For beauty starved with her severity Ben. Be ruled by me, forget to think of her. 'Tis the way 4 th Rom. 230 240 SCENE II. A street. Enter CAPULET, PARIS, and Servant. Cap. But Montague is bound as well as I, 235. To call hers, exquisite, in question more, to force that exquisite beauty of hers, yet more upon my judgment, by comparison, and so make me 244. doctrine, instruction. : Cap. But saying o'er what I have said before: Par. Younger than she are happy mothers made. The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she, And like her most whose merit most shall be: 15. the hopeful lady of my earth, my heiress. 30. Inherit, enjoy. 32. Which on more view, etc. So Q94 5° These obscure lines appear to mean : 'Of which number, on closer view, my own daughter may be found, notwithstanding that "one among 10 30 a number is reckoned none. This saying is played upon in Sonnet cxxxvi. : Among a number one is reckon'd Then in the number let me pass untold. 'Which, if right, is a loosely used relative, with the whole previous sentence as antecedent. Come, go with me. [To Serv., giving a paper.] Through fair Verona; find those persons out [Exeunt Capulet and Paris. Serv. Find them out whose names are written here! It is written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his yard, and the tailor with his last, 40 the fisher with his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am sent to find those persons whose names are here writ, and can never find what names the writing person hath here writ. I must to the learned.-In good time. Enter BENVOLIO and ROMEO. Ben Tut, man, one fire burns out another's One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish guish : Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. Rom. Your plaintain-leaf is excellent for that. · Rom. For your broken shin. Ben. Why, Romeo, art thou mad? Rom. Not mad, but bound more than a madman is; Shut up in prison, kept without my food, Whipp'd and tormented and-God-den, good fellow. Serv. God gi' god-den. I pray, sir, can you read? 45. In good time; referring to the arrival of Benvolio and Romeo, VOL. VII 417 2 E 50 : Rom. Ay, mine own fortune in my misery. Serv. Perhaps you have learned it without book: but, I pray, can you read any thing you see? Rom. Ay, if I know the letters and the language. [Reads. 'Signior Martino and his wife and daughters; County Anselme and his beauteous sisters; the lady widow of Vitruvio; Signior Placentio and his lovely nieces; Mercutio and his brother Valentine; mine uncle Capulet, his wife, and daughters; my fair niece Rosaline; Livia; Signior Valentio and his cousin Tybalt; Lucio and the lively Helena.' A fair assembly: whither should they come? Rom. Whither? Serv. To supper; to our house. Rom. Whose house? Serv. My master's. Rom. Indeed, I should have ask'd you that before. Serv. Now I'll tell you without asking: my master is the great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine. Rest you merry! Ben. At this same ancient feast of Capulet's Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest, With all the admired beauties of Verona : Go thither; and, with unattainted eye, Compare her face with some that I shall show, And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. Rom. When the devout religion of mine eye Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires; 90. unattainted, sincere, impartial. And these, who often drown'd could never die, And she shall scant show well that now shows best. Rom. I'll go along, no such sight to be shown, But to rejoice in splendour of mine own. [Exeunt. SCENE III. A room in Capulet's house. Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse. La. Cap. Nurse, where's my daughter? call her forth to me. Nurse. Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old, I bade her come. What, lamb! what, lady-bird!— God forbid !-Where's this girl? What, Juliet ! Jul. How now! who calls? Nurse. Enter JULIET. Your mother. What is your will? Jul. Madam, I am here. La. Cap. This is the matter:-Nurse, give We must talk in secret :-nurse, come back again; 9. thou's, thou shalt, 100 |