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ROMEO AND JULIET
[ACT III.
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But thankful even for hate, that is meant love. |
| Cap. | How now! how now,[C 1] chop-logic![C 2][E 1] What is this ? "Proud,"[E 2] and "I thank you," and "I thank you not";150 And yet "not proud":[C 3] mistress[E 3] minion, you,[C 4] Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds,[E 4] But fettle[E 5] your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next, To go with Paris to Saint Peter's church, Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.155 Out, you green-sickness[C 5] carrion! out, you baggage! You tallow-face![E 6] |
| Lady Cap. | Fie, fie! what, are you mad? |
| Jul. | Good father, I beseech you on my knees, Hear me with patience but to speak a word. |
| Cap. | Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!160 |
- ↑ 149. How now! how now,] Qq 3, 4 (with comma for !), How, how, howhow, Q, How now? How now? F, How, how! how, how! Capell;
- ↑ chop-logic!] Steevens (from Q 1), chopt lodgick. Q, Chopt Logicke? F.
- ↑ proud:] Q 4, proud Q.
- ↑ 151. And … you] Q, omitted F;
- ↑ 156. green-sickness] hyphen F 4 (and so tallow-face, line 157).
- ↑ 149. chop-logic] To chop is to barter, give in exchange; to chop logic, to exchange or bandy logic; a chop-logic is a contentious, sophistical arguer. Awdelay, Fraternitye of Vacabondes (1561), p. 15, New Sh. Soc. reprint: "Choplogyke is he that when his mayster rebuketh him of hys fault he wyll geve him xx words for one."
- ↑ 150. "Proud"] Hudson adopts Lettsom's conjecture:
"Proud, and yet not proud, and I thank you not;
And yet I thank you." - ↑ 151. mistress] pronounced probably as a trisyllable. Theobald reads Why, mistress.
- ↑ 152. Thank … prouds] Rolfe compares Richard II. II. iii. 87: "Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle."
- ↑ 153. fettle] Ff 2–4 read settle. The primary sense of fettle seems to be to gird up; hence to make ready, put in order. New Eng. Dict. cites Schole-House of Women (1561), 571, in Hazlitt's English Popular Poetry, iv. 127: "Our fily is fettled unto the saddle." See a long article in Wright's English Dialect Dict. Elizabethan and earlier examples are not uncommon.
- ↑ 156, 157. green-sickness carrion … tallow-face] The vituperative words dramatically suggest the pallor of Juliet; baggage, compare Cotgrave, "Bagasse, a baggage, queane, Iyll."
