CAP. Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender Of my child's love: I think, she will be rul'd In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not. Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed; Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love; And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday nextBut, soft; What day is this?

PAR.

Monday, my lord.

CAP. Monday? ha! ha! Well, Wednesday is

too soon,

O'Thursday let it be ;-o'Thursday, tell her,
She shall be married to this noble earl:-
Will you be ready? do you like this haste?
We'll keep no great ado;-a friend, or two:—
For hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,
It may be thought we held him carelessly,
Being our kinsman, if we revel much :

Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends, And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?

PAR. My lord, I would that Thursday were to

morrow.

CAP. Well, get you gone :- O' Thursday be it then :

Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,

Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day,Farewell, my lord.-Light to my chamber, ho! Afore me, it is so very late, that we

May call it early by and by :-Good night.

Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender

[Exeunt.

Of my child's love:] Desperate means only bold, adventu rous, as if he had said in the vulgar phrase, I will speak a bold word, and venture to promise you my daughter. JOHNSON. So, in The Weakest goes to the Wall, 1600:

"Witness this desperate tender of mine honour."

STEEVENS.

SCENE V.

Juliet's Chamber.9

Enter ROMEO and JULIET.

JUL. Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:1 It was the nightingale, and not the lark,

• SCENE V. Juliet's Chamber.] The stage-direction in the first edition is" Enter Romeo and Juliet, at a window." In the second quarto, "Enter Romeo and Juliet aloft." They appeared probably in the balcony which was erected on the old English stage. See The Account of the Ancient Theatres in Vol. III. MALONE.

1 Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day: &c.] This scene is formed on the following hints in the poem of Romeus and Juliet, 1562:

"The golden sun was gone to lodge him in the west,
"The full moon eke in yonder south had sent most men
to rest;

"When restless Romeus and restless Juliet,

"In wonted sort, by wonted mean, in Juliet's chamber met, &c.

*

"Thus these two lovers pass away the weary night
"In pain, and plaint, not, as they wont, in pleasure and
delight.

"But now, somewhat too soon, in farthest east arose
"Fair Lucifer, the golden star that lady Venus chose ;
"Whose course appointed is with speedy race to run,
"A messenger of dawning day and of the rising sun.-
"When thou ne lookest wide, ne closely dost thou wink,
"When Phoebus from our hemisphere in western wave
doth sink,

"What colour then the heavens do show unto thine eyes,
"The same, or like, saw Romeus in farthest eastern skies:
"As yet he saw no day, ne could he call it night,
"With equal force decreasing dark fought with increas-
ing light.