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Rom.	This day's black fate on more[C 1] days doth depend;[E 1]125 This but begins the woe[C 2] others must end.

Re-enter Tybalt.

Ben.	Here comes the furious Tybalt back again.

Rom.

Alive,[E 2] in triumph![C 3] and Mercutio slain! Away to heaven, respective[E 3] lenity, And fire-eyed[C 4] fury be my conduct[E 4] now!130 Now, Tybalt, take the "villain" back again That late thou gavest me! for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either[C 5] thou, or I, or both, must go with him.135

Tyb.	Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort[E 5] him here, Shalt with him hence.

Rom.	This shall determine that.

[They fight; Tybalt falls.

Ben.	Romeo, away! be gone! The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain: Stand not amazed:[E 6] the prince will doom thee death140 If thou art taken: hence! be gone! away!

1. 125. more] Q 1, Q 5; mo Q, F.
2. 126. begins the woe] Q 5; begins, the wo Q, F; begins the woe, F 4.
3. 128. Alive, in triumph!] Dyce, Alive in triumph Q 1, He gan in triumph Q (gon Qq 4, 5), He gon in triumph, F.
4. 130. fire-eyed] Q 1, fier end Q, fire and F.
5. 135. Either] Q, F; Or Q 1.

1. 125. depend] hang down, impend; as in Troilus and Cressida, II. iii. 21: "the curse depending [F, dependant] on those that war for a placket."
2. 128. Alive] Capell reads Again? in triumph?
3. 129. respective] regardful, considerate, as in Merchant of Venice, V. i. 156.
4. 130. conduct] conductor, as in V. iii. 116.
5. 136. consort] accompany, attend, as in Love's Labour's Lost, II. i. 178.
6. 140. amazed] confounded, stupefied, as often in Shakespeare.