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SC. V.

ROMEO AND JULIET

151

Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.^{[E 1]}

Nurse.

O lamentable day!

Lady Cap.

O woeful time!30

Cap.

Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail,
Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak.^{[E 2]}

Enter Friar Laurence and Paris, with Musicians.^{[C 1]}

Fri.

Come,^{[E 3]} is the bride ready to go to church?

Cap.

Ready to go, but never to return.
O son, the night before thy wedding-day35
Hath Death lain with thy wife:^{[C 2]} see,^{[C 3]}^{[E 4]} there she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowered^{[C 4]} by him.
Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;
My daughter he hath wedded: I will die,
And leave him all; life, living,^{[C 5]}^{[E 5]} all is Death's.40

Par.

Have I thought long^{[C 6]}^{[E 6]} to see this morning's face,
And doth it give me such a sight as this?

Lady Cap.

Accurst, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!

↑ 32. Enter …] "with Musicians" omitted Q, F; present in Q 4.
↑ 36. wife] Q, F; bride Q 1;
↑ see] F 2; omitted Q, F.
↑ 37. deflowered] Q, F (deflowred), deflowred now F 2.
↑ 40. all; life, living] Collier, all life living Q, F; all, life, living Q 4.
↑ 41. long] F, loue Q (alone).

↑ 29. field] Pope and other editors add here from Q 1 the line "Accursed time! unfortunate old man!"
↑ 32. let me speak] In Brooke's poem Capulet cannot speak for grief; Shakespeare remembered this, but only to produce a dramatic touch of self-incongruity in the old man.
↑ 33. Fri. Come] Q 1 alone of early editions gives this line to Paris; it is followed by Staunton.
↑ 36. see] This added word of F 2 s also found in Q 1.
↑ 40. life, living,] From Capell onwards, various editors read life leaving. In the text living means possessions, the means of living, as where Antonio says to Portia (Merchant of Venice, V. 286): "Sweet lady, you have given me life and living."
↑ 41. thought long] desired. In Brooke's poem, anticipating his marriage, Paris' "longing hart thinkes long for theyr appoynted howre" (line 2274).

[3] 32. Enter …] "with Musicians" omitted Q, F; present in Q 4.

[5] 36. wife] Q, F; bride Q 1;

[6] see] F 2; omitted Q, F.

[8] 37. deflowered] Q, F (deflowred), deflowred now F 2.

[9] 40. all; life, living] Collier, all life living Q, F; all, life, living Q 4.

[11] 41. long] F, loue Q (alone).

[1] 29. field] Pope and other editors add here from Q 1 the line "Accursed time! unfortunate old man!"

[2] 32. let me speak] In Brooke's poem Capulet cannot speak for grief; Shakespeare remembered this, but only to produce a dramatic touch of self-incongruity in the old man.

[4] 33. Fri. Come] Q 1 alone of early editions gives this line to Paris; it is followed by Staunton.

[7] 36. see] This added word of F 2 s also found in Q 1.

[10] 40. life, living,] From Capell onwards, various editors read life leaving. In the text living means possessions, the means of living, as where Antonio says to Portia (Merchant of Venice, V. 286): "Sweet lady, you have given me life and living."

[12] 41. thought long] desired. In Brooke's poem, anticipating his marriage, Paris' "longing hart thinkes long for theyr appoynted howre" (line 2274).

[E 1]

[E 2]

[C 1]

[E 3]

[C 2]

[C 3]

[E 4]

[C 4]

[C 5]

[E 5]

[C 6]

[E 6]

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