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Fri.	Hence[C 1] from Verona art thou banished:15 Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.

Rom.

There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence banished is banish'd from the world, And world's exile[C 2][E 1] is death; then "banished"20 Is death mis-term'd: calling death "banished,"[C 3] Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe, And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.

Fri.	O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness! Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind prince,25 Taking thy part, hath rush'd[E 2] aside the law, And turn'd that black word death to banishment: This is dear[C 4] mercy, and thou seest it not.

Rom.

'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here, Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog30 And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not: more validity,[E 3] More honourable state, more courtship[E 4] lives In carrion flies than Romeo: they may seize35

1. 15. Hence] Q 1; Here Q, F.
2. 20. world's exile] Q, F; world exilde Q 1; world-exil'd Pope.
3. 21. "banished"] Q, F; banishment Q 1.
4. 28. dear] Q, F; meere Q 1.

1. 20. exile] The accent is variable; see line 13 and line 43.
2. 26. rush'd] Capell conjectured push'd, Collier (MS.) has brush'd. Schmidt explains rush'd aside as eluded, comparing Measure for Measure, I. iv. 63: "have run by the hideous law."
3. 33. validity] worth, value, as in All's Well, V. iii. 192, and Lear, I. i. 83: "this ample third of our fair kingdom, No less in space, validity, and pleasure."
4. 34. courtship] Schmidt compares As You Like It, III. ii. 364: "an inland man, one that knew courtship well, for there he fell in love," as another example of the word with the two meanings of civility, courtliness and courting, wooing, blent into one.