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And usest none in that true use indeed Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit:[E 1]125 Thy noble shape is but a form of wax, Digressing[E 2] from the valour of a man; Thy dear love sworn, but hollow perjury, Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish; Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,130 Misshapen in the conduct of them both, Like powder[E 3] in a skilless soldier's flask, Is set a-fire by thine own ignorance, And thou[E 4] dismember'd with thine own defence. What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive,135For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead; There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee, But thou slew'st Tybalt; there art thou happy too:[C 1] The law that threaten'd death becomes[C 2] thy friend, And turns[C 3] it to exile; there art thou happy:140 A pack of blessings[C 4] light[C 5] upon thy back; Happiness courts thee in her[C 6] best array; But, like a misbehaved[C 7] and sullen wench,

1. 138. slew'st … too] Q 1, F 2; Q, F omit too.
2. 139. becomes] Q, became F.
3. 140. turns] Q, turn'd F.
4. 141. of blessings] Q, of blessing Q 3, or blessing F;
5. light] Q, F; lights, Q 1, Q 4.
6. 142. her] Q, F; his Q 1.
7. 143. misbehaved] Q 1, Qq 4, 5; mishaved Q; mishaped F.

1. 125. wit] understanding, or judgment.
2. 127. Digressing] deviating. New Eng. Dict. cites Golding, Calvin on Psalms, lxxi. 16: "As the other translation agreeth very well, I would not digresse from it."
3. 132. powder] Steevens: "The ancient English soldiers using match-locks … were obliged to carry a lighted match, hanging at their belts, very near to the wooden flask in which they kept their powder."
4. 134. And thou] And thou blown into fragments by what should have been thy means of defence.