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Romeo and Juliet

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ACT 2 SCENE II Capulet'southward orchard.
[Enter ROMEO]
ROMEO He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
[JULIET appears higher up at a window]
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more than fair than she:
Exist non her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools exercise wear it; cast it off.
Information technology is my lady, O, it is my love! x
O, that she knew she were!
She speaks however she says nothing: what of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am also bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
Ii of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business concern, exercise entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her caput?
The effulgence of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven 20
Would through the airy region stream so brilliant
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
Meet, how she leans her cheek upon her manus!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!
JULIET Ay me!
ROMEO She speaks:
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to tonight, being o'er my head
Equally is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering optics
Of mortals that autumn back 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 thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer exist a Capulet.
ROMEO [Aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
JULIET 'Tis but thy proper name that is my enemy;
Thou fine art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? information technology is nor manus, nor pes, 40
Nor arm, nor face, nor whatever other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a proper noun? that which we phone call a rose
Past whatever other proper name would smell as sweet;
And so Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy proper name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
ROMEO I have thee at thy discussion:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; 50
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
JULIET What man fine 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 proper noun, love saint, is hateful to myself,
Because it is an enemy to thee;
Had I it written, I would tear the word.
JULIET My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
Of that natural language'south utterance, yet I know the sound:
Fine art 1000 not Romeo and a Montague? sixty
ROMEO Neither, off-white saint, if either thee dislike.
JULIET How camest thousand hither, tell me, and wherefore?
The orchard walls are high and difficult to climb,
And the place death, considering who thou fine art,
If whatever of my kinsmen notice thee here.
ROMEO With honey'southward low-cal wings did I o'er-perch these walls;
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love tin can exercise that dares honey attempt;
Therefore thy kinsmen are no permit to me.
JULIET If they do see thee, they will murder thee. seventy
ROMEO Alack, there lies more peril in thine centre
Than 20 of their swords: await thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.
JULIET I would not for the globe they saw thee hither.
ROMEO I have night's cloak to hibernate me from their sight;
And only thou love me, allow them discover me here:
My life were ameliorate concluded past their hate,
Than death prorogued, wanting of thy honey.
JULIET By whose direction establish'st 1000 out this place?
ROMEO By love, who outset did prompt me to enquire; 80
He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes.
I am no pilot; nonetheless, wert chiliad as far
As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest body of water,
I would take chances for such trade.
JULIET Thou know'st the mask of nighttime is on my face up,
Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
For that which one thousand hast heard me speak to-night
Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny
What I accept spoke: but farewell compliment!
Dost thou love me? I know grand wilt say 'Ay,' 90
And I will take thy word: still if thou swear'st,
Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries
Then say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,
If k dost dear, pronounce information technology faithfully:
Or if thou think'st I am as well quickly won,
I'll pout and exist perverse an say thee nay,
Then chiliad wilt woo; but else, not for the world.
In truth, off-white Montague, I am also fond,
And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light:
But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more than true 100
Than those that have more than cunning to exist strange.
I should have been more foreign, I must confess,
But that one thousand overheard'st, ere I was ware,
My true dear's passion: therefore pardon me,
And non impute this yielding to light dear,
Which the dark night hath so discovered.
ROMEO Lady, past yonder blessed moon I swear
That tips with silvery all these fruit-tree tops--
JULIET O, swear non past the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb, 110
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
ROMEO What shall I swear by?
JULIET Practice not swear at all;
Or, if thou wilt, swear past thy gracious cocky,
Which is the god of my idolatry,
And I'll believe thee.
ROMEO If my heart's dear beloved--
JULIET Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this contract to-nighttime:
It is likewise rash, besides unadvised, likewise sudden;
Too similar the lightning, which doth cease to exist
Ere 1 can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night! 120
This bud of love, by summertime's ripening jiff,
May prove a beauteous bloom when next we see.
Skillful nighttime, good dark! every bit sweet repose and residual
Come to thy heart equally that inside my breast!
ROMEO O, wilt thou go out me so unsatisfied?
JULIET What satisfaction canst thou have to-dark?
ROMEO The exchange of thy dearest's faithful vow for mine.
JULIET I gave thee mine before thou didst request it:
And still I would it were to requite again. 129
ROMEO Wouldst thou withdraw information technology? for what purpose, honey?
JULIET But to be frank, and requite it thee once again.
And even so I wish simply for the thing I have:
My bounty is as boundless as the bounding main,
My dearest equally deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are space.
[Nurse calls inside]
I hear some noise within; honey love, cheerio!
Anon, practiced nurse! Sweetness 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
As well flattering-sweet to be substantial.
[Re-enter JULIET, above]
JULIET Three words, love Romeo, and practiced night indeed.
If that thy aptitude of beloved be honourable,
Thy purpose marriage, send me discussion to-morrow,
By one that I'll procure to come to thee,
Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite;
And all my fortunes at thy pes I'll lay
And follow thee my lord throughout the world.
Nurse [Within] Madam!
JULIET I come up, betimes.-- But if thou mean'st non well, 150
I do beseech thee--
Nurse [Within] Madam!
JULIET Past and by, I come:--
To cease thy arrange, and leave me to my grief:
To-morrow will I send.
ROMEO So thrive my soul--
JULIET A thousand times good nighttime!
[Leave, above]
ROMEO A thousand times the worse, to desire thy lite.
Honey goes toward love, as schoolboys from
their books,
But love from dearest, 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 dorsum again! 160
Chains is hoarse, and may non speak aloud;
Else would I tear the cavern where Echo lies,
And brand her blusterous tongue more than hoarse than mine,
With repetition of my Romeo'southward proper noun.
ROMEO It is my soul that calls upon my proper name:
How silver-sweet audio lovers' tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears!
JULIET Romeo!
ROMEO My love?
JULIET At what o'clock to-morrow
Shall I send to thee?
ROMEO At the hour of ix.
JULIET I will not fail: 'tis xx years till then. 170
I accept forgot why I did phone call thee dorsum.
ROMEO Let me stand here till thou remember it.
JULIET I shall forget, to have thee still stand at that place,
Remembering how I dear thy visitor.
ROMEO And I'll still stay, to accept thee yet forget,
Forgetting any other home just this.
JULIET 'Tis almost morn; I would have thee gone:
And withal no farther than a wanton'southward 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 freedom.
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.
[Exit above]
ROMEO Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!
Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to residuum!
Hence volition I to my ghostly father'south cell,
His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.
[Exit]

Next: Romeo and Juliet, Human activity 2, Scene 3

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Explanatory Notes for Act 2, Scene 2
From Romeo and Juliet. Ed. K. Deighton. London: Macmillan.

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Prologue

i. He jests ... wound, Mercutio, who never felt the wound of honey, may well jest at the scars which Cupid's arrows have left in my heart. That this is not a general, but 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 wrong.

2. soft! he bids himself 'hush,' cautions himself to talk in a lower voice.

four. envious, jealous.

vii. Exist not her maid, no longer serve her, no longer keep a vow to live 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 green there is probably, as Delius suggests, an allusion to the "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 green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage! You tallow-face," — 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 sick into white, seeing in the line an innuendo to the white and green livery formerly worn by the Courtroom fools; but it seems unlikely that Shakespeare would use the word fools in this literal sense when referring to Juliet, while, every bit Grant White points out, if such an allusion were intended, it would be obtained from the reading of the first quarto, pale, without the vehement change to white; vestal livery. Vesta was the Roman goddess of the hearth, corresponding with the Greek Hestia, and her priestesses were vowed to a life of chastity and celibacy; cp. Per. iii. 4. ten, "A vestal livery will I have me to, And never more than have joy."

12. what of that? but that matters little.

thirteen. discourses, is eloquent in its mere look.

sixteen. some business, some private affairs of their own which would be hindered by their having to perform their nightly duty of lighting up the sky.

17. in their spheres. According to the Ptolemaic arrangement of astronomy, round well-nigh the world, which was the centre of the system, were ix 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 earth in twenty-four hours past the driving power, the Primum Mobile.

21. the airy region, the upper air; region, was originally a division of the sky marked out past the Roman augurs. In later times the atmosphere was divided into three regions, upper, center, and lower. Cp. as well 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 so that the pupils are scarcely seen.

30. fall dorsum, stand dorsum in awe, and also in order to get a clearer view.

31. lazy-pacing, slowly drifting. Grant White compares Macb. i. 7. 21-5; lazy-pacing is Pope's theorize for lasie pacing, of the get-go 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 rain wars, since y'all refused The Grecians' cause."

37. speak at this, answer her without allowing her to go further, interrupt her at this bespeak.

39. Thou art ... Montague. Staunton explains "That is, as she afterward expresses it, you would however retain all the perfections which ardorn you, were not called Montague"; and then substantially Grant White, though Dyce calls such an explanation "unintelligible." Others follow Malone in putting the comma after though, every bit used in the sense of however, with the explanation that Juliet is just endeavouring to account for Romeo's existence amiable and excellent though he is a Montague, to evidence which she asserts that he merely bears the name, but has none of the qualities of that business firm. Various emendations accept besides been proposed, but Staunton'southward explanation seems to me quite satisfactory.

42. be some other name, exist somebody else in proper name than Montague. Lettsom objects that Shakespeare could not take written "be another proper name"; but after the expression "What's Montague?", where "Montague" is used as though it were a affair, there seems no reason why we should not have "be some other proper name."

46. owes, owns; as frequently in Elizabethan literature, the terminal north of the Yard. E. owen, to pcssess, being dropped. The modern sense of the word 'to be in debt,' 'to be obliged,' comes from the sense of possessing some other's property, but the word has no etymological connection with to 'own' = to possess; it existence from the A.S. agan, to have, while the latter is from the A.South. agnian, to appropriate, merits as one's own, from agn, contracted form of agen, 1's own (Skeat, Ety. Dict.).

47. doff, put off; exercise off, every bit don, practise on; dup, do upward; dout, do out.

48. for thy name, in substitution for your proper noun.

53. Then stumblest on my counsel, come so unexpectedly upon my surreptitious thouglits; cp. M. Due north. D. i. 1. 216, "Elimination our bosoms of their counsel sugariness," i.due east. confiding to each other our inmost thoughts.

53, 4. By a proper noun... am, if I could let you know who I am without using a proper noun, I would gladly do and so, for it is impossible for me to name myself without pitiful you.

55. saint. Delius points out that this word recalls their first coming together when, every bit 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 exist unpleasant to your ears; dislike is actually impersonal, as in Oth. ii. 3. 49, "I'll exercise't; but it mislike's me."

64. And the identify death, and to venture here is to adventure your life.

66. o'er-perch these walls, fly over these walls and settle here, as a bird settles upon a branch after a flying 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 than normally used as = of the nature of.

69. are no let to me, are no hindrance to me, cannot bar my fashion and go on me out.

71. Alack, according to Skeat, either a abuse of 'ah! lord,' or, which seems more probable, from ah! and Chiliad. Due east. lak, loss, failure.

73. proof against, able to endure, hold out against; see note on i. 1. 216.

76. but chiliad dear me ... here, except, unless, you lot dear 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 expiry ... love, than that my death should be delayed if I am to be without your beloved; prorogued, the Lat. prorogare was to propose a further extension of office, lience to defer, though literally meaning merely to ask publicly, from pro-, publicly, and rogare, to ask.

81. counsel, advice.

83. vast shore. "Lat. vastus, empty, waste material" (Walker).

84. I would adventure for, I would make my voyage in quest of, notwithstanding great the danger.

88. Fain ... course, gladly would I, if information technology were possible, stand on anniversary with you, treat you with distant formality; Fain, properly an describing word.

89. but goodbye compliment, "but away with formality and punctilio" (Staunton); I now cast such things to the winds.

93. laughs, adept-humouredly disdains to punish them. Douce compares Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Art of Love, i. 633, "For Jove himself sits in the azure skies, And laughs below at lover'south perjuries," from which he thinks that Shakespeare borrowed.

94. pronounce information technology faithfully, assure me of your dear without calculation an oath to confirm your words.

97. 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. light, full 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 y'all by the darkness of the night whose office should be to muffle; which you have discovered thank you to the darkness of the night.

110. circled, revolving; non, I call back, 'round,' as Schmidt explains.

111. besides, equally.

113. gracious, attractive, finding favour in my eyes; cp. T. A. i. i. 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 take ... to-night, I experience no joy in now ratifying with oaths a contract betwixt 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 dear ... run into, this new beloved of ours, cherished in our hearts, may aggrandize into full growth by the time we next meet, as beneath the summer'due south warmth the bud expands into a beauteous blossom. every bit that ... breast, "as to that heart within my breast" (Delius).

126. satisfaction, Delius points out the double sense hither of payment and comfort.

129. And even so ... again, and all the same I wish I had non given it, in order that I might now once again have the joy of giving it.

131. frank, liberal, free of hand; cp. Lear, iii. iv. 20, "Your quondam kind father, whose frank centre gave all."

132. the affair 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, directly.

153. suit. Malone quotes from Brooke's poem, Romeus and Juliet, "and at present your Juliet you beseekes To cease your sute, and endure 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's farewell.

156. A yard ... light, in respond to Juliet's wish of proficient-night he says, nay, non adept night but bad night, dark fabricated a thousand times the worse by the absence of you who are its just light.

158. toward ... looks, sc. equally schoolboys become toward, etc.

159. Hist! Heed!

159, 60. O, for ... once more! would that I had a voice that would bring back my gentle Romeo as surely as the falconer'due south vocalism brings ack the tassel-gentle! "The tassel or tiercel (for so it should be spelled) is the male of the gosshawk; and then chosen 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 zipper to man" (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 past Juliet every bit an appellation for her beloved Romeo."

161. Bondage ... aloud, one fettered, constrained by fear of being overheard, like me, is as much unable to phone call aloud as one whose vocalization is stopped by hoarseness of the throat.

162. Else ... lies, otherwise past my loud cries I would rend the cavern 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 brand ... mine, and, by compelling her to echo my cries, make her hoarser than myself fifty-fifty. Dyce compares Comus, 208, "And airy tongues that syllable men'south names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses."

166. silver-sweet, in innuendo to the sweet tone of bells made of silver.

167. attention, attentive.

173. to have ... in that location, in order to keep you standing there.

175. to accept ... forget, so that you may proceed to forget.

176. Forgetting ... this, forgetting that I take whatsoever habitation just this, forgetting that this is not really my home.

178. a wanton'southward bird, the pet bird of a mischievous girl, a girl that loves to tease her pets.

180. gyves, chains, fetters.

182. So loving-jealous ... liberty, so fond of it and yet so jealous of its getting its liberty.

186. shall say good night, shall continue saying 'good night.'

188. so sweet to rest, having so sweetness a resting place.

189. ghostly father, spiritual father; father, a title given to catholic priests.

190. my dear hap, the good fortune that has befallen me; hap, fortune, chance, accident, from which nosotros get to 'happen' and 'happy.'

How to cite the explanatory notes:
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Ed. K. Deighton. London: Macmillan, 1916. Shakespeare Online. xx Feb. 2013. < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/romeo_2_2.html >.

How to cite the sidebar:
Mabillard, Amanda. Notes on Shakespeare. Shakespeare Online. 20 Feb. 2013. < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/romeo_2_2.html >.

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microsoft images Juliet appears above at a window (phase direction). Shakespeare did not include this stage direction and information technology is not in Q1 or the Offset Page. Information technology was added in the 17th century and has remained ever since, although some editors choose to identify the direction right after Romeo'due south 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 dear" (10).
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ill and green ] The phrase sick and green refers to the anaemic status known as chlorosis, or green sickness. The goddess Diana (the moon personified) is sickly stake and envious of Juliet'due south beauty (half-dozen). Juliet, likewise, every bit a follower of Diana (i.due east,. a virgin) is looking quite sickly pale herself.

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