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ROMEO AND JULIET
[ACT III.
Enter Nurse.[C 1]
| Nurse. | Madam! |
| Jul. | Nurse?[C 2] |
| Nurse. | Your lady mother is coming to your chamber: The day is broke; be wary, look about. [Exit.[C 3]40 |
| Jul. | Then, window, let day in, and let life out. |
| Rom. | Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend. |
[Descends.[C 4]
| Jul. | Art thou gone so? love-lord, ay, husband-friend![C 5][E 1] I must hear from thee every day in the hour,[E 2] For in a minute there are many days:[E 3]45 O, by this count I shall be much in years Ere I again behold my Romeo! |
| Rom. | Farewell! I will omit no opportunity That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.50 |
| Jul. | O, think'st thou we shall ever meet again? |
| Rom. | I doubt it not;[E 4] and all these woes shall serve |
- ↑ 43. love-lord, ay, husband-friend] I have inserted hyphens; love and friend (as commonly) mean lover; otherwise a climax seems attempted with little success. I think that Juliet, trying to amass into names all the sweetness of their union, addresses Romeo as lover-lord, and then, reversing the order, as husband-lover, insisting (ay) on husband, and such a husband as is still a lover (friend). Many editors follow Q 1, "my lord, my love, my friend!"; others read "my love! my lord! my friend!" In the corresponding passage of Brooke's poem friend and friendship are used where we should use lover and love.
- ↑ 44. day in the hour] Collier (MS.) declines hyperbole, and reads "hour in the day."
- ↑ 45. For … days] Q 1 has For … hower … minutes, and adds Minutes are dayes, so will I number them: so Daniel, reading days for minutes in the first line.
- ↑ 52. I doubt it not] Daniel conjectures Ay, doubt it not.
