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Lady Cap.

The people[C 1][E 1] in the street cry "Romeo,"190 Some "Juliet," and some "Paris"; and all run With open outcry toward our monument.

Prince.

What fear is this which startles in our[C 2] ears?

First Watch.[C 3]

Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain; And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before,195 Warm and new kill'd.

Prince.

Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.

First Watch.

Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man, With instruments upon them fit to open These dead men's tombs.[E 2]200

Cap.	O heaven![C 4]—O wife, look how our daughter bleeds! This dagger hath mista'en, for, lo, his house Is empty on the back[E 3] of Montague, And it[C 5][E 4] mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom!

Lady Cap.

O me! this sight of death is as a bell205 That warns my old age to a sepulchre.

Enter^{[C 6]} Montague and others.

Prince.

Come, Montague; for thou art early up,

1. 190. The people] Pope; O the people Q, F.
2. 193. our] Capell (Johnson and Heath conjec.); your Q, F.
3. 194, 198. First Watch] Capell; Watch Q, F.
4. 201. heaven] F, heavens Q (alone).
5. 204. it] Q (alone), is F.
6. Enter …] Capell; Enter Mountague Q, F.

gestion of the Cambridge editors, "that is so shriek'd abroad?"

1. 190. The people] Several editors retain O of Q, F.
2. 200. tombs] Here Q, which had "Enter Capels" line 188, has "Enter Capulet and his Wife."
3. 203. back] The dagger was carried on the back below the waist. See for evidence Steevens's note.
4. 204. And it] The force of lo, line 202, goes on from "his house" (the sheath) to it, the dagger. With the reading And is F, from for lo to Montague must be regarded as parenthetic. Mommsen conjectures "And it is mis-sheath'd."