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Lady Cap.

Good night: Get thee to bed, and rest, for thou hast need.

[Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse.

Jul.

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,15 That almost freezes up the heat of life:[C 1][E 1] I'll call them back again to comfort me. Nurse!—[C 2]What should she do here? My dismal scene I needs must act alone.— Come, vial.—[E 2]20 What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?[C 3] No, no:—this shall forbid it:—lie thou there.—[C 4][E 3] [Laying down a dagger. What if it be a poison, which the friar Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead,25 Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd, Because he married me before to Romeo? I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not, For he hath still been tried a holy man.[E 4]

1. 16. life] Q, fire F.
2. 18. Nurse!—] Hanmer; Nurse, Q, F.
3. 22. Shall … morning?] Q, F; Must I of force be married to the Countie? Q 1.
4. 23. No … there] Q, F; This shall forbid it. Knife, lye thou there Q 1.

1. 15, 16. I … life] So Brooke's poem: "A sweat as cold as mountaine yse pearst through her slender skin."
2. 20. Come, vial—] The dramatic pause following vial in this (Hanmer's) arrangement is disregarded by Keightley, who emends thus:

   "Nurse!—What should she do here? My dismal scene
   I needs must act alone. Come, vial, come!"

3. 23. lie thou there] Juliet had already provided herself with a dagger; see IV. i. 54. Gifford says that daggers were worn in Shakespeare's time by every woman in England. They certainly, as Steevens shows by several quotations which speak of "wedding knives," formed part of the accoutrements of a bride.
4. 29. For … man] Instead of this one line Q 1 has two, the second of which Steevens and other editors make part of the text:

   "He is a holy and religious Man:
   I will not entertaine so bad a thought."