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Did murder her, as that name's cursed hand Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me,105 In what vile part of this anatomy[E 1] Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack The hateful mansion.[Drawing his sword.[C 1]

Fri.

Hold thy desperate hand: Art thou a man?[E 2] thy form cries out thou art: Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote[C 2]110 The unreasonable fury of a beast: Unseemly woman in a seeming man! And[C 3] ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order, I thought thy disposition better temper'd.115 Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself? And slay thy lady that in thy life lives,[C 4] By doing damned hate upon thyself? Why rail'st thou on thy birth,[E 3] the heaven and earth? Since birth and heaven and earth, all three do meet120 In thee at once, which thou at once wouldst lose. Fie, fie! thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit; Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all,

1. 108. Drawing …] Theobald; He offers to stab himself, and Nurse snatches the dagger away Q 1.
2. 110. denote] Q 1, Qq 4, 5, F; deuote Q; doe note F 2.
3. 113. And] Q F; Or Q 1.
4. 117. lady … lives] F 4; lady, . . lies, Q, F; Lady too, that lives in thee? Q 1.

1. 106. anatomy] a body or a "subject" for dissection; compare Twelfth Night, III. ii. 67.
2. 109. Art thou a man?] Shakespeare closely follows Brooke's poem, both here and in lines 119–121. See p. 192.
3. 119. birth] Romeo has not railed on his birth; but in Brooke's poem Romeus does so.