The noble Paris and true Romeo dead. She wakes, and I entreated her come forth, 260 And bear this work of heaven with patience: But then a noise did scare me from the tomb, And she too desperate would not go with me, But, as it seems, did violence on herself. All this I know; and to the marriage Her nurse is privy: and, if aught in this Miscarried by my fault, let my old life Be sacrificed some hour before his time Unto the rigor of severest law. Prince. We still have known thee for a holy man. 269 Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this? Bal. I brought my master news of Juliet's death, And then in post he came from Mantua To this same place, to this same monument. If I departed not and left him there. Prince. Give me the letter; I will look on it. Where is the county's page, that raised the watch? Sirrah, what made your master in this place? Page. He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave; And bid me stand aloof, and so I did: Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb; And then I ran away to call the watch. 281 Prince. This letter doth make good the friar's words, Their course of love, the tidings of her death: Came to this vault to die and lie with Juliet. 290 And I, for winking at your discords too, Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd. Cap. O brother Montague, give me thy hand: This is my daughter's jointure, for no more Can I demand. Mon. But I can give thee more: Cap. As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie; Prince. A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun for sorrow will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd and some punished: 295. "Brace of kinsmen," Mercutio and Paris. Mercutio is expressly called the Prince's kinsman, in Act iii. sc. 1; and that Paris was also the Prince's kinsman, may be inferred from what Romeo says: "Let me peruse this face; Mercutio's kinsman, noble county Paris."-H. N. H. 305. "A glooming peace"; the quarto of 1597 reads, "A gloomy peace." To gloom is an ancient verb, used by Spenser and other old writers.-H. N. H. 308. This line hos reference to the poem from which the fable is For never was a story of more woe 31C [Exeunt. taken; in which the Nurse is banished for concealing the marriage; Romeo's servant set at liberty, because he had only acted in obedience to his master's orders; the Apothecary is hanged; while Friar Laurence was permitted to retire to a hermitage near Verona, where he ended his life in penitence and tranquillity.-H. N. H. GLOSSARY By ISRAEL GOllancz, M.A. A, one, the same; II. iv. 229. ABUSED, disfigured; IV. i. 29. AFEARD, afraid; II. ii. 139. AFFRAY, frighten; III. v. 33. AGAINST, in preparation of; III. AGATE-STONE, figures cut in the ALL ALONG, at your full length; ALL SO SOON, as soon; (all used AMBUSCADOES, ambuscades; I. iv. AMERCE, punish; III. i. 199. AN IF, if; V. i. 50. ANCIENT, old, aged; II. iii. 74. ANTIC FACE, quaint mask; I. v. BAKED MEATS, pastry; IV. iv. 5. BANDYING, contending, quarrel- BARE, lean, poor; V. i. 68. did bear; V. ii. 13. Bear a brain, have a good memory; I. iii. 29. BECOMED, becoming; IV. ii. 26. BEHOVEFUL, befitting, becoming; IV. iii. 8. BENT, inclination, disposition; II. ii. 143. BEPAINT, paint; II. ii. 86. BESCREEN D, Screened, hidden; II. ii. 52. BETOSSED, deeply agitated; V. iii. 76. BETTER TEMPER'D, of better qual ity; III. iii. 115. BILL, "a kind of pike or halberdt, formerly carried by the English infantry, and afterwards the usual weapon of watchmen"; I. i. 82. BLAZE, make known; III. iii. 151. BLAZON, trumpet forth; II. vi. 26. BRACE, Couple; V. iii. 295. BRIEF, briefly; III. iii. 174. BROAD GOOSE; "far and wide a b. g.," prob. far and wide abroad, a goose; (some lost allusion perhaps underlies the quibble); II. iv. 91. BROKEN, cracked; I. ii. 54. BROW, face, countenance; (Col lier MS. and Singer MS. "bow"); III. v. 20. BURN DAYLIGHT, "a proverbial expression used when candles are lighted in the day-time" (Steevens); hence, superfluous actions in general; here "waste time"; I. iv. 43. BUTT-SHAFT, "a kind of arrow used for shooting at butts; formed without a barb, so as to be easily extracted" (Nares); II. iv. 18. BY AND BY, directly; II. ii. 152. BY MY FAY, by my faith; (a slight oath); I. v. 130. BY MY TROTH, by my truth, on my word; II. iv. 129. BY THE ROOD, by the cross; (a slight oath); I. iii. 36. CAITIFF, wretched, miserable; V. plete master of all the laws of ceremony"; II. iv. 22. CARRY COALS, endure affronts; (the carriers of coal, prob. charcoal, were the lowest menials; cp. "blackguard," originally the attendants upon the royal household's progress); L. i. 1. CHAPLESS, without jaws; IV. i. 83. CHARGE, Weight; V. ii. 18. CHEERLY, cheerily; I. v. 18. CHEVERIL, the skin of the kid; II. iv. 92. CHINKS, a popular term for money; I. v. 121. CHOP-LOGIC, Sophist; III. v. 150. CIRCUMSTANCE, details; II. v. 36. CIVIL, Sober, grave; III. ii. 10. CLOSE, closely, very near; III. i. 41. CLOSED, enclosed; I. iv. 110. |