You are welcome, gentlemen. Come musicians, play.
A ball! a ball! Give room. And foot it, girls]
These two lines, omitted by the modern editors, I have replaced from the
folio.
I.v.32 (37, 6) good cousin Capulet] This _cousin_ Capulet is _unkle_ in
the paper of invitation; but as Capulet is described as old, _cousin_ is
probably the right word in both places. I know not how Capulet and his
lady might agree, their ages were very disproportionate; he has been
past masking for thirty years, and her age, as she tells Juliet, is but
eight-and-twenty.
II.Prologue (42,3) _Enter CHORUS_] The use of this chorus is not easily
discovered; it conduces nothing to the progress of the play, but relates
what is already known, or what the next scenes will shew; and relates it
without adding the improvement of any moral sentiment.
II.ii.1 (45,1) He jests at scars] That is, Mercutio jests, whom he
overheard.
II.ii.7 (45,2) Be not her maid] Be not a votary to the moon, to Diana.