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You are welcome, gentlemen!—Come[C 1], musicians, play.— A hall,[C 2][E 1] a hall! give room, and foot it, girls.—30 [Music[C 3] plays, and they dance. More light, you knaves! and turn the tables up,[E 2] And quench the fire[E 3], the room is grown too hot.— Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well.— Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin[E 4] Capulet, For you and I are past our dancing days;35 How long is 't now since last yourself and I Were in a mask?

Second Cap.

By 'r Lady, thirty years.

Cap.	What, man! 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much: Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio,[C 4] Come Pentecost as quickly as it will, 40 Some five-and-twenty years; and then we mask'd.

Second Cap.

'Tis more, 'tis more: his son is elder, sir; His son is thirty.

Cap.[C 5]

Will you tell me that? His son was but a ward two[C 6] years ago.[E 5]

Rom.	What lady is[C 7] that which doth enrich the hand 45

1. 29. gentlemen!—Come,] gentlemen come, Q.
2. 30. a hall] Q, Hall F.
3. Music … ] after line 29 Q, F.
4. 39. Lucentio] Q1, F; Lucientio Q.
5. 43. Cap.] Q, 3 Cap. F.
6. 44. two] Q, F; three Q1.
7. 45. lady is] Q1, Qq 3–5, Ff; Ladies Q; lady's several editors.

1. 30. A hall!] A cry to make room in a crowd, as in Middleton, Entertainment at Lord Mayor's, 1623 (ed. Bullen, vii. 373): "A hall! a hall! below, stand clear."
2. 31. turn the tables up] turn up the leaves of the tables. Singer quotes Cavendish, Life of Wolsey (ed. 1825, p. 198): "After that the board's end was taken up."
3. 32. fire] The time is mid July in Italy. In Brooke's poem the time is mid winter.
4. 34. cousin] kinsman; see Hamlet (ed. Dowden), I. ii. 64. Uncle Capulet, of the list of invitations, is probably addressed.
5. 44. His … ago] After this line Q1 adds a pleasing line, continued to Capulet: "Good youths I ( = i') faith. Oh youth's a jolly thing."