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ROMEO AND JULIET
[ACT III.
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Therefore use none: let Romeo hence in haste,200 Else, when he's[C 1] found, that hour is his last. Bear hence this body and attend our will: Mercy but[C 2] murders, pardoning those that kill.[Exeunt. |
SCENE II.—The Same. Capulets Orchard.[C 3]
Enter Juliet.
| Jul. | Gallop apace,[E 1] you fiery-footed steeds, Towards[C 4] Phœbus' lodging:[C 5] such a waggoner As Phaethon would whip you to the west, And bring in cloudy night immediately. Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,5 That runaway's[C 6][E 2] eyes may wink, and Romeo Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen.[C 7] Lovers can see to do their amorous rites[C 8] By[C 9] their own beauties; or, if love be blind, |
- ↑ 201. he's] Theobald; he is Q, F.
- ↑ 203. but] Q, not F.
- ↑ Capulet's Orchard] Globe ed., Capulet's garden Capell, An apartment in Capulet's house Rowe, Juliet's apartment G. White.
- ↑ 2. Towards] Q, F; To Q 1;
- ↑ lodging] Q, F; mansion Q 1.
- ↑ 6. runaway's] runnawayes Qq 2, 3; run-awayes Qq 4, 5, F; run-awaies Ff 2, 3; run-aways F 4.
- ↑ 7. unseen.] Rowe; unseene, Q, F; unseene: Q 5.
- ↑ 8. rites] F 4; rights Q, F.
- ↑ 9. By] Qq 4, 5, Ff 2–4; And by Q, F.
- ↑ 1. Gallop apace] Malone: "Shakespeare probably remembered Marlowe's Edward II. iv. iii.:
'Gallop apace, bright Phœbus, through the sky,
And dusky night, in rusty iron car,
Between you both shorten the time.'So in Barnabe Riche's Farewell, 1583: 'The day to his seeming passed away so slowely that he had thought the stately steedes had bin tired that drawe the chariot of the Sunne, and wished that Phaeton had beene there with a whippe.'"
- ↑ 6. runaway's] See [[../../Appendix 3#197|Appendix III. p. 197.]]
