "if ever Tamora Were gracious in those princely optics 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 accept ... to-night, I experience no joy in now ratifying with oaths a contract between us. Similar Romeo, i. 4. 106-11, she has a presentiment of some evil befalling their plighted love. 118. unadvised, imprudent, formed without sufficient consideration. 121, 2. This bud of dearest ... meet, this new love of ours, cherished in our hearts, may expand into full growth by the time we next meet, every bit beneath the summer'southward warmth the bud expands into a admirable blossom. as that ... breast, "as to that heart within my breast" (Delius). 126. satisfaction, Delius points out the double sense here of payment and comfort. 129. And even so ... over again, and yet I wish I had not given information technology, in order that I might now over again accept the joy of giving it. 131. frank, liberal, free of hand; cp. Lear, 3. 4. 20, "Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all." 132. the thing I accept. sc. her own 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, arrange to accept sent. 146. the rite, sc. of marriage. 152. Past and past, in a minute, directly. 153. conform. Malone quotes from Brooke's verse form, Romeus and Juliet, "and now your Juliet you beseekes To cease your sute, and suffer her to alive emong her likes." 154. So thrive my soul — may my soul prosper (according as I mean well to you), the terminal words being broken off past Juliet'southward farewell. 156. A thou ... light, in answer to Juliet'due south wish of good-night he says, nay, not proficient night only bad nighttime, night fabricated a thousand times the worse past the absence of you who are its only light. 158. toward ... looks, sc. as schoolboys go toward, etc. 159. Hist! Listen! 159, 60. O, for ... again! would that I had a vocalization that would bring back my gentle Romeo as surely as the falconer's voice brings ack the tassel-gentle! "The tassel or tiercel (for so information technology should exist spelled) is the male of the gosshawk; so called because it is a tierce or tertiary 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 human being" (Steevens). "It appears," adds Malone, "that sure hawks were considered as appropriated to certain ranks. The tercel-gentle was appropriated to the prince, and thence was chosen by Juliet as an appellation for her beloved Romeo." 161. Chains ... aloud, one fettered, constrained by fear of existence overheard, similar me, is as much unable to call aloud as i whose vocalisation 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 inverse into a being neither able to speak until somebody had spoken, nor to be silent when everyone had spoken. 163. And make ... mine, and, past compelling her to repeat my cries, brand her hoarser than myself even. Dyce compares Comus, 208, "And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." 166. silver-sugariness, in innuendo to the sweet tone of bells made of silver. 167. attending, attentive. 173. to have ... there, in society to keep you standing there. 175. to take ... forget, so that you may continue to forget. 176. Forgetting ... this, forgetting that I have any home but this, forgetting that this is not really my home. 178. a wanton'southward bird, the pet bird of a mischievous daughter, a girl that loves to tease her pets. 180. gyves, chains, fetters. 182. So loving-jealous ... liberty, and then fond of it and notwithstanding so jealous of its getting its liberty. 186. shall say good night, shall continue proverb 'good night.' 188. and so sugariness to rest, having so sweet a resting place. 189. ghostly male parent, spiritual father; father, a title given to cosmic priests. 190. my beloved hap, the good fortune that has befallen me; hap, fortune, chance, accident, from which we go to 'happen' and 'happy.' How to cite the explanatory notes: ______ Even more... | Notes on Romeo and Juliet Juliet appears above at a window (stage management). Shakespeare did not include this stage management and it is not in Q1 or the Outset Folio. It was added in the 17th century and has remained ever since, although some editors choose to place the direction right after Romeo's line "He jests at scars that never felt a wound" (1), while others insert it correct earlier Romeo says "It is my lady, O it is my love" (x). 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