He bears him like a portly gentleman; Tyb. It fits, when such a villain is a guest; 1 Cap. He shall be endur'd; You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man! Tyb. Why, uncle, 'tis a shame. 1 Cap. Go to, go to, You are a saucy boy :-Is't so, indeed?- Rom. If I profane with my unworthy hand [Exit. [TO JULIET. This holy shrine, the gentle fine 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. to scath you;] i. e. To do you an injury. princox ;] i. e. A pert, forward youth; probably corrupted from the Latin præcor.-NARES. 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 prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purg'd. [Kissing her.P Jul. Then have my lips the sin that they have took. Rom. Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd! Give me my sin again. Jul. You kiss by the book. Nurse. Madam, your mother craves a word with you. Rom. What is her mother? Nurse. Marry, bachelor, Her mother is the lady of the house, And a good lady, and a wise, and virtuous: I nurs'd her daughter, that you talk'd withal; I tell you, he, that can lay hold of her, Shall have the chinks. Rom. Is she a Capulet? O dear account! my life is my foe's debt. [Exeunt all but JULIET and Nurse. • O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair;] Juliet had said before, that "Palm to palm was holy palmers' kiss." She afterwards says, that " palmers have lips which they must use in prayer." Romeo replies, "that the prayer of his lips was, that they might do what hands do; that is, that they might kiss.M. MASON. [kissing her.] Our poet here, without doubt, copied from the mode of his own time; and kissing a lady in a publick assembly, we may conclude, was not thought indecorous. In King Henry VIII. he in like manner makes Lord Sands kiss Anne Boleyn. MALONE. 9-towards.] i. e. Ready, at hand. A banquet corresponded with our desert, and was a collation of fruit, wine, &c. Jul. Come hither, nurse: What is yon gentleman? Jul. What's he, that now is going out of door? 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; Jul. My only love sprung from my only hate! Nurse. What's this? what's this? Of one I danc'd withal. A rhyme I learn'd even now [One calls within, JULIET. Anon, anon: Come, let's away; the strangers are all gone. [Exeunt. Enter CHORUS. Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; Now Romeo is belov'd, and loves again, To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear; [Exit. That fair,] Fair, it has been already observed, was formerly used as a substantive, and was synonymous to beauty. - MALONE. ACT II. SCENE I.-An open Place adjoining Capulet's Garden. Enter ROMEO. Rom. Can I go forward, when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy center out. [He climbs the Wall, and leaps down within it. Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO. Ben. Romeo! my cousin Romeo! Mer. He is wise; And, on my life, hath stolen him home to bed. Ben. He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall: Call, good Mercutio. Mer. Nay, I'll conjure too. That in thy likeness thou appear to us. Ben. An if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him. - Adam Cupid,] Alluding to the famous archer Adam Bell.-REED. When king Cophetua, &c.] Alluding to an old ballad preserved in the first volume of Dr. Percy's Reliques of ancient English Poetry.-STEEVENS. The ape is dead,] This phrase appears to have been frequently applied to young men, in our author's time, without any reference to the mimickry of that animal. It was an expression of tenderness, like poor fool. MALONE. By her high forehead,] A high forehead was in Shakspeare's time thought eminently beautiful.-MALONE. Mer. This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him Ben. Come, he hath hid himself among those trees, Mer. If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. Now will he sit under a medlar tree, And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit, As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.- Come, shall we go? Ben. Go, then; for 'tis in vain To seek him here, that means not to be found. [Exeunt. SCENE II. Capulet's Garden. Enter ROMEO. Rom. He jests at scars, that never felt a wound. [JULIET appears above, at a Window. But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, -humorous-] i. e. Moist, humid. It is used in the same sense by other *writers of Shakspeare's time. z He jests at scars,] That is, Mercutio jests, whom he has overheard.JOHNSON. a Be not her maid,] Be not a votary to the moon, to Diana-JOHNSON. |