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Jul.	Or else beshrew them both.[C 61] Amen!

Nurse.

Or else beshrew them both.[C 61] Amen! What?[E 1]

Jul.	Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much. Go in; and tell my lady I am gone,230 Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell, To make confession and to be absolved.

Nurse.

Marry, I will; and this is wisely done.[Exit.[C 1]

Jul.

Ancient damnation![E 2] O most wicked[C 2] fiend![E 3] Is it[C 3] more sin to wish me thus forsworn,235 Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue Which she hath praised him with above compare So many thousand times?—Go, counsellor; Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.— I'll to the friar, to know his remedy:240 If all else fail, myself have power to die.[Exit.

ACT IV

SCENE I.—Verona. Friar Laurence's cell.^{[C 4]}

Enter Friar Laurence and Paris.

Fri.	On Thursday, sir? the time is very short.

Par.	My father Capulet will have it so;

1. 233. Exit] omitted Q, F; She lookes after Nurse Q 1.
2. 234. wicked] Q, F; cursed Q 1.
3. 235. Is it] Q, It is F.
4. Friar Laurence's cell] Capell.

1. 228. What?] Hanmer reads To what? Keightley: What to?
2. 234. Ancient damnation!] Steevens cites the same term of reproach from Marston, The Malcontent (1604). In Westward Hoe (Pearson's Dekker, ii. p. 306) we have "stale damnation!" used as here.
3. 234. wicked fiend] Dyce (ed. 2) reads cursed with Q 1. S. Walker, thinking wicked "flat," conjectured wither'd.