125, 8. Lie thou there knives were formerly part of the accoutrement of a bride. 126, 3. — Mandrakes': mandrake roots were once supposed to possess a kind of animal life; and when torn from the earth uttered such fearful groans that the person who uprooted one went mad. 126, 16. Pastry the room where the paste is made. 127, 3. Cot-quean: this speech should be given to Lady Capulet; she rebukes her husband for making himself a cotquean or man-meddler with woman's matters. 127, 8. Mouse-hunt woman-hunter. 127, 10. 130, 9. 130, 10. -- : Jealous-hood: nickname for a jealous old woman. Not let me speak not let me say more. Come, is the bride this is spoken by Paris, to whom Capulet addresses the responsive speech. 130, 13. 130, 14. him. 132, 12. at funerals. 133, 6. There she lies should be; See, where she lies. Rosemary this was used both at weddings and Heart's ease: a popular tune of the time. 133, 10. - My heart is full of woe: burthen of the first stanza of " A pleasant new ballad of Two Lovers". 133, 11. Merry dump dump is a melancholy strain of music; merry dump is therefore a purposed contradiction of terms put into the comedian's mouth. 134, 3. - Give you the minstrel the meaning is lost. 134, 20. not hit it. Pretty same as That's very well, but you have 135, II. Jack a common fellow, knave; applied to Peter as soon as his back is turned. 135, 12. Stay dinner wait for dinner. ACT V 137, 1. Sooth of sleep others read "truth" and various words, and then seek for farfetched explanations; truth ceases to be truth when flattering; whilst a sooth or augury is naturally enough expressed as flattering. 138, 11. Capels': "Capel" and "Capulet" are used indiscriminately in "Romeus and Juliet ". 139, 13. Alligator stuff'd part of the usual furniture of an apothecary's shop. 140, 5. Soon-speeding gear: quick dispatching stuff. 142, 1. To associate me every friar had a companion assigned him when he went abroad from his House. 142, 13. Nice: trifling, or, unimportant. 142, 20. Beshrew scold. 143, 12. Stand alone: some hypercritically suggest "stay alone" because Paris had directed him to lie down; the meaning is too clear to need remark or change of expression. 144, 17. - Dear employment action of importance. 144, 24. Empty hungry. - conjurest me. Conjurations that is, I refuse to depart as thou 147, 4. A lantern an octagonal turret full of windows. Romeo and Juliet. 22 147, 10. Lightning before death: a proverbial phrase, the last sudden flickering of life before death. Dateless limitless, eternal. Stumbled at graves always regarded as a bad 149, 9. I dreamt : " what happens to a person under the influence of fear will seem to him, when he is recovered from it, like a dream ". 150, 19. 151, 5. Timeless untimely. : : Rust this was changed from rest as printed in the first quarto into rust in the second quarto; probably by Shakespeare. 152, 2. 153, 11. Circumstance further particulars. On the back the dagger was worn at the back. 154, 1. Look and thou shalt see probably Look in this monument and thou shalt see. 154, 17. I will be brief: Shakespeare was led into this "uninteresting narrative by following Romeus and Juliet too closely ". 157, 18. Some shall be pardon'd in the novel the old Nurse is banished for concealing the marriage; Romeo's servant is set at liberty, he having acted throughout under orders; the apothecary is arrested, tortured, condemned, and hanged; and Friar Laurence is remitted to a hermitage where after five. or six years he closed his life in penitence and tranquillity. CE LIVRE A ÉTÉ ACHEVÉ D'IMPRIMER Le 15 Novembre 1892 POUR DUPRAT ET C, ÉDITEURS PAR D. JOUAUST A PARIS |