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SC. I.
ROMEO AND JULIET
133
Jul. | Or else beshrew them both.[C 61] Amen! |
Nurse. | Or else beshrew them both.[C 61] Amen! What?[E 1] |
Jul. | Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much. Go in; and tell my lady I am gone,230 Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell, To make confession and to be absolved. |
Nurse. | Marry, I will; and this is wisely done.[Exit.[C 1] |
Jul. | Ancient damnation![E 2] O most wicked[C 2] fiend![E 3] Is it[C 3] more sin to wish me thus forsworn,235 Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue Which she hath praised him with above compare So many thousand times?—Go, counsellor; Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.— I'll to the friar, to know his remedy:240 If all else fail, myself have power to die.[Exit. |
Fri. | On Thursday, sir? the time is very short. |
Par. | My father Capulet will have it so; |
- ↑ 228. What?] Hanmer reads To what? Keightley: What to?
- ↑ 234. Ancient damnation!] Steevens cites the same term of reproach from Marston, The Malcontent (1604). In Westward Hoe (Pearson's Dekker, ii. p. 306) we have "stale damnation!" used as here.
- ↑ 234. wicked fiend] Dyce (ed. 2) reads cursed with Q 1. S. Walker, thinking wicked "flat," conjectured wither'd.