SC. I.
ROMEO AND JULIET
137
Turn to another, this shall slay them both: |
Fri. | Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[E 3] As that is desperate which we would prevent.70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will[C 3] to slay[C 4] thyself, Then is it likely thou wilt undertake A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to scape from[C 5] it;75 And, if[E 4] thou darest, I'll give thee remedy. |
Jul. | O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of yonder[C 6][E 5] tower; Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[C 7] |
- ↑ 60. long-experienced] hyphen Pope (F spells expetiens't).
- ↑ 66. Be … die] Q, F; Speake not, be briefe: for I desire to die Q 1.
- ↑ 72. of will] Q, F; or will Q 1;
- ↑ slay] Q 1, Qq 4, 5; stay Q, F; lay F 2.
- ↑ 75. from] Q, fro F.
- ↑ 78. yonder] Q 1; any Q, F.
- ↑ 79, 80. Or walk … bears] Q, F; Or chaine me to some steepie mountaines top. Where roaring Beares and savage Lions are: Q 1.
- ↑ 62. extremes] extremities, straits, sufferings, as in Troilus and Cressida, IV. ii. 108.
- ↑ 64. commission] authority, warrant, as often in Shakespeare.
- ↑ 69. an execution] Walker conjectures that an is an interpolation.
- ↑ 76. And, if] Delius conjectures An if.
- ↑ 78. yonder] Ulrici considers any Q, F more vigorous—any tower, no matter how high.