422. Have lost a brace of kinsmen :-] i. e. Mercutio and Benvolio. The line, therefore, And young Benvolio is deceased too which follows in quarto 1597, Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night; *should be restored to the text. REMARKS. 433. A glooming peace, &c.] The modern editions read-gloomy; but glooming, which is the old reading, may be the true one. So, in the Spanish Tragedy, 1605: "Through dreadful shades of ever-glooming night." To gloom is an ancient verb used by Spenser; and I meet with it likewise in the play of Tom Tyler and his Wife, 1661: "If either he gaspeth or gloometh." STEEVENS. 436. Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished :] This seems to be not a resolution in the prince, but a reflection on the various dispensations of Providence; for who was there that could justly be punished by any human law? EDWARDS'S MSS. This line has reference to the novel from which the fable is taken. Here we read that Juliet's female attendant was banished for concealing the marriage; Romeo's servant sét at liberty because he had only acted in obedience to his master's orders; the apothecary taken, tortured, condemned, and hanged; while Friar Lawrence was permitted to retire to a hermitage in the neighbourhood of Verona, where he ended his life in penitence and peace. STEEVENS. 438. Juliet and her Romeo.] Shakspere has not effected the alteration of this play by introducing any new incidents, but merely by adding to the length of the scenes. The piece appears to have been always a very popular one. Marston, in his satires, 1598, says: "Luscus, what's play'd to-day?-faith, now I know "I set thy lips abroach, from whence doth flow 66 Nought but pure Juliet and Romeo.” STEEVENS. THE END. SUBSCRIBERS ΤΟ BELL's Edition OF SHAKSPERE'S WORKS. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS GEORGE PRINCE OF WALES, THE PATRON. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS HER ROYAL HIGHNESS CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA MATILDA HER ROYAL HIGHNESS HER ROYAL HIGHNESS HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM, LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND. HER MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESSCOMPTE DE PROVENCE(Monsieur) BROTHER TO HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS COMPTE D'ARTOIS, BROTHER TO HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY. HIS EXCELLENCY THE MARQUIS DEL CAMPO, AMBASSADOR OF SPAIN. HIS EXCELLENCY COMPTE DE REVENTLOW, AMBASSADOR OF DENMARK. HIS EXCELLENCY COUNT LEHRBACH, HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S RESIDENT AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATES AT RATISBONE. A HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF ARGYLE. RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ABERGAVENNY. Abbot, -, Esq. Lincoln's-inn-fields. · Abbot, Mr. Craven-street. Abernethy, Mr. Catcaton-street. Abington, Mrs. of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden-2 copies. Abrams, Miss, North-street, Rathbone-place. Adair, Robert, Esq. Lincoln's-inn. Adair, Robert, jun. Esq. Barnes, Surry. Adams, Thomas, Esq. Swifts-place. Adams, Mr. Bookseller, Shaftesbury-2 copies. Addicot, Mr. Exeter. Addington, Mrs. Adeane, Mrs. Langbam, Suffolk. Akers, Mr. James, Beverley. Albin, Mr. John, Newport, Isle of Wight. Alexander, Mr. Hampstead-2 copies. Allen, John H. Esq. Allen, John, Esq. Percy-street. Allen, Mr. Thomas, Bookseller, Petworth. Allen and Co. Booksellers, Newark. Angelo, Mr. H. St. Alban's-street. Anderson, Mr. Broad-street, Carnaby-market. Andrei, Signor Ab. Andrews, J. P. Esq. Andrews, Mr. Bond-street. Angel, Mr. John, Tower. Annesley, Mr. All-Soul's-College, Oxon. Ansell, Mr. James, Craig's-court, Charing-cross. |