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ROMEO AND JULIET
[ACT II.

So loving-jealous[C 1] of his liberty.

Rom. I would I were thy bird.
Jul. I would I were thy bird. Sweet, so would I:
Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
Good night,[E 1] good night! parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow. 185[Exit.
[C 2]
Rom. Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!
Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!
Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell,[C 3]
His help to crave, and my dear[C 4] hap to tell.[Exit.

SCENE III.—The Same. Friar Laurence's Cell.[C 5]

Enter Friar Laurence, with a basket.[C 6]

Fri. [E 2] The grey-eyed[E 3] morn smiles on the frowning night,
Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light;
  1. 181. loving-jealous] hyphen Theobald.
  2. 185. Exit] Pope; omitted Q, F; after line 186 Ff 2–4.
  3. 188. father's cell] Q 1; Friers close cell Qq, Ff 3, 4; Fries close cell Ff 1, 2.
  4. 189. dear] Q, F; good Q 1.
  5. Friar Laurence's Cell] Malone; A Monastery Rowe; Fields near a Convent Capell.
  6. Enter …] Rowe; Enter Frier alone with a basket Q, F; Enter Frier Francis Q 1.
  1. 184. Good night] Cambridge: "This passage was printed substantially right in Q 1. The Q 2 inserted after the first line of Romeo's speech the first four of the Friar's, repeating them in their proper place." Further corruption in Q 3; intruding lines ejected, and speeches distributed aright in Qq 4, 5; F follows Q 3; "Pope restored the true arrangement." For further details, see Camb. ed.
  2. 1–4. The … wheels] Attempting to remedy the confusion recorded in the last note, Ff 2–4 omit these lines here, leaving them in our Scene ii.
  3. 1. grey-eyed] Tourneur in The Atheist's Tragedie, I. iii., has: "The gray eie'd Morning makes the fairest day." Grey may mean what we understand by the word, or bluish grey. See a fuller note on the word as it occurs in II. iv. 47.