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APPENDIX I

Defer imbracements till some fitter time,
Part for a while, you shall not be alone,
Till holy Church have ioynd ye both in one.

Rom. Lead holy Father, all delay seemes long.
Iul. Make hast, make hast, this lingring doth us wrong.
Fr. O, soft and faire makes sweetest worke they say.
Hast is a common hindrer in crosse way.

[Exeunt omnes.


The following corresponds in Q 1 to III. i. 94–114:

Mer. Is he gone, hath hee nothing? A poxe on your

houses.

Rom. What art thou hurt man, the wound is not deepe.
Mer. Noe not so deepe as a Well, nor so wide as a barne doore, but it will serve I warrant. What meant you to come betweene us? I was hurt under your arme.
Rom. I did all for the best.
Mer. A poxe of your houses, I am fairely drest. Sirra goe fetch me a Surgeon.
Boy. I goe my Lord.
Mer. I am pepperd for this world, I am sped yfaith, he hath made wormes meate of me, and ye aske for me to morrow you shall finde me a grave man. A poxe of your houses, I shall be fairely mounted upon four mens shoulders: For your house of the Mountegues and the Capolets and then some peasantly rogue, some Sexton, some base slave shall write my Epitaph, that Tybalt came and broke the Princes Lawes, and Mercutio was slaine for the first and second cause. Wher's the Surgeon?
Boy. Hee's come sir.
Mer. Now heele keepe a mumbling in my guts on the other side, come Benvolio, lend me thy hand: a poxe of your houses.[Exeunt.


The following corresponds in Q 1 to IV. i. 77 to end of scene:

Jul. Oh bid me leape (rather than marrie Paris
From off the battlements of yonder tower: