I.iv.37 (28,8) for I am proverb'd with a grand-sire phrase] The grandsire phrase is--_The black ox has trod upon my foot_. I.iv.42 (30,1) Or (save your reverence) love] The word _or_ obscures the sentence; we ahould read _O_! for _or love_. Mercutio having called the affection vith which Romeo was entangled by so disrespectful a word as _mire_, cries out, O! save your reverence, love. I.iv.84 (34,7) Spanish blades] A sword is called a toledo, from the excellence of the Toletan steel. So Gratius, "--Ensis Toletanus "Unda Tagi non est alie celebranda metallo, Utilis in cives est ibi lamna sues." I.iv.113 (35,9) Direct my sail:] [I have restored this reading from the elder quarto, as being more congruous to the metaphor in the preceding line. _Suit_ is the reading of the folio. STEEVENS.] _Direct my suit_! Guide the _sequel_ of the adventure. I.v.27 (37,4) 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. II.ii.10 (45,3) It is my lady; O! it is my love; O, that she knew we were!] This line and half I have replaced. II.ii.39 (47,7) Thou art thyself, though not a Montague] I think the true reading is, Thou art thyself, _then_ not a Montague. Thou art a being of peculiar excellence, and hast none of the malignity of the family, from which thou hast thy name.--Hanmer reads, Thour't not _thyself_ so, _though_ a Montague. II.iii.15 (53,6) the powerful grace, that lies/In plants] Efficacious virtue. II.iii.27 (53,7) Two such opposed foes encamp them still] [W: opposed kin] _Foes_ may be the right reading, or _kings_, but I think _kin_ can hardly be admitted. Two _kings_ are two opposite _powers_, two contending _potentates_, in both the natural and moral world. The word _encamp_ is proper to _commanders_. (see 1765, VIII, 46, 2) II.iv.20 (57,3) courageous captain of compliments] A complete master of all the laws of ceremony, the principal man in the doctrine of punctilio. "A man of compliments, whom right and wrong "Have chose as umpire;"