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SC II
ROMEO AND JULIET
55
Rom. By a name
I know not how to tell thee who I am:
My name, dear saint,[E 1] is hateful to myself, 55
Because it is an enemy to thee:
Had I it written, I would tear the word.
Jul. My ears have yet not[C 1] drunk a hundred words
Of thy tongue's uttering,[C 2][E 2] yet I know the sound:
Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague? 60
Rom. Neither, fair maid, if either thee dislike.[C 3][E 3]
Jul. How cam'st thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?[E 4]
The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,
And the place death, considering who thou art,
If any of my kinsmen find thee here. 65
Rom. With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls,
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do that dares love attempt;
Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop[C 4] to me.
Jul. If they do see thee, they will murder thee. 70
Rom. Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.
  1. ↑ 58. yet not] Q, F; not yet Q 1.
  2. ↑ 59. thy … uttering] Q, F; that … utterance Q 1, Malone.
  3. ↑ 61. maid … dislike] Q, F; saint … displease Q 1.
  4. ↑ 69. stop] Q, F; let Q 1.
  1. ↑ 55. saint] recalling their recent meeting, I. v. 102. H. Coleridge compares Drayton, England's Heroicall Epistles, Henry to Rosamund:

    "If 't be my name that doth thee so offend,
    No more myself shall be my own name's friend."

  2. ↑ 59. uttering] Malone compares Edward III. (1596), II. i. 2: "His ear to drink her sweet tongue's utterance."
  3. ↑ 61. dislike] displease, as in Othello, II. iii. 49.
  4. ↑ 62. wherefore] accented as here in Midsummer Night's Dream, III. ii. 272 (Rolfe). See Walker, Shakespeare's Versification, p. 1ll.
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