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To make me die with a restorative.[Kisses him. Thy lips are warm!

First Watch.

[Within.][C 1] Lead, boy: which way?

Jul.	Yea, noise? then I'll be brief.—O happy dagger![Snatching[C 2] Romeo's dagger. This is[C 3] thy sheath;[Stabs herself.[C 4] This is[C 61] thy sheath; there rust,[C 5][E 1] and let me die.[Falls[C 6] on Romeo's body, and dies.

Enter Watch,^{[C 7]} with the Page^{[C 8]} of Paris.

Page.

This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn.170

First Watch.

The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard: Go, some of you, whoe'er you find, attach.—[Exeunt some.[C 9] Pitiful sight! here lies the county slain, And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead, Who here hath lain this[C 10] two days[E 2] buried.—175 Go, tell the prince; run to the Capulets;

1. 167. First Watch [Within]] Capell; Enter boy and Watch. Watch Q, F.
2. 168. Snatching …] Steevens.
3. 169. This is] Q, 'Tis in F.
4. Stabs herself] Kils herselfe F (at end of line), omitted Q, She stabs herselfe and falles Q 1;
5. rust] Q, F; rest Q 1.
6. Falls …] Malone.
7. Enter Watch …] Capell substantially, here, in place assigned by Q 1 (compare collation, line 167).
8. 170. Page] Capell, Watch boy Q, Boy F.
9. 172. Exeunt …] Hanmer substantially.
10. 175. this] Q these F.

1. 169. rust] Of course rest Q 1, which many editors prefer, may be right; but our best authority is Q, and rust would more readily be misprinted rest than vice versâ. Grant White, who had regarded rust as a misprint, altered his opinion, and wrote: "Juliet's imagination is excited, and, looking beyond her suicidal act, she sees her dead Romeo's dagger, which would otherwise rust in its sheath, rusting in her heart; and, with fierce and amorous joy, she cries, 'This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.'" 'Tis in of F is an attempt to emend the misprint 'Tis is of Q 3. Mr. Fleay proposes dagger lie In this, ending line 167 at noise.
2. 175. two days] See [[../../Act 4/Scene 1|IV. i. 105]].