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SCENE III.—The Same. Friar Laurence's cell.^{[C 1]}

Enter Friar Laurence.^{[C 2][E 1]}

Fri.	Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful[E 2] man: Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts,[E 3] And thou art wedded to calamity.

Enter Romeo.^{[C 3]}

Rom.	Father, what news? what is the prince's doom? What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,5 That I yet know not?

Fri.	That I yet know not? Too familiar Is my dear son with such sour company: I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.

Rom.	What less than dooms-day is the prince's doom?

Fri.	A gentler judgment vanish'd[E 4] from his lips,10 Not body's death, but body's banishment.

Rom.	Ha, banishment! be merciful, say "death"; For exile hath more terror in his look, Much more than death:[C 4] do not say "banishment."

1. Friar Laurence's cell] Capell.
2. Enter Friar Laurence] Capell; Enter Frier Q 1; Enter Frier and Romeo Q, F.
3. 4. Enter Romeo] Q 1, Dyce; after line 1 Capell.
4. 14. Much … death] Q, F; Than death it selfe Q 1.

1. Enter …] Friar Laurence has come from without; Romeo is hidden within; hence the directions of Q 1 seem right.
2. 1. fearful] full of fear, as often in Shakespeare.
3. 2. parts] gifts, endowments, as in III. v. 182.
4. 10. vanish'd] No such use of vanish is found elsewhere in Shakespeare, for breath vanishing from the lips like smoke (in Lucrece, line 1041) is not a parallel. Massinger, however, in The Renegado, V. iii., has: "Upon those lips from which those sweet words vanish'd," which Keightley supposes was written on the authority of the present passage. Heath conjectured issued. I suspect that banishment in the next line misled the printer; but possibly (and it is strange that this has not been suggested) Shakespeare wrote:

   "A gentler judgment—'banish'd'—from his lips."