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Romeo and Juliet Delight see the bottom of the page for explanatory notes. Delight click here for even more notes and paraphrases. ACT II SCENE Two Capulet's orchard. [Enter ROMEO] ROMEO He jests at scars that never felt a wound. [JULIET appears above at a window] But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the eastward, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and impale the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she: Be non her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools practise wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, information technology is my beloved! ten O, that she knew she were! She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that? Her eye discourses; I volition respond it. I am too assuming, 'tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were in that location, they in her caput? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven 20 Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and recall information technology were not night. See, 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 again, brilliant affections! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my caput As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall dorsum to gaze on him 30 When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air. JULIET O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art yard Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if 1000 wilt non, be but sworn my dear, And I'll no longer exist a Capulet. ROMEO [Aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this? JULIET 'Tis merely thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? information technology is nor manus, nor human foot, 40 Nor arm, nor confront, nor whatever other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a proper name? that which nosotros call a rose By any other name would odour equally sweetness; And then Romeo would, were he not Romeo 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 Take all myself. ROMEO I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; 50 Henceforth I never will be Romeo. JULIET What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night So stumblest on my counsel? ROMEO By a proper noun I know not how to tell thee who I am: My name, dearest saint, is mean to myself, Because information technology is an enemy to thee; Had I information technology written, I would tear the word. JULIET My ears accept not notwithstanding drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance, nonetheless I know the sound: Art one thousand not Romeo and a Montague? lx ROMEO Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike. JULIET How camest one thousand hither, tell me, and wherefore? The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, And the place death, considering who thou 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 concur love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt; Therefore thy kinsmen are no allow to me. JULIET If they practise see thee, they will murder thee. lxx ROMEO Alack, there lies more than 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 globe they saw thee here. ROMEO I take night's cloak to hide me from their sight; And but k love me, let them discover me hither: My life were better concluded by their hate, Than decease prorogued, wanting of thy honey. JULIET By whose direction institute'st grand out this place? ROMEO By love, who first did prompt me to inquire; lxxx He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes. I am no pilot; yet, wert g as far As that vast shore wash'd with the uttermost sea, I would adventure for such merchandise. JULIET Thousand know'st the mask of night is on my face up, Else would a maiden chroma bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night Fain would I dwell on course, fain, fain deny What I accept spoke: but goodbye compliment! Dost thou dearest me? I know grand wilt say 'Ay,' xc And I will have thy word: yet if thou swear'st, M mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries Then say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully: Or if 1000 think'st I am too speedily won, I'll pout and exist perverse an say thee nay, So 1000 wilt woo; only else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior low-cal: Merely trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more than true 100 Than those that have more cunning to be foreign. I should take been more strange, I must confess, Simply that thousand overheard'st, ere I was ware, My true love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light beloved, Which the dark dark hath so discovered. ROMEO Lady, by yonder blest moon I swear That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops-- JULIET O, swear not past the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, 110 Lest that thy dearest testify likewise variable. ROMEO What shall I swear by? JULIET Do not swear at all; Or, if 1000 wilt, swear past thy gracious cocky, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee. ROMEO If my centre'southward dearest love-- JULIET Well, practice non swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-nighttime: It is besides rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Likewise similar the lightning, which doth finish to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweetness, good dark! 120 This bud of dearest, past summer's ripening jiff, May testify a admirable blossom when next we meet. Good dark, good night! equally sugariness repose and residual Come to thy middle as that within my breast! ROMEO O, wilt thou exit me and so unsatisfied? JULIET What satisfaction canst thou have to-dark? ROMEO The exchange of thy dearest'southward faithful vow for mine. JULIET I gave thee mine before thou didst request it: And withal I would it were to give again. 129 ROMEO Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love? JULIET But to be frank, and give it thee again. And yet I wish but for the thing I have: My bounty is equally boundless as the bounding main, My love equally deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. [Nurse calls within] I hear some noise inside; dear honey, adieu! Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be truthful. Stay simply a little, I volition come up once again. [Get out, higher up] ROMEO O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard. Being in night, all this is but a dream, 140 Too flattering-sweet to be substantial. [Re-enter JULIET, above] JULIET Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. If that thy bent of beloved exist honourable, Thy purpose marriage, ship me word to-morrow, By one that I'll procure to come to thee, Where and what time 1000 wilt perform the rite; And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay And follow thee my lord throughout the world. Nurse [Within] Madam! JULIET I come, anon.-- Merely if yard mean'st not well, 150 I do beseech thee-- Nurse [Within] Madam! JULIET By and past, I come up:-- To cease thy adapt, and leave me to my grief: To-morrow will I ship. ROMEO So thrive my soul-- JULIET A one thousand times good night! [Exit, above] ROMEO A thousand times the worse, to want thy lite. Dearest goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books, Only love from love, toward schoolhouse with heavy looks. [Retiring] [Re-enter JULIET, above] JULIET Hist! Romeo, hist! O, for a falconer's voice, To lure this tassel-gentle back again! 160 Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud; Else would I tear the cave where Repeat lies, And make her airy tongue more than hoarse than mine, With repetition of my Romeo'south name. ROMEO It is my soul that calls upon my name: How argent-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Similar softest music to attention ears! JULIET Romeo! ROMEO My dearest? JULIET At what o'clock to-morrow Shall I send to thee? ROMEO At the 60 minutes of 9. JULIET I volition not neglect: 'tis xx years till so. 170 I accept forgot why I did call thee back. ROMEO Let me stand here till thou recollect it. JULIET I shall forget, to accept thee still stand there, Remembering how I dear thy company. ROMEO And I'll still stay, to accept thee still forget, Forgetting any other home merely this. JULIET 'Tis about forenoon; I would have thee gone: And notwithstanding no further than a wanton'south bird; Who lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, 180 And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty. ROMEO I would I were thy bird. JULIET Sweetness, so would I: Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. Good nighttime, good night! parting is such sweetness sorrow, That I shall say skilful night till it be morrow. [Exit above] ROMEO Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! Would I were slumber and peace, so sweetness to rest! Hence volition I to my ghostly father's cell, His aid to crave, and my dear hap to tell. [Get out] Next: Romeo and Juliet, Act two, Scene three __________ Explanatory Notes for Human action 2, Scene 2 From Romeo and Juliet. Ed. K. Deighton. London: Macmillan. __________ Prologue 1. He jests ... wound, Mercutio, who never felt the wound of love, may well jest at the scars which Cupid's arrows have left in my eye. That this is not a full general, only a item, remark is, I think, proved by the answering rhyme, as Staunton has noticed. And equally neither the folios nor the quartos make any division of scene, such division, originally due to Rowe, seems clearly incorrect. 2. soft! he bids himself 'hush,' cautions himself to talk in a lower voice. 4. envious, jealous. seven. Be not her maid, no longer serve her, no longer keep a vow to alive unmarried; as Diana's votaries pledged themselves to practise. 8. Her vestal ... green, the life of chastity to which she binds her priestess is one of sickly, jaundiced, hue. In sick and greenish there is probably, as Delius suggests, an allusion to the "greenish-sickness" of which Shakespeare oft speaks, and which in three. 5. 157, below, Capulet applies as an epithet to Juliet in his anger at her refusal of Paris, "Out, you lot dark-green-sickness carrion! out, you luggage! You tallow-face up," — an ailment of languishing girls characterized past a pale complexion. The reading of the first quarto is pale for sick, and this is preferred by many editors. Collier would change sick into white, seeing in the line an allusion to the white and green livery formerly worn by the Court fools; only 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 exist obtained from the reading of the first quarto, pale, without the violent alter 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. x, "A vestal livery will I take me to, And never more have joy." 12. what of that? but that matters little. 13. discourses, is eloquent in its mere look. sixteen. some business, some individual affairs of their ain 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, round nearly the earth, which was the eye of the system, 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 earth 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 subsequently times the atmosphere was divided into three regions, upper, centre, and lower. Cp. also Haml. ii. 2. 509. 24, 5. O, that ... cheek, cp. Tennyson, The Miller'south Girl, 169-186. 28. winged messenger, angel. 29. white-upturned, turned upward in adoration so that the pupils are scarcely seen. 30. fall dorsum, stand back in awe, and also in order to get a clearer view. 31. lazy-pacing, slowly globe-trotting. Grant White compares Macb. i. 7. 21-5; 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. refuse, disown, disclaim; cp. T. C. iv. 5. 267, "Nosotros have had pelting wars, since you refused The Grecians' crusade." 37. speak at this, answer her without allowing her to go further, interrupt her at this signal. 39. Thou art ... Montague. Staunton explains "That is, as she later expresses it, you would withal retain all the perfections which ardorn you, were non chosen Montague"; so essentially Grant White, though Dyce calls such an caption "unintelligible." Others follow Malone in putting the comma after though, as used in the sense of notwithstanding, with the explanation that Juliet is simply endeavouring to account for Romeo'due south beingness affable and excellent though he is a Montague, to prove which she asserts that he merely bears the name, but has none of the qualities of that house. Diverse emendations have also been proposed, but Staunton's explanation seems to me quite satisfactory. 42. be another name, be somebody else in name than Montague. Lettsom objects that Shakespeare could not have written "be some other proper noun"; but after the expression "What's Montague?", where "Montague" is used equally though it were a thing, there seems no reason why nosotros should not have "be some other name." 46. owes, owns; every bit frequently in Elizabethan literature, the terminal due north of the M. Due east. owen, to pcssess, beingness dropped. The modernistic sense of the word 'to be in debt,' 'to be obliged,' comes from the sense of possessing another's property, but the word has no etymological connection with to 'own' = to possess; it existence from the A.South. agan, to have, while the latter is from the A.S. agnian, to appropriate, claim as ane'south own, from agn, contracted form of agen, 1'due south ain (Skeat, Ety. Dict.). 47. doff, put off; do off, as don, do on; dup, practise up; dout, do out. 48. for thy proper name, in exchange for your proper noun. 53. And so stumblest on my counsel, come up so unexpectedly upon my surreptitious thouglits; cp. M. N. D. i. i. 216, "Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweetness," i.e. confiding to each other our inmost thoughts. 53, four. By a name... am, if I could permit you know who I am without using a proper name, I would gladly practise then, for it is impossible for me to name myself without distressing you. 55. saint. Delius points out that this word recalls their start coming together when, equally a pilgrim, Romeo had thus greeted Juliet. 58. drunk, unconsciously acknowledging the avidity 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 do't; just information technology mislike'south 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 afterwards a flying from another spot; a perch is literally a rod, bar, then a bender 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 way and go on me out. 71. Alack, according to Skeat, either a abuse of 'ah! lord,' or, which seems more likely, from ah! and M. E. lak, loss, failure. 73. proof against, able to suffer, hold out confronting; meet notation on i. 1. 216. 76. but thou love me ... here, except, unless, you lot love me, I am quite willing that they should find me here and kill me; without your love, life to me is not worth living. 78. Than death ... love, than that my death should be delayed if I am to exist without your love; prorogued, the Lat. prorogare was to propose a farther extension of office, 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 take chances for, I would make my voyage in quest of, notwithstanding dandy the danger. 88. Fain ... course, gladly would I, if information technology were possible, stand up on ceremony with you, treat you with distant formality; Fain, properly an adjective. 89. but bye compliment, "simply abroad with formality and punctilio" (Staunton); I now cast such things to the winds. 93. laughs, good-humouredly disdains to punish them. Douce compares Marlowe's translation of Ovid'south Fine art of Beloved, i. 633, "For Jove himself sits in the azure skies, And laughs beneath at lover'south perjuries," from which he thinks that Shakespeare borrowed. 94. pronounce it faithfully, assure me of your dearest without calculation an oath to confirm your words. 97. So, provided that. 98. fond, foolishly loving; fond, originally fonned, the by participle of the verb fonnen, to act foolishly, from the substantive fon, a fool. 99. light, total of levity, wanton. 101. more cunning ... strange, more skill in affecting coyness. 104. passion, passionate confession; the word was formerly used of any stiff emotion. 106. Which the dark ... discovered, which (love) has been revealed to you past the darkness of the night whose office should exist to conceal; which you lot have discovered thanks to the darkness of the night. 110. circled, revolving; not, I think, 'round,' as Schmidt explains. 111. likewise, equally. 113. gracious, attractive, finding favour in my optics; cp. T. A. i. ane. 429, "if ever Tamora Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine." This is the reading of the showtime 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. Similar Romeo, i. iv. 106-xi, she has a presentiment of some evil befalling their plighted love. 118. unadvised, imprudent, formed without sufficient consideration. 121, 2. This bud of love ... meet, this new beloved of ours, cherished in our hearts, may expand into full growth by the time nosotros next see, as beneath the summer'southward warmth the bud expands into a beauteous blossom. as that ... chest, "as to that centre within my chest" (Delius). 126. satisfaction, Delius points out the double sense here of payment and condolement. 129. And yet ... once more, and yet I wish I had not given it, in gild that I might at present again take the joy of giving information technology. 131. frank, liberal, free of manus; cp. Lear, three. 4. 20, "Your old kind begetter, whose frank heart gave all." 132. the thing I have. sc. her own space love. 143. If that ... honourable, if your dear is honourable in its intentions; for that, as a conjunctional affix, see Abb. § 287. 145. procure to come, adjust to have sent. 146. the rite, sc. of marriage. 152. Past and by, in a infinitesimal, directly. 153. suit. Malone quotes from Brooke'due south poem, Romeus and Juliet, "and now your Juliet you beseekes To cease your sute, and suffer her to alive emong her likes." 154. Then thrive my soul — may my soul prosper (according as I mean well to you), the last words being cleaved off by Juliet'southward farewell. 156. A g ... light, in reply to Juliet's wish of good-night he says, nay, not proficient dark but bad night, night made a thousand times the worse by the absence of you who are its only light. 158. toward ... looks, sc. equally schoolboys go toward, etc. 159. Hist! Listen! 159, 60. O, for ... once again! would that I had a voice that would bring dorsum my gentle Romeo as surely equally the falconer's voice brings ack the tassel-gentle! "The tassel or tiercel (for so it should be spelled) is the male person of the gosshawk; and so called considering it is a tierce or tertiary less than the female person...This species of hawk had the epithet gentle annexed to it, from the ease with which it was tamed, and its attachment to human" (Steevens). "It appears," adds Malone, "that certain hawks were considered as appropriated to sure ranks. The tercel-gentle was appropriated to the prince, and thence was chosen by Juliet as an appellation for her dear Romeo." 161. Bondage ... aloud, one fettered, constrained by fear of being overheard, like me, is as much unable to call aloud as one whose voice 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, past compelling her to repeat my cries, make 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-sweet, in allusion to the sweet tone of bells made of silver. 167. attending, circumspect. 173. to have ... at that place, in order to keep y'all standing at that place. 175. to have ... forget, so that you may continue to forget. 176. Forgetting ... this, forgetting that I have whatever home but this, forgetting that this is not actually my abode. 178. a wanton's bird, the pet bird of a mischievous girl, a girl that loves to tease her pets. 180. gyves, chains, fetters. 182. And then loving-jealous ... liberty, and so fond of it and yet so jealous of its getting its liberty. 186. shall say good night, shall go on saying 'good night.' 188. then sweet to rest, having so sweetness a resting identify. 189. ghostly father, spiritual father; father, a title given to catholic priests. 190. my dear hap, the skillful fortune that has befallen me; hap, fortune, chance, accident, from which we become to 'happen' and 'happy.' How to cite the explanatory notes: Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Ed. Thousand. Deighton. London: Macmillan, 1916. Shakespeare Online. 20 Feb. 2013. < http://world wide web.shakespeare-online.com/plays/romeo_2_2.html >. How to cite the sidebar: Mabillard, Amanda. Notes on Shakespeare. 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