Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Volume 24 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...Sr., Coll., H., and W. The antithesis of make and mar is a very common one in S. Cf. ii. 4. 110 below: "that God hath made for himself to mar." See alsoL. L. L. iv. 3. 191, M. N.D. i. 2. 39, A. Y. L.i.l. 34, T. of S. iv. 3. 97, Macb. ii. 3. 36, Oth. v. 1. 4, etc. On the other hand, Steevens quotes an example of the opposition of married and marred from Puttenham, Art of Poesie: "The maid that soon married is, soon marred is;" and Sr. adds from Flecknoe's Epigrams: "You're to be marr'd or marryed, as they say, To-day or to-morrow, to-morrow or to-day." See also A. W. ii. 3. 315: "A young man married is a man that's marr'd." 14. The earth. The reading of the 4th and 5th quartos; the earlier quartos and the 1st folio omit The, and the later folios have "Earth up." 15. My earth. Steevens and Schmidt make this=my lands, my landed property; Mason explains it as "mycorporal part." It seems better, with Ulrici, to understand it as "my world, my life." It was apparently suggested by the earth of the preceding line. 17. My will, etc. "My will is only a part of her consent, belongs to her consent " (Delius). The old man talks very differently in iii. 5 below. 23. Makes. Capell conjectured "make;" but it is probably an example of what Abbott (Gr. 412) calls "confusion of proximity." 25. Dark heaven. Warb. thought "this nonsense should be reformed" by reading "dark even;" but dark heaven obviously means the dark sky of evening or night. As K. notes, passages in the masquerade scene seem to indicate that the banqueting-room opened into a garden. See i. 5.43 below. 26. Young men. Johnson conjectured "yeomen," which Daniel endorses. Malone compa...