SC I
ROMEO AND JULIET
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Enter Romeo.
| Ben. | See where he comes: so please you, step aside;160 I'll know his grievance, or be much denied. |
| Mon. | I would thou wert so happy by thy stay, To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away. [Exeunt Montague and Lady. |
| Ben. | Good morrow, cousin. |
| Rom. | Is the day so young? |
| Ben. | But new struck nine. |
| Rom. | Ay me! sad hours seem long.165 Was that my father that went hence so fast? |
| Ben. | It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? |
| Rom. | Not having that, which, having, makes them short. |
| Ben. | In love?[C 1] |
| Rom. | Out—[C 2]170 |
| Ben. | Of love?[C 3] |
| Rom. | Out of her favour, where I am in love. |
| Ben. | Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! |
| Rom. | Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,175 Should without eyes see pathways to his will![E 1] Where shall we dine?[E 2] O me! What fray was here? Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. |
- ↑ 176. Should … will] Romeo laments that love, though blindfolded, should see how to reach the lover's heart. Staunton needlessly conjectures "set pathways to our will," i.e. prescribe to us our passion. Q1 reads, "Should without lawes give pathwaies to our will," i.e. lawless himself should rule our passions.
- ↑ 177. dine?] A lover, of course, could not seriously think of his dinner, Romeo wishes to turn aside Benvolio's inquiries.
