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Next: Romeo and Juliet, Deed 2, Scene 3 __________ Explanatory Notes for Human action ii, Scene 2 __________ 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 heart. That this is not a general, just a particular, remark is, I call back, proved by the answering rhyme, equally Staunton has noticed. And as neither the folios nor the quartos make whatsoever partitioning of scene, such sectionalization, originally due to Rowe, seems clearly wrong. ii. soft! he bids himself 'hush,' cautions himself to talk in a lower voice. 4. envious, jealous. 7. Be not her maid, no longer serve her, no longer keep a vow to live unmarried; as Diana'southward votaries pledged themselves to do. 8. Her vestal ... dark-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 "green-sickness" of which Shakespeare oftentimes speaks, and which in 3. v. 157, below, Capulet applies as an epithet to Juliet in his anger at her refusal of Paris, "Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, y'all luggage! You tallow-face," — an ailment of languishing girls characterized by a stake complexion. The reading of the first quarto is stake for sick, and this is preferred by many editors. Collier would change sick into white, seeing in the line an innuendo to the white and light-green livery formerly worn by the Court fools; simply it seems unlikely that Shakespeare would utilise the word 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 start quarto, stake, 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. 10, "A vestal livery will I take me to, And never more have joy." 12. what of that? but that matters niggling. 13. discourses, is eloquent in its mere wait. sixteen. some business, some private affairs of their ain which would be hindered by their having to perform their nightly duty of lighting upwardly the sky. 17. in their spheres. According to the Ptolemaic organization of astronomy, round virtually the globe, which was the centre of the system, were nine hollow spheres, consisting of the vii planets, the fixed stars or empyrean, and the Primum Mobile; the spheres with the stars and planets in them existence whirled circular the earth in twenty-four hours past the driving power, the Primum Mobile. 21. the airy region, the upper air; region, was originally a partition of the sky marked out by the Roman augurs. In later times the atmosphere was divided into iii regions, upper, middle, and lower. Cp. also Haml. two. 2. 509. 24, 5. O, that ... cheek, cp. Tennyson, The Miller'south Daughter, 169-186. 28. winged messenger, angel. 29. white-upturned, turned up in adoration so that the pupils are scarcely seen. 30. autumn dorsum, stand up back in awe, and also in order to get a clearer view. 31. lazy-pacing, slowly drifting. Grant White compares Macb. i. seven. 21-5; 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. decline, disown, disclaim; cp. T. C. iv. five. 267, "Nosotros have had pelting wars, since you refused The Grecians' cause." 37. speak at this, respond her without allowing her to go further, interrupt her at this betoken. 39. Chiliad fine art ... Montague. Staunton explains "That is, equally she afterwards expresses it, yous would nonetheless retain all the perfections which ardorn you, were non called Montague"; and so substantially Grant White, though Dyce calls such an caption "unintelligible." Others follow Malone in putting the comma after though, as used in the sense of however, with the explanation that Juliet is but endeavouring to account for Romeo's existence amiable and excellent though he is a Montague, to testify which she asserts that he merely bears the proper noun, but has none of the qualities of that firm. Various emendations have also been proposed, merely Staunton's explanation seems to me quite satisfactory. 42. be some other name, be somebody else in proper name than Montague. Lettsom objects that Shakespeare could not accept written "be some other proper noun"; merely after the expression "What's Montague?", where "Montague" is used as though information technology were a thing, there seems no reason why we should non accept "be another name." 46. owes, owns; as often in Elizabethan literature, the concluding due north of the M. E. owen, to pcssess, being dropped. The modern sense of the discussion 'to be in debt,' 'to be obliged,' comes from the sense of possessing another's property, merely the discussion has no etymological connection with to 'ain' = to possess; it being from the A.Southward. agan, to accept, while the latter is from the A.Due south. agnian, to appropriate, claim equally one's own, from agn, contracted form of agen, one'south ain (Skeat, Ety. Dict.). 47. doff, put off; exercise off, as don, do on; dup, practice upwards; dout, practice out. 48. for thy name, in exchange for your proper name. 53. So stumblest on my counsel, come up so unexpectedly upon my hole-and-corner thouglits; cp. M. N. D. i. 1. 216, "Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweetness," i.e. confiding to each other our inmost thoughts. 53, four. By a proper noun... am, if I could let y'all know who I am without using a name, I would gladly exercise so, for information technology is impossible for me to proper name myself without lamentable you. 55. saint. Delius points out that this word recalls their starting time meeting 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. three. 49, "I'll practise't; just information technology 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 co-operative after a flight 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 rock, 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 keep me out. 71. Alack, according to Skeat, either a abuse of 'ah! lord,' or, which seems more probable, from ah! and G. E. lak, loss, failure. 73. proof against, able to endure, hold out against; see annotation on i. 1. 216. 76. but chiliad dear me ... here, except, unless, you love me, I am quite willing that they should find me hither and kill me; without your love, life to me is non 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 further extension of office, lience to defer, though literally meaning but to ask publicly, from pro-, publicly, and rogare, to ask. 81. counsel, communication. 83. vast shore. "Lat. vastus, empty, waste product" (Walker). 84. I would adventure for, I would brand my voyage in quest of, however bully the danger. 88. Fain ... grade, gladly would I, if information technology were possible, stand up on anniversary with you, treat you lot with afar formality; Fain, properly an adjective. 89. merely farewell compliment, "but away with formality and punctilio" (Staunton); I now cast such things to the winds. 93. laughs, proficient-humouredly disdains to punish them. Douce compares Marlowe'southward translation of Ovid's Art of Beloved, i. 633, "For Jove himself sits in the azure skies, And laughs below at lover's perjuries," from which he thinks that Shakespeare borrowed. 94. pronounce information technology faithfully, assure me of your love without calculation an oath to confirm your words. 97. Then, provided that. 98. addicted, foolishly loving; addicted, originally fonned, the past participle of the verb fonnen, to deed foolishly, from the substantive fon, a fool. 99. light, total of levity, wanton. 101. more than cunning ... foreign, more than skill in affecting coyness. 104. passion, passionate confession; the word was formerly used of any strong emotion. 106. Which the night ... discovered, which (love) has been revealed to you by the darkness of the night whose office should be to conceal; which you have discovered thanks to the darkness of the dark. 110. circled, revolving; not, I think, 'round,' equally 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 optics of thine." This is the reading of the beginning 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. four. 106-11, she has a presentiment of some evil befalling their plighted love. 118. unadvised, imprudent, formed without sufficient consideration. 121, two. This bud of love ... meet, this new love of ours, cherished in our hearts, may expand into full growth by the fourth dimension we next run across, as beneath the summer'due south warmth the bud expands into a beauteous blossom. as that ... breast, "as to that center within my chest" (Delius). 126. satisfaction, Delius points out the double sense here of payment and comfort. 129. And however ... once more, and notwithstanding I wish I had not given information technology, in social club that I might now again take the joy of giving it. 131. frank, liberal, gratis of hand; cp. Lear, iii. 4. 20, "Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all." 132. the thing I have. sc. her own infinite honey. 143. If that ... honourable, if your love is honourable in its intentions; for that, as a conjunctional braze, meet Abb. § 287. 145. procure to come, accommodate to take sent. 146. the rite, sc. of spousal relationship. 152. By and past, in a infinitesimal, directly. 153. conform. Malone quotes from Brooke's poem, Romeus and Juliet, "and now your Juliet y'all beseekes To terminate your sute, and suffer her to live emong her likes." 154. So thrive my soul — may my soul prosper (co-ordinate as I hateful well to yous), the final words being broken off by Juliet's farewell. 156. A thousand ... light, in answer to Juliet's wish of good-nighttime he says, nay, not good nighttime simply bad night, nighttime made a yard times the worse by the absence of you lot who are its only low-cal. 158. toward ... looks, sc. as schoolboys become toward, etc. 159. Hist! Heed! 159, 60. O, for ... again! would that I had a voice that would bring dorsum my gentle Romeo as surely as the falconer'due south vocalism brings ack the tassel-gentle! "The tassel or tiercel (for and so it should be spelled) is the male person of the gosshawk; so called because it is a tierce or third 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 man" (Steevens). "Information technology appears," adds Malone, "that sure hawks were considered as appropriated to sure ranks. The tercel-gentle was appropriated to the prince, and thence was called by Juliet as an appellation for her dear Romeo." 161. Bondage ... aloud, i fettered, constrained past fear of being overheard, like me, is as much unable to call aloud as one whose voice is stopped by hoarseness of the pharynx. 162. Else ... lies, otherwise by my loud cries I would rend the cave in which Repeat dwells; Echo, an Oread who by Juno was changed into a beingness neither able to speak until somebody had spoken, nor to be silent when anybody had spoken. 163. And make ... mine, and, by 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, attentive. 173. to have ... in that location, in club to continue you standing in that location. 175. to have ... forget, so that y'all may keep to forget. 176. Forgetting ... this, forgetting that I have any home but this, forgetting that this is not really my dwelling. 178. a wanton'southward bird, the pet bird of a mischievous girl, a girl that loves to tease her pets. 180. gyves, bondage, fetters. 182. And so loving-jealous ... liberty, and then fond of it and all the same then jealous of its getting its liberty. 186. shall say expert night, shall go along saying 'good night.' 188. so sugariness to residue, having and so sweet a resting place. 189. ghostly begetter, spiritual father; father, a championship given to catholic priests. 190. my dear hap, the good fortune that has befallen me; hap, fortune, chance, blow, from which nosotros become to 'happen' and 'happy.' How to cite the explanatory notes: ______ Even more... | Notes on Romeo and Juliet Juliet appears above at a window (stage direction). Shakespeare did not include this stage direction and information technology is not in Q1 or the First Folio. 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