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When thou didst bower[C 1] the spirit of a fiend In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh? Was ever book containing such vile matter So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace!

Nurse.

There's no trust,85 No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.[E 1] Ah, where's my man? give me some aqua vitæ: These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old. Shame come to Romeo!

Jul.	Blister'd be thy tongue90 For such a wish! he was not born to shame: Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit; For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd Sole monarch of the universal earth. O, what a beast was I to chide at him![C 2]95

Nurse.

Will you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin?

Jul.	Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth[E 2] thy name, When I, thy three-hours' wife, have mangled it?

1. 81. bower] Q, F; power Q 4; poure Q 5.
2. 95. at him] Q, him F.

1. 87. All … dissemblers] With the emphasis three times on all, and forsworn pronounced as a trisyllable, the line reads well enough. Daniel (after Fleay) reads:
   "all naught,
   All perjured, all dissemblers, all forsworn."
   Q, F make two lines from There's to dissemblers, the first ending men. The above is Capell's arrangement.
2. 98. smooth] With the literal meaning opposed to mangle, and the metaphorical meaning speak well of, flatter, as in Titus Andronicus, V. ii. 140: "smooth, and speak him fair." The idea is from Brooke's poem.