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Rom.	I pray thee, chide not: she whom I[C 1] love now 85 Doth grace for grace and love for love allow; The other did not so.

Fri.	The other did not so. O, she knew well Thy love did read by rote[E 1] that[C 2] could not spell. But come, young waverer, come, go with me, In one respect I'll thy assistant be; 90 For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households'[C 3] rancour to pure love.

Rom.	O, let us hence; I stand on[E 2] sudden haste.

Fri.	Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.[Exeunt.

SCENE IV.—The Same. A Street.

Enter Benvolio and Mercutio.

Mer.	[C 4]Where[C 5] the devil should this Romeo be? Came he not home to-night[E 3]?

Ben.	Not to his father's; I spoke with his man.

Mer.	[C 6]Why,[C 7] that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, Torments him so, that he will sure run mad. 5

1. 85. chide … I] Q 1; chide me not, her I Q, F.
2. 88. that] Q, F; and Q 1 and many editors.
3. 92. households'] Capell, housholds Q, houshould F.
4. 1–3.] As in Steevens; prose Q, F.
5. 1. Where] Q, F; Why where Capell (getting Why from Q 1).
6. 4, 5.] verse Q 1, Q; prose F.
7. 4. Why] Q, F; Ah Q 1 and many editors.

1. 88. read by rote] repeated phrases learnt by heart, but had no intelligence of the beggarly elements of true passion.
2. 93. stand on] it imports me much to be speedy (Staunton). So II. iv. 36; "who stand so much on the new form."
3. 2. to-night] last night, as in I. iv, 50.