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Romeo and Juliet Delight see the lesser of the page for explanatory notes. Please click here for even more notes and paraphrases. Human activity II SCENE Two Capulet's orchard. [Enter ROMEO] ROMEO He jests at scars that never felt a wound. [JULIET appears above at a window] But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the due east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair dominicus, and impale the envious moon, Who is already ill and pale with grief, That one thousand her maid fine art far more than fair than she: Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and dark-green And none but fools do clothing it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my honey! ten O, that she knew she were! She speaks nevertheless she says nothing: what of that? Her middle discourses; I will answer it. I am also assuming, 'tis not to me she speaks: 2 of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, practise entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were in that location, they in her head? The effulgence of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven 20 Would through the airy region stream so brilliant That birds would sing and retrieve information technology were not nighttime. See, how she leans her cheek upon her mitt! O, that I were a glove upon that mitt, That I might bear upon that cheek! JULIET Ay me! ROMEO She speaks: O, speak again, brilliant angel! for thousand fine art As glorious to this dark, existence o'er my caput Equally is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him 30 When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air. JULIET O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore fine art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet. ROMEO [Bated] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this? JULIET 'Tis simply thy proper name that is my enemy; Chiliad art thyself, though non a Montague. What's Montague? information technology is nor mitt, nor human foot, 40 Nor arm, nor confront, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other proper name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose By whatsoever other name would smell every bit sweetness; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that championship. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself. ROMEO I accept thee at thy word: Call me merely love, and I'll be new baptized; fifty Henceforth I never will be Romeo. JULIET What homo fine art thou that thus bescreen'd in night So stumblest on my counsel? ROMEO Past a name I know not how to tell thee who I am: My proper noun, dear saint, is hateful to myself, Because it is an enemy to thee; Had I it written, I would tear the give-and-take. JULIET My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance, however I know the sound: Art grand non Romeo and a Montague? 60 ROMEO Neither, off-white saint, if either thee dislike. JULIET How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, And the identify death, considering who thou art, If whatever of my kinsmen notice thee here. ROMEO With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold dear out, And what dearest can practice that dares beloved attempt; Therefore thy kinsmen are no allow to me. JULIET If they do see thee, they will murder thee. 70 ROMEO Alack, there lies more peril in thine heart Than twenty of their swords: await thou but sweet, And I am proof confronting their enmity. JULIET I would non for the globe they saw thee here. ROMEO I accept night's cloak to hide me from their sight; And only thou dearest me, let them find me here: My life were better ended by their hate, Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love. JULIET By whose management found'st thou out this place? ROMEO By beloved, who commencement did prompt me to ask; 80 He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes. I am no pilot; yet, wert thou equally far As that vast shore launder'd with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such trade. JULIET Yard know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which yard hast heard me speak to-dark Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I take spoke: only farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' ninety And I will accept thy word: yet if g swear'st, K mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries So say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully: Or if k think'st I am also quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay, And then thou wilt woo; but else, non for the earth. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore grand mayst think my 'havior lite: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more truthful 100 Than those that have more cunning to be strange. I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that g overheard'st, ere I was ware, My truthful dear's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to calorie-free love, Which the nighttime night hath and so discovered. ROMEO Lady, past yonder blessed moon I swear That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops-- JULIET O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, 110 Lest that thy love prove besides variable. ROMEO What shall I swear by? JULIET Do not swear at all; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious cocky, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee. ROMEO If my heart'southward love love-- JULIET Well, exercise non swear: although I joy in thee, I accept no joy of this contract to-night: Information technology is likewise rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too similar the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweetness, good dark! 120 This bud of love, by summertime's ripening breath, May prove a admirable bloom when next we come across. Good night, practiced night! every bit sweet repose and residue Come to thy heart as that within my breast! ROMEO O, wilt thou leave me and so unsatisfied? JULIET What satisfaction canst m have to-night? ROMEO The substitution of thy beloved'south true-blue vow for mine. JULIET I gave thee mine before thou didst request it: And yet I would information technology were to requite again. 129 ROMEO Wouldst chiliad withdraw it? for what purpose, love? JULIET Merely to be frank, and give it thee again. And yet I wish but for the matter I take: My bounty is every bit boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I accept, for both are infinite. [Nurse calls within] I hear some noise inside; dear love, cheerio! Betimes, good nurse! Sweet Montague, exist true. Stay but a piffling, I will come once again. [Go out, in a higher place] ROMEO O blessed, blest nighttime! I am afeard. Existence in nighttime, all this is but a dream, 140 Also flattering-sweet to be substantial. [Re-enter JULIET, in a higher place] JULIET Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. If that thy aptitude of love be honourable, Thy purpose marriage, transport me discussion to-morrow, By 1 that I'll procure to come to thee, Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite; And all my fortunes at thy human foot I'll lay And follow thee my lord throughout the world. Nurse [Within] Madam! JULIET I come, anon.-- But if thou mean'st not well, 150 I do beseech thee-- Nurse [Within] Madam! JULIET By and by, I come:-- To cease thy accommodate, and leave me to my grief: To-morrow will I send. ROMEO And so thrive my soul-- JULIET A k times good night! [Exit, above] ROMEO A thousand times the worse, to want thy low-cal. Dearest goes toward honey, as schoolboys from their books, Simply honey from love, toward school with heavy looks. [Retiring] [Re-enter JULIET, above] JULIET Hist! Romeo, hist! O, for a falconer's voice, To lure this tassel-gentle back again! 160 Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud; Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies, And make her airy natural language more hoarse than mine, With repetition of my Romeo's name. ROMEO It is my soul that calls upon my name: How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears! JULIET Romeo! ROMEO My honey? JULIET At what o'clock to-morrow Shall I send to thee? ROMEO At the hour of nine. JULIET I will not fail: 'tis twenty years till so. 170 I have forgot why I did call thee dorsum. ROMEO Let me stand here till thou retrieve information technology. JULIET I shall forget, to have thee still stand there, Remembering how I love thy visitor. ROMEO And I'll still stay, to have thee withal forget, Forgetting whatever other home but this. JULIET 'Tis almost morning time; I would take thee gone: And yet no farther than a wanton'south bird; Who lets information technology hop a fiddling from her hand, Similar a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, 180 And with a silk thread plucks it dorsum once more, Then loving-jealous of his liberty. ROMEO I would I were thy bird. JULIET Sugariness, then would I: Yet I should impale thee with much cherishing. Good night, good nighttime! departing is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say skillful night till it exist morrow. [Exit above] ROMEO Slumber dwell upon thine optics, peace in thy chest! Would I were sleep and peace, and then sweet to rest! Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell, His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell. [Exit] Adjacent: Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene three __________ Explanatory Notes for Act 2, Scene 2 From Romeo and Juliet. Ed. K. Deighton. London: Macmillan. __________ Prologue 1. He jests ... wound, Mercutio, who never felt the wound of love, may well jest at the scars which Cupid's arrows accept left in my heart. That this is non a general, just a particular, remark is, I recall, proved by the answering rhyme, as Staunton has noticed. And as 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 vox. 4. envious, jealous. 7. Be not her maid, no longer serve her, no longer keep a vow to live single; as Diana's votaries pledged themselves to do. 8. Her vestal ... green, the life of chastity to which she binds her priestess is 1 of sickly, jaundiced, hue. In sick and green there is probably, as Delius suggests, an allusion to the "greenish-sickness" of which Shakespeare often speaks, and which in 3. 5. 157, below, Capulet applies as an epithet to Juliet in his anger at her refusal of Paris, "Out, you lot green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage! You tallow-face," — an ailment of languishing girls characterized by a pale complexion. The reading of the start quarto is pale for sick, and this is preferred past many editors. Collier would modify ill into white, seeing in the line an allusion to the white and light-green livery formerly worn past the Courtroom fools; merely it seems unlikely that Shakespeare would use the word fools in this literal sense when referring to Juliet, while, as Grant White points out, if such an innuendo were intended, information technology would be obtained from the reading of the showtime quarto, pale, without the violent 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 take me to, And never more have joy." 12. what of that? but that matters piddling. 13. discourses, is eloquent in its mere look. xvi. some business organization, some private affairs of their ain 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, circular near the earth, which was the centre of the organization, 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 existence whirled circular the earth in twenty-4 hours by the driving ability, the Primum Mobile. 21. the airy region, the upper air; region, was originally a partitioning of the sky marked out by the Roman augurs. In subsequently times the atmosphere was divided into three regions, upper, middle, and lower. Cp. also Haml. ii. 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 back, stand back in awe, and also in order to get a clearer view. 31. lazy-pacing, slowly globe-trotting. Grant White compares Macb. i. 7. 21-five; 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. refuse, disown, disclaim; cp. T. C. iv. five. 267, "We have had pelting wars, since you refused The Grecians' crusade." 37. speak at this, answer her without allowing her to go further, interrupt her at this point. 39. One thousand fine art ... Montague. Staunton explains "That is, as she afterward expresses it, you would withal retain all the perfections which ardorn y'all, were non called Montague"; and then substantially Grant White, though Dyce calls such an explanation "unintelligible." Others follow Malone in putting the comma after though, as used in the sense of withal, with the explanation that Juliet is simply endeavouring to business relationship for Romeo's being amiable and excellent though he is a Montague, to evidence which she asserts that he merely bears the proper name, but has none of the qualities of that house. Diverse emendations take also been proposed, but Staunton's explanation seems to me quite satisfactory. 42. be another proper noun, be somebody else in name than Montague. Lettsom objects that Shakespeare could non have written "exist some other name"; but later on the expression "What's Montague?", where "Montague" is used as though it were a thing, at that place seems no reason why we should non have "be some other name." 46. owes, owns; as frequently in Elizabethan literature, the final 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'due south property, only the give-and-take 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.Southward. agnian, to appropriate, claim as one's own, from agn, contracted class of agen, 1's own (Skeat, Ety. Dict.). 47. doff, put off; do off, as don, practise on; dup, do up; dout, practice out. 48. for thy name, in commutation for your proper name. 53. So stumblest on my counsel, come so unexpectedly upon my secret thouglits; cp. M. N. D. i. i. 216, "Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet," i.e. confiding to each other our inmost thoughts. 53, 4. By a name... am, if I could permit you know who I am without using a name, I would gladly do so, for information technology is impossible for me to proper name myself without distressing you. 55. saint. Delius points out that this give-and-take recalls their first meeting when, as a pilgrim, Romeo had thus greeted Juliet. 58. drunk, unconsciously acknowledging the ardor 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 do't; but information technology mislike's me." 64. And the identify 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 subsequently a flight from some other spot; a perch is literally a rod, bar, and then a bough 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 permit to me, are no hindrance to me, cannot bar my mode and keep me out. 71. Alack, according to Skeat, either a corruption of 'ah! lord,' or, which seems more likely, from ah! and M. E. lak, loss, failure. 73. proof against, able to endure, hold out confronting; see annotation on i. ane. 216. 76. but thou dear me ... here, except, unless, you love me, I am quite willing that they should find me hither and kill me; without your honey, life to me is non worth living. 78. Than death ... love, than that my death should exist delayed if I am to be without your love; prorogued, the Lat. prorogare was to propose a further extension of function, lience to defer, though literally significant only to ask publicly, from pro-, publicly, and rogare, to inquire. 81. counsel, advice. 83. vast shore. "Lat. vastus, empty, waste" (Walker). 84. I would take chances for, I would make my voyage in quest of, however bully the danger. 88. Fain ... form, gladly would I, if information technology were possible, stand up on ceremony with you, treat you with afar formality; Fain, properly an adjective. 89. merely farewell compliment, "just away with formality and punctilio" (Staunton); I now cast such things to the winds. 93. laughs, good-humouredly disdains to punish them. Douce compares Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Art of Dearest, 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 adding an oath to confirm your words. 97. So, provided that. 98. fond, heedlessly loving; fond, originally fonned, the by participle of the verb fonnen, to act heedlessly, from the substantive fon, a fool. 99. calorie-free, full of levity, wanton. 101. more than cunning ... strange, more skill in affecting coyness. 104. passion, passionate confession; the word was formerly used of whatsoever strong emotion. 106. Which the dark ... discovered, which (love) has been revealed to you by the darkness of the night whose part should be to conceal; which y'all have discovered thanks to the darkness of the night. 110. circled, revolving; not, I think, 'round,' as Schmidt explains. 111. likewise, equally. 113. gracious, attractive, finding favour in my optics; cp. T. A. i. i. 429, "if ever Tamora Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine." This is the reading of the starting time quarto, the other sometime 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 betwixt us. Similar Romeo, i. iv. 106-11, she has a presentiment of some evil befalling their plighted dearest. 118. unadvised, imprudent, formed without sufficient consideration. 121, 2. This bud of love ... run across, this new love of ours, cherished in our hearts, may aggrandize into total growth by the fourth dimension nosotros next meet, as 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 hither of payment and comfort. 129. And yet ... once more, and withal I wish I had not given it, in order that I might now once more have the joy of giving it. 131. frank, liberal, complimentary of hand; cp. Lear, iii. 4. 20, "Your former kind male parent, whose frank heart gave all." 132. the thing I have. sc. her own infinite love. 143. If that ... honourable, if your love is honourable in its intentions; for that, as a conjunctional affix, come across Abb. § 287. 145. procure to come up, arrange to accept sent. 146. the rite, sc. of marriage. 152. Past 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 suffer her to live emong her likes." 154. Then thrive my soul — may my soul prosper (co-ordinate as I mean well to you), the concluding words being broken off by Juliet's farewell. 156. A 1000 ... light, in answer to Juliet's wish of good-night he says, nay, non good night but bad night, night made a 1000 times the worse by the absenteeism of yous who are its simply light. 158. toward ... looks, sc. every bit schoolboys get toward, etc. 159. Hist! Heed! 159, 60. O, for ... again! would that I had a vocalisation that would bring dorsum my gentle Romeo every bit surely every bit the falconer's vocalism brings ack the tassel-gentle! "The tassel or tiercel (for and then it should be spelled) is the male of the gosshawk; so called because information technology is a tierce or 3rd 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 dearest Romeo." 161. Chains ... aloud, 1 fettered, constrained by fear of being overheard, like me, is as much unable to call aloud as one whose vocalism is stopped by hoarseness of the pharynx. 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 echo my cries, make her hoarser than myself fifty-fifty. Dyce compares Comus, 208, "And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." 166. silver-sweet, in innuendo to the sweet tone of bells fabricated of silver. 167. attending, attentive. 173. to have ... there, in order to keep you continuing there. 175. to have ... forget, so that y'all may go on to forget. 176. Forgetting ... this, forgetting that I have whatsoever abode but this, forgetting that this is not really my dwelling. 178. a wanton'south 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 expert night, shall proceed saying 'good night.' 188. so sugariness to rest, having and then sugariness a resting place. 189. ghostly begetter, spiritual begetter; father, a title given to cosmic priests. 190. my love 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: Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Ed. K. Deighton. London: Macmillan, 1916. Shakespeare Online. 20 Feb. 2013. < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/romeo_2_2.html >. How to cite the sidebar: Mabillard, Amanda. Notes on Shakespeare. 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Notes on Romeo and Juliet Juliet appears higher up at a window (phase management). Shakespeare did not include this stage direction and it is not in Q1 or the Start Folio. It was added in the 17th century and has remained ever since, although some editors choose to place the direction right after Romeo's line "He jests at scars that never felt a wound" (1), while others insert it correct before Romeo says "It is my lady, O information technology is my love" (10). ____ More to Explore Romeo and Juliet: Complete Play with Explanatory Notes  Themes and Motifs in Romeo and Juliet  Stage History of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet: Test Questions and Answers  Queen Mab in Patently English  Romeo, Rosaline, and Juliet  The Importance of Romeo and Rosaline Romeo and Juliet Plot Summary (Acts 1 and two) Romeo and Juliet Plot Summary (Acts 3, 4 and five) Romeo and Juliet and the Rules of Dramatic Tragedy Romeo and Juliet: Teacher's Notes and Classroom Give-and-take  What Is Achieved in Act I?  The Purpose of Romeo'south witticisms in two.1.  Friar Laurence'due south First Soliloquy  The Dramatic Function of Mercutio's Queen Mab Speech _____ sick and light-green ] The phrase sick and greenish refers to the anaemic status known as chlorosis, or green sickness. The goddess Diana (the moon personified) is sickly pale and envious of Juliet's beauty (6). Juliet, too, equally a follower of Diana (i.east,. a virgin) is looking quite sickly pale herself. As Helen Male monarch argues in her book The illness of virgins: greenish sickness, chlorosis and the problems of puberty, "...for an early modern reader, the disease label 'dark-green sickness' - like 'the disease of virgins' - could contain inside itself the cure: sexual experience" (35). Read on... _____  Mercutio's Death and its Role in the Play  Costume Design for a Product of Romeo and Juliet  Shakespeare'south Treatment of Love  Shakespeare on Fate  Sources for Romeo and Juliet  The Five Stages of Plot Evolution in Romeo and Juliet  Annotated Balustrade Scene, Act 2  Bare Poetry and Rhyme in Romeo and Juliet  How to Pronounce the Names in Romeo and Juliet  Introduction to Juliet  Introduction to Romeo  Introduction to Mercutio  Introduction to The Nurse  Introduction to The Montagues and the Capulets  Famous Quotations from Romeo and Juliet  Why Shakespeare is so Important  Shakespeare's Language  Shakespeare'due south Boss: The Master of Revels  What is Tragic Irony?  Seneca'due south Tragedies and the Elizabethan Drama  Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama Notes on Shakespeare... Richard Shakespeare, Shakespeare's paternal grandfather, was a farmer in the small village of Snitterfield, located iv miles from Stratford. Records show that Richard worked on several different farms which he leased from various landowners. Coincidentally, Richard leased state from Robert Arden, Shakespeare'due south maternal grandfather. Read on... ____ Shakespeare acquired substantial wealth thank you to his interim and writing abilities, and his shares in London theatres. The going charge per unit was £x per play at the turn of the sixteenth century. So how much coin did Shakespeare brand? Read on... Henry Bolingbroke, the eldest son of John of Gaunt and the grandson of King Edward 3, was born on Apr three, 1367. Henry usurped the throne from the ineffectual Rex Richard II in 1399, and thus became King Henry IV, the commencement of the 3 kings of the Business firm of Lancaster. Read on... ____ Known to the Elizabethans every bit ague, Malaria was a mutual malady spread by the mosquitoes in the marshy Thames. The swampy theatre commune of Southwark was always at adventure. King James I had information technology; so too did Shakespeare'south friend, Michael Drayton. Read on... ____ Shakespeare was familiar with seven foreign languages and oftentimes quoted them straight in his plays. His vocabulary was the largest of whatsoever writer, at over xx-four k words. Read on...

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