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O, now be gone; more light and light it grows. ROM. More light and light?-more dark and dark our woes.

Enter Nurse.

NURSE. Madam!

JUL. Nurse?

NURSE. Your lady mother's coming to your

chamber:

The day is broke; be wary, look about.

[Exit Nurse. JUL. Then, window, let day in, and let life out. ROM. Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll de[ROMEO descends.

scend.

JUL. Art thou gone so? my love! my lord! my friend!1

I must hear from thee every day i'the hour,
For in a minute there are many days:
O! by this count I shall be much in years,
Ere I again behold my Romeo.2

ROM. Farewell! I will omit no opportunity That may convey my greetings, love, to thee. JUL. O, think'st thou, we shall ever meet again? ROM. I doubt it not; and all these woes shall

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1 Art thou gone'so? my love! my lord! my friend!] Thus the quarto, 1597. That of 1599, and the folio, read:

Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay husband, friend!

O! by this count I shall be much in years,
Ere I again behold my Romeo.]

"Illa ego, quæ fueram te decedente puella,
"Protinus ut redeas, facta videbor anus.'

MALONE.

Ovid, Epist. I. STEEVENS.

For sweet discourses in our time to come.

JUL. O God! I have an ill-divining soul: Methinks, I see thee, now thou art below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb: Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. ROM. And trust me, love, in my eye so do you: Dry sorrow drinks our blood.5 Adieu! adieu! [Exit ROMEO.

JUL. O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle: If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him

O God! I have an ill-divining soul: &c.] This miserable prescience of futurity I have always regarded as a circumstance particularly beautiful. The same kind of warning from the mind, Romeo seems to have been conscious of, on his going to the entertainment at the house of Capulet:

66 my mind misgives,

"Some consequence yet hanging in the stars,
"Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
"From this night's revels."

STEEVENS.

* O God! I have an ill-divining soul:

Methinks, I see thee, now thou art below,

As one dead-] So, in our author's Venus and Adonis: "The thought of it doth make my faint heart bleed; "And fear doth teach it divination;

"I prophecy thy death."

The reading of the text is that of the quarto, 1597. That of 1599, and the folio, read-now thou art so low. MALONE.

'Dry sorrow drinks our blood.]

proverb" Sorrow's dry."

This is an allusion to the

Chapman, in his version of the seventeenth Iliad, says—

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"Drunk from their faces all their blouds ;—”

STEEVENS.

He is accounting for their paleness. It was an ancient notion that sorrow consumed the blood, and shortened life. Hence, in The Third Part of King Henry VI. we have blood-sucking sighs." MALONE.

See Vol. XVIII. p. 311, n. 4. STEEVENS.

That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune; For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long, But send him back.

LA. CAP. [Within.] Ho, daughter! are you up? JUL. Who is't that calls? is it my lady mother? Is she not down so late, or up so early?? What unaccustom'd cause procures her hither?

Enter Lady CAPULET.

LA. CAP. Why, how now, Juliet ?

JUL.

Madam, I am not well.

LA. CAP. Evermore weeping for your cousin's death ?9

That is renown'd for faith?] This Romeo, so renown'd for faith, was but the day before dying for love of another woman: yet this is natural. Romeo was the darling object of Juliet's love, and Romeo was, of course, to have every excellence.

M. MASON.

"Is she not down so late, or up so early?] Is she not laid down in her bed at so late an hour as this? or rather is she risen from bed at so early an hour of the morn? MALONE.

procures her hither?] Procures for brings.

WARBURTON.

• Evermore weeping for your cousin's death? &c.] So, in The Tragicall Hystory of Romeus and Juliet, 1562:

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time it is that now you should our Tybalt's death forget;

"Of whom since God hath claim'd the life that was but

lent,

"He is in bliss, ne is there cause why you should thus

lament:

"You cannot call him back with tears and shriekings

shrill;

"It is a fault thus still to grudge at God's appointed

will." MALONE.

So, full as appositely, in Painter's Novel: "Thinke no more upon the death of your cousin Thibault, whom do you thinke to revoke with teares?" &c. STEEVENS.

What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with

tears?

An if thou could'st, thou could'st not make him

live;

Therefore, have done: Some grief shows much of

love;

But much of grief shows still some want of wit. JUL. Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss. LA. CAP. So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend

Which you weep

JUL.

for.

Feeling so the loss, I cannot choose but ever weep the friend.

LA. CAP. Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death,

As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him.
JUL. What villain, madam?

LA. CAP.
That same villain, Romeo.
JUL. Villain and he are many miles asunder.
God pardon him! I do, with all my heart;
And yet no man, like he, doth grieve my heart.
LA. CAP. That is, because the traitor murderer

lives.

JUL. Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands.

'Would, none but I might venge my cousin's death! LA. CAP. We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not:

'God pardon him!] The word him, which was inadvertently omitted in the old copies, was inserted by the editor of the second folio. MALONE.

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Ay, madam, from &c.] Juliet's equivocations are rather too artful for a mind disturbed by the loss of a new lover. JOHNSON.

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Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,-
Where that same banish'd runagate doth live,—
That shall bestow on him so sure a draught,3

That he shall soon keep Tybalt company:
And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied.

JUL. Indeed, I never shall be satisfied.
With Romeo, till I behold him-dead-
Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vex'd:-
Madam, if you could find out but a man.
To bear a poison, I would temper it;
That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,
Soon sleep in quiet.-Ô, how my heart abhors
To hear him nam'd,-and cannot come to him,-
To wreak the love I bore my cousin Tybalt
Upon his body that hath slaughter'd him!

3 That shall bestow on him so sure a draught,] Thus the elder quarto, which I have followed in preference to the quartos 1599 and 1609, and the folio, 1623, which read, less intelligibly:

Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram.

STEEVENS.

The elder quarto has-That should &c. The word shall is drawn from that of 1599. MALONE.

unaccustom'd dram,] In vulgar language, Shall give him a dram which he is not used to. Though I have, if I mistake not, observed, that in old books unaccustomed signifies wonderful, powerful, efficacious. JOHNSON.

I believe Dr. Johnson's first explanation is the true one. Barnaby Googe, in his Cupido Conquered, 1563, uses unacquainted

in the same sense:

"And ever as we mounted up,

"I lookte upon my wynges,

"And prowde I was, me thought, to see

"Suche unacquaynted thyngs." STEEVENS.

my cousin Tybalt-] The last word of this line, which

is not in the old copies, was added by the editor of the second folio.

MALOne.

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