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SC. III.
ROMEO AND JULIET
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To see thy son and heir more early down.[C 1] |
| Mon. | Alas! my liege, my wife is dead to-night; Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:[E 1]210 What further woe conspires against mine[C 2] age? |
| Prince. | Look,[E 2] and thou shalt see. |
| Mon. | O thou untaught! what manners[E 3] is in[C 3] this, To press before thy father to a grave? |
| Prince. | Seal up the mouth of outrage[E 4] for a while,215 Till we can clear these ambiguities, And know their spring, their head, their true descent; And then will I be general of your woes, And lead you even to death: meantime forbear, And let mischance be slave to patience.—220 Bring forth the parties of suspicion. |
| Fri. | I am the greatest, able to do least, Yet most suspected, as the time and place Doth make against me, of this direful murder; And here I stand, both to impeach and purge225 Myself condemned and myself excused. |
| Prince. | Then say at once what thou dost know in this. |
- ↑ 210. breath] After this line Dyce (following Ritson) inclines to think the following line from Q 1 should be added: "And young Benvolio is deceased too."
- ↑ 212. Look] Steevens conjectures "Look in this monument, and," etc. "Look here," and "Look there" have been proposed. A pause, equivalent to a syllable, is perhaps intended after Look.
- ↑ 213. manners] Shakespeare makes the word, at pleasure, singular or plural.
- ↑ 215. outrage] passionate utterance, as in 1 Henry VI. IV. i. 126: "this immodest, clamorous outrage." Collier (MS.), outcry.
