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That living mortals, hearing them, run mad: O, if I wake,[C 1] shall I not be distraught,[E 1] Environed with all these hideous fears?50 And madly play with my forefathers' joints? And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud? And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone, As with a club, dash out my desperate brains? O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost55 Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body Upon a[C 2] rapier's point:—stay, Tybalt, stay!— Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.[C 3][E 2][She falls upon her bed within the curtains.[C 4][E 3]

SCENE IV.—The Same. Hall in Capulet's house.^{[C 5]}

Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse.

Lady Cap.

Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.

1. 49. O, if I wake] Hanmer; O if I walke Q, F; Or if I wake Qq 4, 5; Or if I walke F 2.
2. 57. a] Q, my F, his F 2.
3. 58. Romeo … thee] Q 1, Pope; Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, heeres drinke, I drinke to thee Q, F.
4. She … curtains] Q 1; omitted Q, F.
5. Hall …] Theobald (substantially).

1. 49. Distraught] distracted.
2. 58. Romeo, I come] Dyce suggests that heeres drinke, Q, F, may be a corrupted stage-direction foisted into the text. Daniel writes : "I incline also to believe that the triple repetition of Romeo in those editions may have been intended as an addition to the text as given in Q 1, to be murmured by Juliet as she falls asleep." Johnson read, "Romeo, here's drink! Romeo, I drink to thee!"; Knight (Stratford ed.), "Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, I drink to thee."
3. 58. She falls …] The Cambridge editors introduce this stage-direction from Q 1. Daniel writes: "The space 'within the curtains,' where Juliet's bed is placed, was the space at the back of the stage proper, beneath the raised stage or gallery which served for a balcony …; this was divided from the stage proper by a traverse or curtain."