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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's[C 1] by action dignified. Within the infant rind of this weak[C 2][E 1] flower Poison hath residence and medicine[E 2] power: For this, being smelt, with that part[E 3] cheers each part; 25 Being tasted, slays[C 3][E 4] all senses with the heart. Two such opposed kings[C 4][E 5] encamp them still In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will; And where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker[E 6] death eats up that plant. 30

Enter Romeo.^{[C 5]}

Rom.	Good morrow, father.

Fri.	⁠Benedicite! What early tongue so sweet[C 6] saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow[E 7] to thy bed: Care keeps his watch[E 8] in every old man's eye, 35

1. 22. sometime's] Capell; sometimes Q 1; sometime Q, F.
2. 23. weak] Q, F; small Q 1 and many editors.
3. 26. slays] F, staies Q (alone).
4. 27. kings] Q, F; foes, Q 1.
5. 30. Enter Romeo] Pope; after line 22 Q, F.
6. 32. sweet] Q, F; soon Q 1.

1. 23. weak] A gain on small Q 1, as opposed to power, line 24.
2. 24. medicine] Warburton conjectured medicinal, and Capell medicine's.
3. 25. that part] the odorous part; or, as Malone explains, "the olfactory nerves," with meaning together with. The comma after smelt is in F; absent from Q, which has a comma after part.
4. 26. slays] Mommsen accepts Q stays, in the sense "brings to a standstill."
5. 27. kings] Rowe reads kinds. Malone compares A Lover's Complaint, 202, 203.

   "Effects of terror and dear modesty,
   Encamp'd in hearts, but fighting outwardly."

6. 30. canker] the canker-worm, as in Midsummer Night's Dream, II. ii. 3; and Venus and Adonis, line 656.
7. 34. good morrow] Here a parting good morrow.
8. 35. watch] waking, as in Hamlet, II. ii. 148.