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Adjacent: Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 3 __________ Explanatory Notes for Act 2, Scene 2 __________ Prologue 1. 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 full general, but a particular, remark is, I recollect, proved past the answering rhyme, as Staunton has noticed. And every bit neither the folios nor the quartos brand any division of scene, such partition, originally due to Rowe, seems clearly wrong. ii. soft! he bids himself 'hush,' cautions himself to talk in a lower voice. 4. envious, jealous. vii. Be non her maid, no longer serve her, no longer proceed a vow to live single; every bit Diana's votaries pledged themselves to do. 8. Her vestal ... 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 iii. five. 157, below, Capulet applies every bit an epithet to Juliet in his anger at her refusal of Paris, "Out, you lot green-sickness carrion! out, yous baggage! You lot tallow-confront," — an ailment of languishing girls characterized by a stake complexion. The reading of the first quarto is pale for sick, and this is preferred by many editors. Collier would change sick into white, seeing in the line an allusion to the white and green livery formerly worn by the Court fools; just it seems unlikely that Shakespeare would apply the give-and-take fools in this literal sense when referring to Juliet, while, as Grant White points out, if such an allusion were intended, it would exist obtained from the reading of the first quarto, pale, without the trigger-happy alter 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. four. 10, "A vestal livery will I take me to, And never more accept joy." 12. what of that? but that matters little. thirteen. discourses, is eloquent in its mere look. 16. some business, some private affairs of their own which would exist hindered by their having to perform their nightly duty of lighting upwardly the sky. 17. in their spheres. According to the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, circular about the earth, which was the centre of the arrangement, 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 beingness whirled round the world in xx-four hours by the driving power, the Primum Mobile. 21. the airy region, the upper air; region, was originally a sectionalization of the sky marked out by the Roman augurs. In after times the atmosphere was divided into three regions, upper, heart, and lower. Cp. also Haml. ii. ii. 509. 24, v. O, that ... cheek, cp. Tennyson, The Miller'due south Girl, 169-186. 28. winged messenger, angel. 29. white-upturned, turned upwardly in adoration so that the pupils are scarcely seen. 30. fall back, stand back in awe, and also in society to get a clearer view. 31. lazy-pacing, slowly drifting. Grant White compares Macb. i. 7. 21-5; lazy-pacing is Pope's conjecture for lasie pacing, of the outset quarto; the remaining quartos and the folios give lazie, or lazy, puffing. 34. refuse, disown, disclaim; cp. T. C. iv. 5. 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 point. 39. Thou art ... Montague. Staunton explains "That is, as she afterwards expresses it, you would still retain all the perfections which ardorn you, were not chosen Montague"; and then essentially Grant White, though Dyce calls such an explanation "unintelligible." Others follow Malone in putting the comma after though, as used in the sense of however, with the explanation that Juliet is simply endeavouring to account for Romeo's being affable and splendid though he is a Montague, to prove which she asserts that he merely bears the name, merely has none of the qualities of that house. Diverse emendations have as well been proposed, but Staunton's explanation seems to me quite satisfactory. 42. be some other name, be somebody else in proper noun than Montague. Lettsom objects that Shakespeare could non have written "be some other proper noun"; merely after the expression "What'southward Montague?", where "Montague" is used as though it were a thing, in that location seems no reason why we should not have "be another proper noun." 46. owes, owns; as often in Elizabethan literature, the terminal due north of the M. 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 another's property, but the word has no etymological connection with to 'own' = to possess; it being from the A.S. agan, to take, while the latter is from the A.Due south. agnian, to appropriate, claim every bit one's own, from agn, contracted course of agen, ane's own (Skeat, Ety. Dict.). 47. doff, put off; do off, as don, practice on; dup, do upwardly; dout, do out. 48. for thy name, in exchange for your name. 53. So stumblest on my counsel, come up so unexpectedly upon my secret thouglits; cp. M. N. D. i. i. 216, "Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet," i.eastward. confiding to each other our inmost thoughts. 53, 4. Past a name... am, if I could let you lot know who I am without using a proper noun, I would gladly exercise so, for it is incommunicable for me to name myself without lamentable you. 55. saint. Delius points out that this discussion recalls their first meeting when, as a pilgrim, Romeo had thus greeted Juliet. 58. boozer, 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. 2. 3. 49, "I'll do't; but information technology mislike'due south 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, every bit a bird settles upon a co-operative after a flying 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 stone, 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, co-ordinate to Skeat, either a abuse of 'ah! lord,' or, which seems more likely, from ah! and Yard. E. lak, loss, failure. 73. proof against, able to endure, hold out against; see annotation on i. i. 216. 76. but grand love me ... here, except, unless, you love me, I am quite willing that they should find me here and impale me; without your love, life to me is not worth living. 78. Than expiry ... love, than that my death should exist delayed if I am to be without your love; prorogued, the Lat. prorogare was to suggest a further extension of office, lience to defer, though literally pregnant only to ask publicly, from pro-, publicly, and rogare, to ask. 81. counsel, advice. 83. vast shore. "Lat. vastus, empty, waste product" (Walker). 84. I would run a risk for, I would make my voyage in quest of, even so dandy the danger. 88. Fain ... grade, gladly would I, if information technology were possible, stand on ceremony with you lot, care for you with afar formality; Fain, properly an adjective. 89. merely good day compliment, "just 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's translation of Ovid's Art of Dear, 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 dearest without adding an oath to confirm your words. 97. So, provided that. 98. fond, foolishly loving; fond, originally fonned, the past participle of the verb fonnen, to act heedlessly, from the substantive fon, a fool. 99. light, full of levity, wanton. 101. more cunning ... foreign, more skill in affecting coyness. 104. passion, passionate confession; the word was formerly used of any stiff emotion. 106. Which the dark ... discovered, which (dear) has been revealed to you past the darkness of the nighttime whose office should be to muffle; which you lot take discovered thanks to the darkness of the dark. 110. circled, revolving; not, I remember, 'round,' as Schmidt explains. 111. likewise, equally. 113. gracious, attractive, finding favour in my eyes; cp. T. A. i. 1. 429, "if always Tamora Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine." This is the reading of the first quarto, the other quondam copies giving glorious, which Grant White thinks more than 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 united states. Similar Romeo, i. 4. 106-xi, she has a presentiment of some evil befalling their plighted honey. 118. unadvised, imprudent, formed without sufficient consideration. 121, 2. This bud of love ... run into, this new love of ours, cherished in our hearts, may aggrandize into full growth by the time we next meet, every bit below the summer's warmth the bud expands into a beauteous blossom. as that ... breast, "as to that heart inside my breast" (Delius). 126. satisfaction, Delius points out the double sense here of payment and comfort. 129. And yet ... again, and yet I wish I had not given it, in order that I might now over again have the joy of giving information technology. 131. frank, liberal, free of hand; cp. Lear, iii. 4. 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 accept sent. 146. the rite, sc. of marriage. 152. By and by, in a minute, straight. 153. suit. Malone quotes from Brooke's poem, Romeus and Juliet, "and now your Juliet you beseekes To cease your sute, and suffer her to live emong her likes." 154. Then thrive my soul — may my soul prosper (according as I mean well to you), the concluding words beingness broken off by Juliet'southward farewell. 156. A yard ... low-cal, in answer to Juliet's wish of proficient-nighttime he says, nay, non proficient night simply bad night, night made a one thousand times the worse by the absence of you who are its just 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 dorsum my gentle Romeo as surely as the falconer's voice brings ack the tassel-gentle! "The tassel or tiercel (for so it should be spelled) is the male of the gosshawk; so called considering information technology 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 human being" (Steevens). "It appears," adds Malone, "that sure hawks were considered equally appropriated to sure 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 beingness overheard, like me, is as much unable to call aloud as one whose voice is stopped by hoarseness of the throat. 162. Else ... lies, otherwise by my loud cries I would rend the cave in which Echo dwells; Echo, an Oread who by Juno was inverse into a being 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, brand 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. argent-sugariness, in allusion to the sweet tone of bells made of silver. 167. attending, attentive. 173. to have ... in that location, in order to keep you standing there. 175. to have ... forget, so that you lot may go on to forget. 176. Forgetting ... this, forgetting that I have any home only this, forgetting that this is not actually my habitation. 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 ... freedom, so addicted of it and nonetheless so jealous of its getting its liberty. 186. shall say good night, shall go on saying 'good night.' 188. so sugariness to rest, having and then sweet a resting place. 189. ghostly father, spiritual father; begetter, a championship given to catholic priests. 190. my dear hap, the good fortune that has befallen me; hap, fortune, chance, accident, from which we get to 'happen' and 'happy.' How to cite the explanatory notes: ______ Even more than... | Notes on Romeo and Juliet Juliet appears above at a window (stage direction). Shakespeare did not include this phase direction and it is not in Q1 or the First Folio. 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