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Next: Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene iii __________ Explanatory Notes for Act 2, Scene 2 __________ Prologue ane. He jests ... wound, Mercutio, who never felt the wound of beloved, may well jest at the scars which Cupid'southward arrows have left in my heart. That this is not a general, merely a item, remark is, I think, proved by the answering rhyme, as Staunton has noticed. And as neither the folios nor the quartos brand whatever division of scene, such sectionalization, originally due to Rowe, seems clearly wrong. ii. soft! he bids himself 'hush,' cautions himself to talk in a lower vocalisation. 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 exercise. 8. Her vestal ... green, the life of chastity to which she binds her priestess is one of sickly, jaundiced, hue. In sick and green there is probably, as Delius suggests, an allusion to the "dark-green-sickness" of which Shakespeare often speaks, and which in 3. 5. 157, below, Capulet applies every bit an epithet to Juliet in his anger at her refusal of Paris, "Out, you green-sickness feces! out, you luggage! You tallow-face up," — an disquiet of languishing girls characterized by a stake complexion. The reading of the beginning 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; but information technology seems unlikely that Shakespeare would utilise the discussion fools in this literal sense when referring to Juliet, while, as Grant White points out, if such an innuendo were intended, it would be obtained from the reading of the first quarto, pale, without the tearing 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. three. 4. 10, "A vestal livery will I have me to, And never more accept joy." 12. what of that? simply that matters trivial. 13. discourses, is eloquent in its mere expect. sixteen. some business, some private affairs of their own which would be 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 system, were nine hollow spheres, consisting of the vii planets, the stock-still stars or firmament, and the Primum Mobile; the spheres with the stars and planets in them beingness whirled round the earth in xx-iv hours by the driving ability, 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 subsequently times the temper was divided into three regions, upper, eye, and lower. Cp. also Haml. 2. 2. 509. 24, 5. O, that ... cheek, cp. Tennyson, The Miller's Girl, 169-186. 28. winged messenger, angel. 29. white-upturned, turned upward in admiration so that the pupils are scarcely seen. xxx. 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'southward conjecture for lasie pacing, of the first quarto; the remaining quartos and the folios give lazie, or lazy, puffing. 34. pass up, disown, disclaim; cp. T. C. iv. five. 267, "We take had pelting wars, since you refused The Grecians' crusade." 37. speak at this, reply her without assuasive her to go farther, interrupt her at this point. 39. Thou art ... Montague. Staunton explains "That is, as she afterwards expresses information technology, you would still retain all the perfections which ardorn you, were not chosen 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 even so, with the explanation that Juliet is only endeavouring to account for Romeo'south being amiable and first-class though he is a Montague, to show which she asserts that he only bears the name, but has none of the qualities of that house. Various emendations have also been proposed, but Staunton's explanation seems to me quite satisfactory. 42. exist some other proper noun, be somebody else in proper name than Montague. Lettsom objects that Shakespeare could not have written "be some other name"; just after the expression "What's Montague?", where "Montague" is used as though it were a thing, there seems no reason why we should non have "be some other name." 46. owes, owns; as ofttimes in Elizabethan literature, the final n of the K. 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 'ain' = to possess; it being from the A.S. agan, to have, while the latter is from the A.S. agnian, to appropriate, claim equally one's own, from agn, contracted course of agen, one'southward own (Skeat, Ety. Dict.). 47. doff, put off; do off, as don, do on; dup, practice up; dout, practice out. 48. for thy name, in substitution for your proper name. 53. Then stumblest on my counsel, come so unexpectedly upon my clandestine thouglits; cp. G. Northward. D. i. ane. 216, "Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet," i.e. confiding to each other our inmost thoughts. 53, four. By a name... am, if I could let y'all know who I am without using a name, I would gladly practice then, for it is impossible for me to name myself without lamentable you. 55. saint. Delius points out that this discussion recalls their first coming together 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 actually impersonal, equally in Oth. ii. 3. 49, "I'll do't; just it mislike's me." 64. And the place death, and to venture here is to risk your life. 66. o'er-perch these walls, fly over these walls and settle hither, equally a bird settles upon a branch after a flying from some other spot; a perch is literally a rod, bar, then a bender or twig on which a bird settles. 67. stony limits, limits formed of stone, i.eastward. walls; stony, more than normally used as = of the nature of. 69. are no allow to me, are no hindrance to me, cannot bar my way and proceed me out. 71. Alack, according to Skeat, either a corruption of 'ah! lord,' or, which seems more than probable, from ah! and Yard. Eastward. lak, loss, failure. 73. proof against, able to endure, hold out against; run into note on i. 1. 216. 76. only thou love me ... here, except, unless, you love me, I am quite willing that they should find me here and kill me; without your love, life to me is not worth living. 78. Than death ... dearest, than that my death should be delayed if I am to be without your love; prorogued, the Lat. prorogare was to propose a further extension of office, lience to defer, though literally meaning only to ask publicly, from pro-, publicly, and rogare, to enquire. 81. counsel, advice. 83. vast shore. "Lat. vastus, empty, waste matter" (Walker). 84. I would adventure for, I would make my voyage in quest of, however swell the danger. 88. Fain ... form, gladly would I, if it were possible, stand on ceremony with you, care for you with distant formality; Fain, properly an adjective. 89. but farewell compliment, "but 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'southward Art of Love, i. 633, "For Jove himself sits in the azure skies, And laughs beneath at lover's perjuries," from which he thinks that Shakespeare borrowed. 94. pronounce it faithfully, clinch me of your love without adding an oath to confirm your words. 97. Then, provided that. 98. addicted, foolishly loving; fond, originally fonned, the past participle of the verb fonnen, to human action foolishly, from the substantive fon, a fool. 99. light, total of levity, wanton. 101. more than cunning ... strange, more skill in affecting coyness. 104. passion, passionate confession; the word was formerly used of any strong emotion. 106. Which the dark ... discovered, which (beloved) has been revealed to you past the darkness of the night whose office should exist to conceal; which you have discovered thanks to the darkness of the night. 110. circled, revolving; not, I think, 'round,' equally Schmidt explains. 111. likewise, every bit. 113. gracious, attractive, finding favour in my eyes; cp. T. A. i. 1. 429, "if ever Tamora Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine." This is the reading of the first quarto, the other one-time copies giving glorious, which Grant White thinks more than suitable to the context. 114.of my idolatry, that I worship. 117. I have ... to-nighttime, I experience no joy in now 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, 2. This bud of dearest ... meet, this new beloved of ours, cherished in our hearts, may aggrandize into full growth by the time we next come across, as beneath the summer's warmth the bud expands into a beauteous blossom. as that ... breast, "equally to that center within my breast" (Delius). 126. satisfaction, Delius points out the double sense here of payment and comfort. 129. And yet ... again, and all the same I wish I had not given information technology, in order that I might now again have the joy of giving it. 131. frank, liberal, gratuitous of hand; cp. Lear, three. 4. 20, "Your sometime kind male parent, whose frank centre gave all." 132. the thing I have. sc. her own space dear. 143. If that ... honourable, if your love is honourable in its intentions; for that, every bit a conjunctional affix, come across Abb. § 287. 145. procure to come up, conform to have sent. 146. the rite, sc. of spousal relationship. 152. By and by, in a infinitesimal, directly. 153. accommodate. Malone quotes from Brooke's poem, Romeus and Juliet, "and now your Juliet you beseekes To stop your sute, and suffer her to live emong her likes." 154. So thrive my soul — may my soul prosper (according as I hateful well to yous), the last words being broken off by Juliet's farewell. 156. A thou ... calorie-free, in reply to Juliet'due south wish of good-night he says, nay, not good nighttime but bad night, night made a thousand times the worse by the absence of yous who are its simply lite. 158. toward ... looks, sc. every bit schoolboys go toward, etc. 159. Hist! Listen! 159, lx. O, for ... once more! would that I had a vox that would bring back my gentle Romeo every bit surely every bit the falconer's voice 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 it is a tierce or third less than the female...This species of hawk had the epithet gentle annexed to information technology, from the ease with which it was tamed, and its zipper to homo" (Steevens). "Information technology appears," adds Malone, "that certain hawks were considered as 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. Bondage ... aloud, one fettered, constrained by fear of being overheard, like me, is equally much unable to call aloud as ane 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; Repeat, an Oread who by Juno was changed into a being neither able to speak until somebody had spoken, nor to exist silent when anybody had spoken. 163. And brand ... mine, and, by compelling her to echo my cries, make her hoarser than myself even. Dyce compares Comus, 208, "And airy tongues that syllable men'southward names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." 166. silver-sugariness, in allusion to the sweet tone of bells made of silver. 167. attending, attentive. 173. to accept ... there, in order to keep you standing in that location. 175. to have ... forget, so that you may go along to forget. 176. Forgetting ... this, forgetting that I accept any habitation but this, forgetting that this is not really my dwelling. 178. a wanton's bird, the pet bird of a mischievous daughter, a girl that loves to tease her pets. 180. gyves, chains, fetters. 182. And so loving-jealous ... liberty, and then addicted of it and yet then jealous of its getting its liberty. 186. shall say practiced night, shall continue saying 'good dark.' 188. so sweet to rest, having and so sweet a resting place. 189. ghostly father, spiritual father; male parent, a title given to catholic priests. 190. my dear hap, the good fortune that has befallen me; hap, fortune, run a risk, accident, from which we get 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 it is not in Q1 or the Showtime Folio. 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