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Come, shall we go?

Ben.	Come, shall we go? Go, then; for 'tis in vain To seek him here that means not to be found.[Exeunt.

SCENE II.—The Same. Capulet's Orchard.^{[C 1]}

Romeo advances.^{[E 1]}

Rom.

He jests[E 2] at scars that never felt a wound.—[Juliet appears above at a window. But, soft ! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!— Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, 5 That thou her maid[E 3] art far more fair than she: Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick[C 2] and green,[E 4] And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.— It is[E 5] my lady; O, it is my love! 10

1. Capulet's Orchard] Globe.
2. 8. sick] Q, F; pale Q 1.

the sense camp-bed: line 897, "Loe here a fielde (she shewd a fieldbed ready dight), etc." This is an example earlier than any recorded in New Eng. Dict. Certain coarse words are called "field-bed words" by Massinger, Old Law, IV. ii. (meaning speech of the camp?).

1. Romeo advances] I indicate by these words that Romeo has not left the stage. He overhears Mercutio's words, and his opening line rhymes with Benvolio's last. Grant White argues that Scene i. is in the orchard, and he here continues the scene.
2. 1. He jests] Referring to Mercutio.
3. 6. her maid] A votary of the virgin Diana.
4. 8. sick and green] Collier pleads for his "old corrector's" white and green on the ground that these were the colours of the fool's livery under Henry VIII. Probably the word green-sickness suggested the epithets. See III. V. 156.
5. 10. It is] Grant White supposes that at this point Juliet steps out upon the balcony; previously only the light from her window was visible.