I have placed a (!) at the end of the first line; for Juliet is evidently speaking here in the ambiguous manner of her subsequent speeches. She means an indicative, but wishes her mother to understand her in the optative mood. The editors of the last century, not understanding this, have without any authority changed 'be' to _are_. In the next line _him_ was added in the 2nd folio. I should be inclined to make an _Aside_ of 'I do with all my heart,' as she pretends to plan his death. In the Globe Shakespeare the first line is made an _Aside_. * * * * * "My poor heart is so for a kinsman vex'd." Both 4tos and folio--followed by all the editors--read 'Is my poor heart,' connecting it with the preceding 'dead.' It is manifest they did not understand the ambiguous language of Juliet. * * * * * "To wreak the love I bore my cousin _Tybalt_." The necessary addition was made in the 2nd folio. * * * * * "When the sun sets the earth doth drizzle dew." The undated 4to reads _air_, and to talk of the earth drizzling dew appears no doubt to be absurd; but expressions as incongruous occur in these plays, and we have in Lucrece "But as the _earth_ doth _weep_, the _sun being set_." * * * * * "But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next." I cannot conceive why the editors all read _settle_; for 'fettle,' _i.e._ prepare, make ready, is the reading of the 4tos and folio. "But sells his team, and _fettleth_ to the war." Hall, Sat. iv. 6. "They to their long hard journey _fettling_ them." Silvester, Maiden's Blush. * * * * * "God's bread! it makes me mad; day, night, hour, tide [time], Work, play, alone, in company, still my care Hath been to have her match'd, and having now provided A gentleman of noble parentage." So I arrange this passage, in accordance with the old editions, except the first 4to, the reading of which is different, and is not verse at all. I omit 'time' as injurious to the symmetry of the language; for the words in the first two lines run, as will be seen, pairwise. It may have been a marginal note explanatory of 'tide.' As to the last line but one being of six feet, three such have already occurred in this scene. * * * * * "Oh! he's a lovely gentleman, _in sooth_." * * * * * "Or else beshrew them both.--Amen!--What to?" ACT IV. SC. 1. "And I am nothing slow to slack his haste." Collier's folio, mistaking the sense, reads '_some_thing.' 'To' is, so as to, that I should. Editors have not understood it. * * * * * "Be borne to burial in thy kindred's grave."