I Should Know Because This Fools in Love Again
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Next: Romeo and Juliet, Human action 2, Scene three __________ Explanatory Notes for Act ii, Scene 2 __________ Prologue 1. He jests ... wound, Mercutio, who never felt the wound of beloved, may well jest at the scars which Cupid's arrows have left in my heart. That this is not a general, just a item, remark is, I recall, proved by the answering rhyme, as Staunton has noticed. And equally neither the folios nor the quartos make whatever segmentation of scene, such division, originally due to Rowe, seems clearly wrong. 2. soft! he bids himself 'hush,' cautions himself to talk in a lower vocalization. iv. envious, jealous. seven. Be non her maid, no longer serve her, no longer go on a vow to live unmarried; as Diana's votaries pledged themselves to practice. 8. Her vestal ... green, the life of chastity to which she binds her priestess is one of sickly, jaundiced, hue. In sick and green in that location is probably, as Delius suggests, an allusion to the "green-sickness" of which Shakespeare often speaks, and which in iii. v. 157, below, Capulet applies as an epithet to Juliet in his acrimony at her refusal of Paris, "Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage! You lot tallow-face," — an disquiet of languishing girls characterized by a pale complexion. The reading of the first quarto is stake for ill, and this is preferred by many editors. Collier would change sick into white, seeing in the line an allusion to the white and greenish livery formerly worn by the Court fools; only it seems unlikely that Shakespeare would utilise the word fools in this literal sense when referring to Juliet, while, every bit Grant White points out, if such an innuendo were intended, it would exist obtained from the reading of the beginning quarto, pale, without the fierce change 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 guiltlessness and celibacy; cp. Per. iii. 4. 10, "A vestal livery volition I take me to, And never more than have joy." 12. what of that? but that matters fiddling. xiii. discourses, is eloquent in its mere await. sixteen. some business, some private affairs of their ain which would be hindered by their having to perform their nightly duty of lighting up the sky. 17. in their spheres. Co-ordinate to the Ptolemaic organization of astronomy, round about the earth, which was the heart of the arrangement, were nine hollow spheres, consisting of the seven planets, the fixed stars or empyrean, and the Primum Mobile; the spheres with the stars and planets in them beingness whirled circular the earth in twenty-4 hours by the driving ability, the Primum Mobile. 21. the blusterous region, the upper air; region, was originally a sectionalization of the sky marked out by the Roman augurs. In later times the atmosphere was divided into 3 regions, upper, middle, and lower. Cp. also Haml. ii. two. 509. 24, v. O, that ... cheek, cp. Tennyson, The Miller's Daughter, 169-186. 28. winged messenger, affections. 29. white-upturned, turned up in adoration so that the pupils are scarcely seen. 30. fall back, stand back in awe, and also in social club to go a clearer view. 31. lazy-pacing, slowly drifting. Grant White compares Macb. i. vii. 21-5; lazy-pacing is Pope'south theorize for lasie pacing, of the first quarto; the remaining quartos and the folios give lazie, or lazy, puffing. 34. decline, disown, disclaim; cp. T. C. 4. 5. 267, "We accept had pelting wars, since y'all refused The Grecians' cause." 37. speak at this, answer her without allowing her to go further, interrupt her at this point. 39. Thou art ... Montague. Staunton explains "That is, as she afterwards expresses information technology, you would withal retain all the perfections which ardorn you, were not called Montague"; and and then substantially Grant White, though Dyce calls such an caption "unintelligible." Others follow Malone in putting the comma after though, every bit used in the sense of notwithstanding, with the explanation that Juliet is simply endeavouring to account for Romeo's being amiable and excellent though he is a Montague, to show which she asserts that he merely bears the name, but has none of the qualities of that firm. Various emendations accept likewise been proposed, but Staunton'due south explanation seems to me quite satisfactory. 42. be another name, be somebody else in name than Montague. Lettsom objects that Shakespeare could not have written "be another name"; but after the expression "What'southward Montague?", where "Montague" is used as though it were a thing, there seems no reason why we should not have "be some other name." 46. owes, owns; as oftentimes in Elizabethan literature, the final n of the G. E. owen, to pcssess, existence dropped. The mod sense of the word 'to be in debt,' 'to exist obliged,' comes from the sense of possessing some other's property, but the word has no etymological connection with to 'own' = to possess; information technology being from the A.S. agan, to have, while the latter is from the A.S. agnian, to appropriate, claim as 1'southward ain, from agn, contracted form of agen, one'due south own (Skeat, Ety. Dict.). 47. doff, put off; do off, as don, do on; dup, practise up; dout, do out. 48. for thy proper name, in commutation for your name. 53. So stumblest on my counsel, come up so unexpectedly upon my clandestine thouglits; cp. Grand. Northward. D. i. one. 216, "Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet," i.e. confiding to each other our inmost thoughts. 53, 4. By a proper name... am, if I could let you know who I am without using a name, I would gladly exercise so, for it is incommunicable for me to name myself without distressing you. 55. saint. Delius points out that this give-and-take recalls their starting time meeting 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, every bit in Oth. ii. 3. 49, "I'll do't; but information technology 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, as a bird settles upon a branch subsequently a flying from some other spot; a perch is literally a rod, bar, and so a bough or twig on which a bird settles. 67. stony limits, limits formed of stone, i.e. walls; stony, more commonly used equally = of the nature of. 69. are no let to me, are no hindrance to me, cannot bar my style and keep me out. 71. Alack, co-ordinate to Skeat, either a corruption of 'ah! lord,' or, which seems more probable, from ah! and M. E. lak, loss, failure. 73. proof confronting, able to suffer, concur out against; see note on i. 1. 216. 76. but thou beloved me ... here, except, unless, yous love me, I am quite willing that they should notice me hither and kill me; without your love, life to me is not worth living. 78. Than death ... love, than that my death should exist delayed if I am to be without your dearest; prorogued, the Lat. prorogare was to propose a further extension of role, lience to defer, though literally meaning but to ask publicly, from pro-, publicly, and rogare, to enquire. 81. counsel, communication. 83. vast shore. "Lat. vastus, empty, waste" (Walker). 84. I would adventure for, I would make my voyage in quest of, however great the danger. 88. Fain ... class, gladly would I, if it were possible, stand on ceremony with you, treat y'all with distant formality; Fain, properly an adjective. 89. but cheerio compliment, "simply away with formality and punctilio" (Staunton); I now cast such things to the winds. 93. laughs, skilful-humouredly disdains to punish them. Douce compares Marlowe'southward translation of Ovid'southward Art of Dearest, i. 633, "For Jove himself sits in the azure skies, And laughs below at lover's perjuries," from which he thinks that Shakespeare borrowed. 94. pronounce it faithfully, assure me of your love without calculation an oath to confirm your words. 97. And then, provided that. 98. addicted, foolishly loving; fond, originally fonned, the past participle of the verb fonnen, to act foolishly, from the substantive fon, a fool. 99. light, full of levity, wanton. 101. more than cunning ... foreign, more skill in affecting coyness. 104. passion, passionate confession; the word was formerly used of whatever strong emotion. 106. Which the nighttime ... discovered, which (dearest) has been revealed to you by the darkness of the night whose function should be to conceal; which you lot accept discovered thank you to the darkness of the night. 110. circled, revolving; not, I remember, 'round,' as Schmidt explains. 111. too, equally. 113. gracious, bonny, finding favour in my optics; cp. T. A. i. 1. 429, "if e'er Tamora Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine." This is the reading of the kickoff quarto, the other onetime copies giving glorious, which Grant White thinks more than suitable to the context. 114.of my idolatry, that I worship. 117. I have ... to-night, I feel 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 honey. 118. unadvised, imprudent, formed without sufficient consideration. 121, 2. This bud of dear ... meet, this new love of ours, cherished in our hearts, may expand into total growth by the fourth dimension nosotros adjacent meet, every bit below the summer's warmth the bud expands into a beauteous blossom. as that ... breast, "as to that heart within my breast" (Delius). 126. satisfaction, Delius points out the double sense here of payment and comfort. 129. And yet ... once again, and yet I wish I had non given it, in order that I might now again have the joy of giving it. 131. frank, liberal, free of hand; cp. Lear, iii. iv. 20, "Your old kind begetter, whose frank middle gave all." 132. the affair I have. sc. her own infinite love. 143. If that ... honourable, if your love is honourable in its intentions; for that, as a conjunctional affix, see Abb. § 287. 145. procure to come, arrange to take sent. 146. the rite, sc. of marriage. 152. Past and past, in a infinitesimal, straight. 153. suit. Malone quotes from Brooke'south poem, Romeus and Juliet, "and now your Juliet you beseekes To terminate your sute, and suffer her to alive emong her likes." 154. So thrive my soul — may my soul prosper (according as I mean well to you), the terminal words being cleaved off by Juliet's cheerio. 156. A yard ... light, in reply to Juliet'due south wish of adept-night he says, nay, not skillful dark but bad nighttime, night made a chiliad times the worse by the absenteeism of you lot who are its only lite. 158. toward ... looks, sc. equally schoolboys go toward, etc. 159. Hist! Listen! 159, sixty. O, for ... once more! would that I had a voice that would bring back my gentle Romeo every bit surely every bit the falconer'south voice brings ack the tassel-gentle! "The tassel or tiercel (for and then it should be spelled) is the male of the gosshawk; and so called because it is a tierce or third less than the female...This species of militarist had the epithet gentle annexed to it, from the ease with which it was tamed, and its attachment to man" (Steevens). "Information technology appears," adds Malone, "that sure hawks were considered as appropriated to certain ranks. The tercel-gentle was appropriated to the prince, and thence was chosen by Juliet every bit an appellation for her beloved Romeo." 161. Bondage ... aloud, one fettered, constrained by fearfulness of being overheard, like me, is as much unable to telephone call aloud as one 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; Echo, an Oread who by Juno was changed into a beingness neither able to speak until somebody had spoken, nor to exist silent when everyone had spoken. 163. And make ... mine, and, by compelling her to repeat my cries, make her hoarser than myself even. Dyce compares Comus, 208, "And airy tongues that syllable men'due south names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." 166. silver-sweet, in allusion to the sweet tone of bells made of silver. 167. attending, attentive. 173. to have ... there, in order to go on y'all standing at that place. 175. to have ... forget, and so that y'all may continue to forget. 176. Forgetting ... this, forgetting that I have any habitation but this, forgetting that this is non really my home. 178. a wanton's bird, the pet bird of a mischievous girl, a girl that loves to tease her pets. 180. gyves, chains, fetters. 182. Then loving-jealous ... liberty, so fond of it and all the same then jealous of its getting its liberty. 186. shall say proficient night, shall go on saying 'good night.' 188. and then sugariness to rest, having so sweet a resting identify. 189. ghostly father, spiritual father; begetter, a title given to catholic priests. 190. my dear hap, the good fortune that has befallen me; hap, fortune, chance, accident, from which we go to 'happen' and 'happy.' How to cite the explanatory notes: ______ Even more than... | Notes on Romeo and Juliet Juliet appears in a higher place at a window (phase direction). Shakespeare did not include this stage direction and it is non in Q1 or the Starting time Page. Information technology was added in the 17th century and has remained ever since, although some editors choose to place the direction right later Romeo's line "He jests at scars that never felt a wound" (1), while others insert information technology right before Romeo says "It is my lady, O it is my love" (x). More to Explore Romeo and Juliet: Complete Play with Explanatory Notes Themes and Motifs in Romeo and Juliet Stage History of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet: Examination Questions and Answers sick and green ] The phrase sick and dark-green refers to the anaemic condition known equally chlorosis, or green sickness. The goddess Diana (the moon personified) is sickly stake and envious of Juliet'due south beauty (vi). Juliet, too, equally a follower of Diana (i.e,. a virgin) is looking quite sickly pale herself. As Helen King argues in her book The illness of virgins: light-green sickness, chlorosis and the problems of puberty, "...for an early on modern reader, the illness label 'green sickness' - similar 'the disease of virgins' - could comprise within itself the cure: sexual feel" (35). Read on... Notes on Shakespeare... Richard Shakespeare, Shakespeare's paternal grandfather, was a farmer in the small village of Snitterfield, located four miles from Stratford. Records show that Richard worked on several unlike farms which he leased from various landowners. Coincidentally, Richard leased land from Robert Arden, Shakespeare's maternal granddaddy. Read on... ____ Shakespeare acquired substantial wealth thanks to his acting and writing abilities, and his shares in London theatres. The going rate was £10 per play at the plough of the sixteenth century. So how much coin did Shakespeare make? Read on... Henry Bolingbroke, the eldest son of John of Gaunt and the grandson of King Edward Iii, was born on April 3, 1367. Henry usurped the throne from the ineffectual Male monarch Richard II in 1399, and thus became King Henry IV, the get-go of the three kings of the House of Lancaster. Read on... Known to the Elizabethans as ague, Malaria was a mutual malady spread by the mosquitoes in the marshy Thames. The swampy theatre district of Southwark was ever at chance. King James I had it; so as well did Shakespeare's friend, Michael Drayton. Read on... Shakespeare was familiar with seven foreign languages and oft quoted them directly in his plays. His vocabulary was the largest of any writer, at over twenty-four thousand words. 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