Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet And usest none in that true use indeed Thy dear love, sworn, but hollow perjury, And thou dismember'd with thine own defence." 4 Like powder in a skill-less soldier's flask, &c.] To understand the force of this allusion, it should be remembered that the ancient English soldiers, using match-locks, instead of locks with flints as at present, were obliged to carry a lighted match hanging at their belts, very near to the wooden flask in which they kept their powder. 5 And thou dismember'd with thine own defence.] And thou torn to pieces with thine own weapons. Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time Nurse. O Lord, I could have staid here all the night, To hear good counsel: O, what learning is !— Rom. Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide. Nurse. Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir: Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late. [Exit Nurse. Rom. How well my comfort is reviv'd by this! Fri. Go hence: Good night; and here stands all your state; Either be gone before the watch be set, here stands all your state;] The whole of depends on this. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. A Room in Capulet's House. Enter CAPULET, Lady CAPULET, and Paris. Cap. Things have fallen out, sir, so unluckily, That we have had no time to move our daughter : Look you, she lov'd her kinsman Tybalt dearly, And so did I ;-Well; we were born to die."Tis very late, she'll not come down to night: I promise you, but for your company, I would have been a-bed an hour ago. Par. These times of woe afford no time to woo: Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter. La. Cap. I will, and know her mind early to Of morrow; To-night she's mew'd up' to her heaviness. And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next- Par. Monday, my lord. Cap. Monday? ha! ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon, O' Thursday let it be ;-o' Thursday, tell her, 7 mew'd up-] This is a phrase from falconry. A mew was a place of confinement for hawks. 8 Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender-] Desperate means only bold, adventurous, as if he had said in the vulgar phrase, I will speak a bold word, and venture to promise you my daughter, We'll keep no great ado;-a friend, or two:- Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends, morrow. Cap. Well, get you gone:-O' Thursday be it then : Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed, May call it early by and by :-Good night. [Exeunt. SCENE V. Juliet's Chamber. Enter ROMEO and JULIET. Jul. Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day: It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree :9 Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. Rom. It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east: Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; "Nighty she sings on yon pomegranate tree:] This is not merely a poetical supposition. It is observed of the nightingale, that, if undisturbed, she sits and sings upon the same tree for many weeks together. I must be gone and live, or stay and die. 2 Jul. It is, it is, hie hence, be gone, away; Some say, the lark and loathed toad change eyes; ·the pale reflex-] The appearance of a cloud opposed to the moon. 2 I have more care to stay-] Care for inclination. 3 sweet division;] Division seems to have been the technical phrase for the pauses or parts of a musical composition. Hunting thee hence with hunts-up to the day.] The hunts-up was the name of the tune anciently played to wake the hunters, and collect them together. But a huntsup also signified a morning song to a new-married woman, the day after her marriage, and is used here in that sense. |