Come Back (Again to Me) Evans Lloyd 1920
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Adjacent: Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 3 __________ Explanatory Notes for Act two, Scene ii __________ Prologue 1. He jests ... wound, Mercutio, who never felt the wound of love, may well jest at the scars which Cupid's arrows have left in my middle. That this is not a general, but a particular, remark is, I think, proved by the answering rhyme, as Staunton has noticed. And as neither the folios nor the quartos brand whatever partitioning of scene, such division, originally due to Rowe, seems clearly incorrect. 2. soft! he bids himself 'hush,' cautions himself to talk in a lower voice. iv. envious, jealous. vii. Be not her maid, no longer serve her, no longer proceed a vow to live unmarried; equally Diana'southward votaries pledged themselves to do. 8. Her vestal ... light-green, the life of chastity to which she binds her priestess is ane of sickly, jaundiced, hue. In sick and green there is probably, every bit Delius suggests, an allusion to the "green-sickness" of which Shakespeare often speaks, and which in iii. 5. 157, beneath, Capulet applies every bit an epithet to Juliet in his acrimony at her refusal of Paris, "Out, you greenish-sickness feces! out, you baggage! You tallow-face up," — an disquiet of languishing girls characterized past a stake complexion. The reading of the start quarto is stake 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 past the Court fools; but it seems unlikely that Shakespeare would use the discussion fools in this literal sense when referring to Juliet, while, every bit Grant White points out, if such an allusion were intended, it would be obtained from the reading of the get-go quarto, pale, without the fierce modify to white; vestal livery. Vesta was the Roman goddess of the hearth, respective with the Greek Hestia, and her priestesses were vowed to a life of chastity and celibacy; cp. Per. iii. iv. x, "A vestal livery will I accept me to, And never more have joy." 12. what of that? only that matters trivial. 13. discourses, is eloquent in its mere look. xvi. some business, some individual affairs of their own which would be hindered by their having to perform their nightly duty of lighting up the sky. 17. in their spheres. According to the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, round about the globe, which was the centre of the system, were nine hollow spheres, consisting of the seven planets, the fixed stars or firmament, and the Primum Mobile; the spheres with the stars and planets in them being whirled round the earth in twenty-four hours by the driving ability, the Primum Mobile. 21. the blusterous region, the upper air; region, was originally a division of the sky marked out by the Roman augurs. In after times the atmosphere was divided into three regions, upper, eye, and lower. Cp. also Haml. 2. two. 509. 24, 5. O, that ... cheek, cp. Tennyson, The Miller'southward Daughter, 169-186. 28. winged messenger, angel. 29. white-upturned, turned up in adoration so that the pupils are scarcely seen. 30. fall back, stand back in awe, and also in gild to become a clearer view. 31. lazy-pacing, slowly drifting. Grant White compares Macb. i. 7. 21-v; lazy-pacing is Pope's conjecture for lasie pacing, of the offset quarto; the remaining quartos and the folios give lazie, or lazy, puffing. 34. refuse, disown, disclaim; cp. T. C. iv. 5. 267, "We have had rain wars, since you refused The Grecians' cause." 37. speak at this, answer her without allowing her to go further, interrupt her at this bespeak. 39. 1000 art ... Montague. Staunton explains "That is, every bit she afterwards expresses information technology, you would still retain all the perfections which ardorn you lot, were non called Montague"; and and so substantially Grant White, though Dyce calls such an explanation "unintelligible." Others follow Malone in putting the comma after though, every bit used in the sense of withal, with the caption that Juliet is merely endeavouring to account for Romeo's existence amiable and excellent though he is a Montague, to prove which she asserts that he merely bears the name, only has none of the qualities of that firm. Various emendations have as well been proposed, simply Staunton's caption seems to me quite satisfactory. 42. be another name, be somebody else in proper noun than Montague. Lettsom objects that Shakespeare could non take written "be another name"; but after the expression "What'due south Montague?", where "Montague" is used every bit though it were a matter, in that location seems no reason why we should non have "be another name." 46. owes, owns; as often in Elizabethan literature, the last n of the Thou. E. owen, to pcssess, being dropped. The modernistic sense of the word 'to exist in debt,' 'to exist obliged,' comes from the sense of possessing another'southward property, but the give-and-take has no etymological connection with to 'own' = to possess; it existence from the A.S. agan, to take, while the latter is from the A.S. agnian, to appropriate, merits as one's own, from agn, contracted form of agen, ane's ain (Skeat, Ety. Dict.). 47. doff, put off; exercise off, as don, do on; dup, exercise up; dout, practise out. 48. for thy name, in exchange for your proper noun. 53. So stumblest on my counsel, come so unexpectedly upon my clandestine thouglits; cp. M. N. D. i. 1. 216, "Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sugariness," i.due east. confiding to each other our inmost thoughts. 53, 4. By a name... am, if I could permit y'all know who I am without using a name, I would gladly practise so, for it is impossible for me to name myself without deplorable you. 55. saint. Delius points out that this word recalls their first meeting when, as a pilgrim, Romeo had thus greeted Juliet. 58. drunkard, unconsciously acknowledging the avidity with which she had listened to his words. 61. if either thee dislike, if either exist unpleasant to your ears; dislike is really impersonal, equally in Oth. ii. three. 49, "I'll do't; only it mislike's me." 64. And the place death, and to venture hither is to risk your life. 66. o'er-perch these walls, wing over these walls and settle here, as a bird settles upon a branch after a flight from another spot; a perch is literally a rod, bar, then 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 way and keep me out. 71. Alack, co-ordinate to Skeat, either a corruption of 'ah! lord,' or, which seems more probable, from ah! and Thousand. E. lak, loss, failure. 73. proof against, able to endure, hold out against; see note on i. ane. 216. 76. simply m love me ... here, except, unless, yous love me, I am quite willing that they should notice me here and kill me; without your beloved, life to me is not worth living. 78. Than death ... love, 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 just to enquire publicly, from pro-, publicly, and rogare, to enquire. 81. counsel, advice. 83. vast shore. "Lat. vastus, empty, waste" (Walker). 84. I would adventure for, I would make my voyage in quest of, however smashing the danger. 88. Fain ... form, gladly would I, if it were possible, stand on anniversary with y'all, treat y'all with distant formality; Fain, properly an adjective. 89. just farewell compliment, "only 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'south Fine art of Love, 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 information technology faithfully, assure me of your love without calculation an oath to confirm your words. 97. So, provided that. 98. fond, foolishly loving; addicted, originally fonned, the past participle of the verb fonnen, to human action foolishly, from the substantive fon, a fool. 99. low-cal, full of levity, wanton. 101. more than cunning ... foreign, more skill in affecting coyness. 104. passion, passionate confession; the give-and-take was formerly used of whatsoever strong emotion. 106. Which the night ... discovered, which (love) has been revealed to you by the darkness of the dark whose office should be to conceal; which you have discovered thank you to the darkness of the night. 110. circled, revolving; non, I call up, 'round,' every bit Schmidt explains. 111. also, equally. 113. gracious, attractive, finding favour in my optics; cp. T. A. i. 1. 429, "if ever Tamora Were gracious in those princely optics of thine." This is the reading of the first quarto, the other quondam copies giving glorious, which Grant White thinks more suitable to the context. 114.of my idolatry, that I worship. 117. I have ... to-nighttime, I feel no joy in now ratifying with oaths a contract between us. Like Romeo, i. four. 106-11, she has a presentiment of some evil befalling their plighted love. 118. unadvised, imprudent, formed without sufficient consideration. 121, two. This bud of love ... meet, this new dearest of ours, cherished in our hearts, may expand into full growth by the time nosotros next meet, equally beneath the summer'southward warmth the bud expands into a beauteous blossom. as that ... breast, "equally to that centre within my breast" (Delius). 126. satisfaction, Delius points out the double sense here of payment and comfort. 129. And withal ... again, and notwithstanding I wish I had non given information technology, in order that I might now again have the joy of giving it. 131. frank, liberal, free of manus; cp. Lear, iii. 4. 20, "Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all." 132. the thing I have. sc. her ain infinite love. 143. If that ... honourable, if your love is honourable in its intentions; for that, as a conjunctional affix, run across Abb. § 287. 145. procure to come, accommodate to accept sent. 146. the rite, sc. of marriage. 152. By and by, in a minute, direct. 153. arrange. Malone quotes from Brooke's poem, Romeus and Juliet, "and at present your Juliet you beseekes To cease your sute, and suffer her to alive emong her likes." 154. So thrive my soul — may my soul prosper (according equally I mean well to you), the final words existence broken off past Juliet'due south good day. 156. A thousand ... light, in reply to Juliet's wish of proficient-nighttime he says, nay, non good night only bad night, night made a thousand times the worse by the absenteeism of you who are its only lite. 158. toward ... looks, sc. as schoolboys become toward, etc. 159. Hist! Heed! 159, lx. O, for ... again! would that I had a voice that would bring back my gentle Romeo equally surely as the falconer's voice brings ack the tassel-gentle! "The tassel or tiercel (for so it should exist spelled) is the male person of the gosshawk; so chosen because it is a tierce or third less than the female...This species of hawk had the epithet gentle annexed to it, from the ease with which information technology was tamed, and its attachment to man" (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 beloved Romeo." 161. Bondage ... aloud, one fettered, constrained by fear of being overheard, like me, is as much unable to 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 cavern 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 be silent when anybody 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 blusterous tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." 166. silver-sweet, in innuendo to the sweet tone of bells made of silver. 167. attending, attentive. 173. to have ... there, in society to keep you standing there. 175. to have ... forget, then that you may continue to forget. 176. Forgetting ... this, forgetting that I have any habitation but this, forgetting that this is not 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. And so loving-jealous ... liberty, and then fond of it and yet so jealous of its getting its liberty. 186. shall say good night, shall continue saying 'adept night.' 188. so sweet to rest, having then sweet a resting identify. 189. ghostly father, spiritual father; father, a title given to cosmic priests. 190. my love hap, the skillful fortune that has befallen me; hap, fortune, chance, accident, from which we get to 'happen' and 'happy.' How to cite the explanatory notes: ______ Even more than... | Notes on Romeo and Juliet Juliet appears above at a window (phase direction). Shakespeare did not include this stage direction and it is not in Q1 or the Outset Folio. It was added in the 17th century and has remained e'er since, although some editors cull to place the direction right after Romeo'due south line "He jests at scars that never felt a wound" (1), while others insert it right before Romeo says "It is my lady, O it is my beloved" (x). 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