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Adjacent: Romeo and Juliet, Act two, Scene 3 __________ Explanatory Notes for Act 2, Scene 2 __________ Prologue 1. He jests ... wound, Mercutio, who never felt the wound of beloved, may well jest at the scars which Cupid's arrows have left in my center. That this is not a general, but a item, remark is, I think, proved past the answering rhyme, as Staunton has noticed. And as neither the folios nor the quartos make whatever division of scene, such partition, originally due to Rowe, seems clearly wrong. 2. soft! he bids himself 'hush,' cautions himself to talk in a lower vocalisation. 4. envious, jealous. 7. Be non her maid, no longer serve her, no longer keep a vow to alive unmarried; as Diana'southward votaries pledged themselves to do. eight. Her vestal ... green, the life of chastity to which she binds her priestess is 1 of sickly, jaundiced, hue. In sick and light-green there is probably, as Delius suggests, an innuendo to the "green-sickness" of which Shakespeare often speaks, and which in iii. 5. 157, beneath, Capulet applies as an epithet to Juliet in his anger at her refusal of Paris, "Out, yous dark-green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage! Y'all tallow-face," — an ailment of languishing girls characterized by a pale complexion. The reading of the first quarto is pale for sick, and this is preferred by many editors. Collier would change ill into white, seeing in the line an allusion to the white and green livery formerly worn past the Courtroom fools; but it seems unlikely that Shakespeare would apply the discussion fools in this literal sense when referring to Juliet, while, equally Grant White points out, if such an innuendo 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. 10, "A vestal livery will I accept me to, And never more than accept joy." 12. what of that? but that matters piddling. xiii. discourses, is eloquent in its mere wait. 16. some business organization, some private diplomacy 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 system of astronomy, round about the earth, which was the middle of the system, were nine 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 existence whirled round the earth in twenty-four hours by the driving power, the Primum Mobile. 21. the blusterous region, the upper air; region, was originally a partition of the sky marked out by the Roman augurs. In later times the temper was divided into three regions, upper, middle, and lower. Cp. also Haml. ii. 2. 509. 24, 5. O, that ... cheek, cp. Tennyson, The Miller's Daughter, 169-186. 28. winged messenger, angel. 29. white-upturned, turned upward in admiration so that the pupils are scarcely seen. 30. fall back, stand back in awe, and also in order to go a clearer view. 31. lazy-pacing, slowly globe-trotting. Grant White compares Macb. i. seven. 21-v; lazy-pacing is Pope's theorize for lasie pacing, of the start quarto; the remaining quartos and the folios requite lazie, or lazy, puffing. 34. refuse, disown, disclaim; cp. T. C. iv. five. 267, "We have had pelting wars, since you refused The Grecians' cause." 37. speak at this, answer her without allowing her to go further, interrupt her at this bespeak. 39. G art ... Montague. Staunton explains "That is, as she subsequently expresses it, yous would still retain all the perfections which ardorn you, were not chosen Montague"; then substantially Grant White, though Dyce calls such an caption "unintelligible." Others follow Malone in putting the comma after though, every bit used in the sense of all the same, with the explanation that Juliet is but endeavouring to account for Romeo's being amiable 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, only Staunton'south caption seems to me quite satisfactory. 42. be some other name, be somebody else in name than Montague. Lettsom objects that Shakespeare could not accept written "be some other name"; only after the expression "What's Montague?", where "Montague" is used as though it were a thing, in that location seems no reason why we should non have "be another name." 46. owes, owns; as ofttimes in Elizabethan literature, the final n of the M. Eastward. owen, to pcssess, existence dropped. The mod 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 being from the A.Southward. agan, to have, while the latter is from the A.S. agnian, to appropriate, claim as i'south own, from agn, contracted grade of agen, one'south own (Skeat, Ety. Dict.). 47. doff, put off; do off, as don, practise on; dup, do up; dout, do out. 48. for thy name, in exchange for your proper noun. 53. So stumblest on my counsel, come up then unexpectedly upon my undercover thouglits; cp. M. N. D. i. ane. 216, "Elimination our bosoms of their counsel sweet," i.e. confiding to each other our inmost thoughts. 53, 4. Past a name... am, if I could let you know who I am without using a name, I would gladly practice so, for it is impossible for me to name myself without distressing y'all. 55. saint. Delius points out that this word recalls their offset meeting when, as 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. iii. 49, "I'll do't; but it mislike's me." 64. And the place death, and to venture here is to risk your life. 66. o'er-perch these walls, wing over these walls and settle here, equally a bird settles upon a branch after a flight from another spot; a perch is literally a rod, bar, then a bough or twig on which a bird settles. 67. stony limits, limits formed of rock, i.e. walls; stony, more ordinarily used as = of the nature of. 69. are no permit to me, are no hindrance to me, cannot bar my way and keep me out. 71. Alack, according to Skeat, either a corruption of 'ah! lord,' or, which seems more than probable, from ah! and Grand. E. lak, loss, failure. 73. proof against, able to suffer, hold out against; come across note on i. one. 216. 76. just thou honey me ... here, except, unless, yous love me, I am quite willing that they should discover me here and impale me; without your beloved, life to me is not worth living. 78. Than death ... love, than that my death should exist delayed if I am to be without your beloved; prorogued, the Lat. prorogare was to advise a farther extension of part, lience to defer, though literally significant merely to enquire publicly, from pro-, publicly, and rogare, to ask. 81. counsel, advice. 83. vast shore. "Lat. vastus, empty, waste material" (Walker). 84. I would chance for, I would make my voyage in quest of, nonetheless groovy the danger. 88. Fain ... course, gladly would I, if information technology were possible, stand on ceremony with you, treat y'all with distant formality; Fain, properly an adjective. 89. but farewell compliment, "but away with formality and punctilio" (Staunton); I at present cast such things to the winds. 93. laughs, good-humouredly disdains to punish them. Douce compares Marlowe'due south 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 it faithfully, assure me of your love without adding an adjuration to confirm your words. 97. So, provided that. 98. fond, heedlessly loving; fond, originally fonned, the past participle of the verb fonnen, to act heedlessly, 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 whatever strong emotion. 106. Which the dark ... discovered, which (love) has been revealed to you by the darkness of the night whose function should be to conceal; which you take discovered thank you to the darkness of the night. 110. circled, revolving; not, I think, 'round,' as Schmidt explains. 111. as well, equally. 113. gracious, attractive, finding favour in my optics; cp. T. A. i. 1. 429, "if e'er Tamora Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine." This is the reading of the get-go 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 at present ratifying with oaths a contract between us. Like Romeo, i. 4. 106-xi, she has a presentiment of some evil befalling their plighted love. 118. unadvised, imprudent, formed without sufficient consideration. 121, ii. This bud of beloved ... meet, this new love of ours, cherished in our hearts, may expand into total growth by the time we next see, equally beneath the summer's 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 here of payment and condolement. 129. And yet ... again, and yet I wish I had non given it, in club that I might at present once more have the joy of giving it. 131. frank, liberal, gratuitous of hand; cp. Lear, 3. four. 20, "Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all." 132. the thing I take. sc. her own infinite love. 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, arrange to have sent. 146. the rite, sc. of union. 152. By and by, in a infinitesimal, direct. 153. suit. Malone quotes from Brooke's poem, Romeus and Juliet, "and now your Juliet yous 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 hateful well to you lot), the concluding words being broken off by Juliet'southward farewell. 156. A k ... lite, in answer to Juliet'south wish of skilful-dark he says, nay, not good night just bad dark, night fabricated a g times the worse by the absence of y'all who are its but light. 158. toward ... looks, sc. as schoolboys go toward, etc. 159. Hist! Listen! 159, 60. O, for ... again! would that I had a voice that would bring back my gentle Romeo as surely as the falconer'south 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 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). "It appears," adds Malone, "that certain hawks were considered every bit appropriated to certain ranks. The tercel-gentle was appropriated to the prince, and thence was chosen by Juliet as an appellation for her beloved Romeo." 161. Bondage ... aloud, one fettered, constrained past fear of being overheard, like me, is equally much unable to call aloud equally 1 whose vocalism is stopped by hoarseness of the throat. 162. Else ... lies, otherwise past my loud cries I would rend the cave in which Echo dwells; Repeat, 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 brand ... 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-sweetness, in allusion to the sweetness tone of bells made of silver. 167. attention, attentive. 173. to have ... there, in order to go along yous standing there. 175. to have ... forget, so that you may go on to forget. 176. Forgetting ... this, forgetting that I have whatever dwelling but this, forgetting that this is not actually my home. 178. a wanton'southward bird, the pet bird of a mischievous girl, a daughter that loves to tease her pets. 180. gyves, chains, fetters. 182. So loving-jealous ... liberty, and then fond of it and yet so jealous of its getting its liberty. 186. shall say skilful dark, shall continue maxim 'expert dark.' 188. then sweetness to rest, having so sweet a resting place. 189. ghostly father, spiritual father; father, a title given to catholic priests. 190. my dear hap, the adept fortune that has befallen me; hap, fortune, risk, blow, from which we 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 Starting time Folio. It was added in the 17th century and has remained ever since, although some editors cull to identify the management right later Romeo'south line "He jests at scars that never felt a wound" (one), while others insert it right before Romeo says "It is my lady, O it is my love" (10). 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