Its That Time Again Broken Bells
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Next: Romeo and Juliet, Human activity 2, Scene 3 __________ Explanatory Notes for Act 2, Scene 2 __________ 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: ______ Even more... Daily Life in Shakespeare'southward London Games in Shakespeare's England [A-L] Queen Elizabeth: Shakespeare'southward Patron Ben Jonson and the Turn down of the Drama Alchemy and Star divination in Shakespeare'due south Day | Notes on Romeo and JulietJuliet 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. 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