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Your looks are pale and wild, and do import Some misadventure.

Rom.	Some misadventure. Tush, thou are deceived; Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.30 Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?

Bal.	No, my good lord.

Rom.

No, my good lord. No matter: get thee gone, And hire those horses; I'll be with thee straight. [Exit[C 1] Balthazar. Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night. Let's see for means:—O mischief, thou art swift35 To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts he[C 2] dwells, which[C 3] late I noted In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming[E 1] brows, Culling of simples; meagre were his looks,40 Sharp misery had worn him to the bones: And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator[E 2] stuff'd and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes,[E 3]45 Green earthen pots,[E 4] bladders and musty seeds,

1. 33. Exit] Rowe; after lord, line 32, Q, F.
2. 38. he] F 2, a Q, omitted F;
3. which] Q, F; whom Q 1.

1. 39. overwhelming] a word which Shakespeare connects with brows in Venus and Adonis, line 183, and Henry V. III. i. II.
2. 43. alligator] Malone notes that Nash in Have with You to Saffron Walden, 1596, refers to an "apothecary's crocodile or stuffed alligator" as part of his shop properties. It appears in Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode, plate iii. So, too, in Garth's Dispensary.
3. 45. empty boxes] Some details and words are imported into the play from the corresponding description in Brooke's poem.
4. 46. Green earthen pots] Halliwell quotes a letter, August 1594, from Sir J. Cæsar showing that the manufacture of these pots was carried on in