SCENE V. Juliet's Chamber. Enter ROMEO and JULIET. Jul. Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day: Rom. It was the lark, the herald of the morn, I'll say, yon grey is not the morning's eye, 9 Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree :] This is not merely a poetical supposition. It is observed of the nightingale, that, if undisturbed, she sits and sings upon the same tree for many weeks together. 1 the pale reflex—] The appearance of a cloud opposed to the moon. ? I have more care to stay-] Care for inclination. Jul. It is, it is, hie hence, be gone, away; Straining harsh discords, and unpleasing sharps. Some say, the lark and loathed toad change eyes; Nurse. Your lady mother's coming to your chamber: The day is broke; be wary, look about. [Exit Nurse. Jul. Then, window, let day in, and let life out. Rom. Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend. [ROMEO descends. my lord! my Jul. Art thou gone so? friend! my love! I must hear from thee every day i'the hour, Rom. Farewell! I will omit no opportunity 3 sweet division;] Division seems to have been the technical phrase for the pauses or parts of a musical composition. + Hunting thee hence with hunts-up to the day.] The hunts-up was the name of the tune anciently played to wake the hunters, and collect them together. But a huntsup also signified a morning song to a new-married woman, the day after her marriage, and is used here in that sense. Rom. I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our time to come. Jul. O God! I have an ill-divining soul; Adieu! adieu ! [Exit ROMEO. Jul. O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle: La. Cap. [within.] Ho, daughter! are you up? Enter Lady Capulet. La. Cap. Why, how now, Juliet? Jul. Madam, I am not well. La. Cap. Evermore weeping for your cousin's death? What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? An if thou could'st, thou could'st not make him live; Therefore have done: Some grief shows much of love; But much of grief shows still some want of wit. Jul. Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss. Jul. › That is renown'd for faith?] This Romeo, so renown'd for faith, was but the day before dying for love of another woman: yet this is natural. Romeo was the darling object of Juliet's love, and Romeo was, of course, to have every excellence. 6 procures her hither?] Procures for brings. |