Ill Tell Thee Ere Through Ask It Me Again I Have Been Feasting With Mine Enemy

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Romeo and Juliet: Act 2, Scene iii

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  Enter FRIAR LAURENCE, with a basket.

FRIAR LAURENCE
  1The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
  iiChequering the eastern clouds with streaks of calorie-free,

3. fleckled: dappled.
4. From along: out of the way of. Titan'southward fiery wheels: the sungod'due south chariot wheels.

  3And fleckled darkness like a drunkard reels
  4From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels.
  5At present, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
  6The day to cheer and night's chilly dew to dry,

7. osier muzzle: willow handbasket.

  7I must up-fill this osier cage of ours
  8With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
  9The globe that'due south nature'south mother is her tomb;
 10What is her burying grave that is her womb,
 11And from her womb children of defined kind
 12We sucking on her natural bosom discover:

13. virtues: properties, powers.
fourteen. None  . . .  different: none but have some [virtues, beneficial properties]. 15. mickle: great. grace: healing ability.
16.truthful: inherent.

 thirteenMany for many virtues excellent,
 14None simply for some and nonetheless all different.
 15O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
 16In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:
 17For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
 18But to the earth some special good doth give,

19-20. Nor  . . .  abuse: nor anything then good but, wrenched away from that beneficial employ, reverses its innate goodness, falling into calumniating uses.  21. turns: turns into.
22. And vice  . . .  dignified: and vice is sometimes, by the employ to which it is put, given the nobility of virtue. 23. baby rind: new peel.

 xixNor aught so skillful merely, strain'd from that fair use,
 xxRevolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.
 21Virtue itself turns vice, beingness misapplied;
 22And vice sometimes by action dignified.
 23Within the infant rind of this weak flower
 24Poison hath residence and medicine ability:

25. that part: i.due east., the olfactory property. each part: i.e., of the homo body. 26. stays all senses with the heart: stops all the senses and the heart; i.eastward., induces a mortal coma.

 25For this, existence smelt, with that part cheers each part;
 26Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.
 272 such opposed kings encamp them even so
 28In man likewise as herbs, grace and rude will;
 29And where the worser is predominant,

 30Total soon the canker death eats up that plant.

  Enter ROMEO.

ROMEO

 31Skilful morrow, male parent.

FRIAR LAURENCE
 31Benedicite!
 32What early tongue so sweetness saluteth me?
 33Immature son, it argues a distemper'd caput
 34So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed.
 35Care keeps his sentinel in every old human's eye,
 36And where care lodges, slumber will never lie;

37. unbruised: not hobbling [past life]. unstuff'd: unburdened, carefree.

 37Only where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain
 38Doth couch his limbs, in that location golden sleep doth reign.
 39Therefore thy earliness doth me assure
 twoscoreThou art up-roused by some distemperature;
 41Or if non so, then here I hit it right,
 42Our Romeo hath not been in bed tonight.

ROMEO
 43That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine.

FRIAR LAURENCE
 44God pardon sin! wast yard with Rosaline?

ROMEO
 45With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no;
 46I accept forgot that proper noun, and that proper noun's woe.

FRIAR LAURENCE
 47That's my skilful son: merely where hast thou been, then?

ROMEO
 48I'll tell thee, ere 1000 inquire information technology me again.
 49I take been feasting with mine enemy,

50. wounded me: i.e., struck me with the dart of beloved.

 50Where on a sudden i hath wounded me,
 51That'due south by me wounded; both our remedies

52. physic: ability to heal. Romeo means that Friar Laurence tin heal his love-wounds, and Juliet'south, also, by marrying them, but he'south being too witty to be clear. 54. intercession: petition [to you for help]. steads: helps. my foe: i.east., Juliet, who is Romeo'due south "foe" [in more than one manner] because his love for her is practically killing him.

 52Within thy help and holy physic lies.
 53I bear no hatred, blessed homo, for, lo,
 54My intercession besides steads my foe.

FRIAR LAURENCE

55. homely in thy migrate: simple in expressing your significant.
56. shrift: penance imposed by the priest after confession, implying absolution.

 55Be plainly, good son, and homely in thy migrate;
 56Riddling confession finds just riddling shrift.

ROMEO
 57Then apparently know my eye's dear love is set
 58On the fair daughter of rich Capulet:
 59Equally mine on hers, so hers is assail mine;

60. And all combined: i.e., Juliet and I are fully committed to each other. save: except for.

 60And all combined, salve what 1000 must combine
 61By holy wedlock. When and where and how
 62Nosotros met, nosotros woo'd and made exchange of vow,

63. pass: walk along.

 63I'll tell thee equally we laissez passer; just this I pray,
 64That thou consent to ally u.s. today.

FRIAR LAURENCE

65. Saint Francis: St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the offset order of Friars, the Franciscans.

 65Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!
 66Is Rosaline, whom one thousand didst love and so dear,
 67So soon forsaken? Young men's dearest then lies
 68Not truly in their hearts, but in their optics.

69. Jesu Maria: An expression of atheism, comparable to the electric current [C.East. 2018] "Jesus H. Christ!" deal of brine: i.e., corking quantity of tears.

 69Jesu Maria, what a deal of alkali
 seventyHath launder'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!
 71How much table salt water thrown abroad in waste product,

72. To season . . . taste: i.e., To flavor or preserve a love Rosaline did not intendance to taste.  73. The sunday non withal thy sighs from heaven clears: Friar Laurence is speaking of Romeo'southward sighs for Rosaline as mists the sun has not nevertheless burned abroad.

 72To season love, that of it doth not taste!
 73The sun not even so thy sighs from heaven clears,
 74Thy quondam groans band notwithstanding in my ancient ears;
 75Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit down
 76Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet:
 77If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,
 78Grand and these woes were all for Rosaline:

79. sentence: moral maxim.

 79And art thou changed? Pronounce this sentence then,
 eightyWomen may fall, when there'due south no strength in men.

ROMEO
 81Thou chid'st me frequently for loving Rosaline.

FRIAR LAURENCE
 82For doting, non for loving, pupil mine.

ROMEO
 83And bad'st me bury honey.

FRIAR LAURENCE
 83                                     Not in a grave,
 84To lay 1 in, another out to accept.

ROMEO
 85I pray thee, chide not. Her I love now

86. grace: favor.

 86Doth grace for grace and love for love allow;
 87The other did not then.

FRIAR LAURENCE
 87                               O, she knew well

88. Thy  . . .  spell: your [supposed] dearest recited the memorized phrases of beloved verse without understanding their meaning. ninety. In i respect: for 1 proficient reason. 91.happy: fortunate. 92.To: every bit to.

 88Thy love did read by rote and could not spell.
 89But come, young waverer, come, get with me,
 ninetyIn ane respect I'll thy assistant be;
 91For this brotherhood may so happy testify,
 92To plow your households' rancour to pure love.

ROMEO

93. stand on: (1) insist on; (2) am in great demand of.

 93O, allow us hence; I stand up on sudden haste.

FRIAR LAURENCE
 94Wisely and tedious; they stumble that run fast.

  Exeunt.

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