II. 2. As there is no indication given in the Quartos and Folios of Romeo's entrance here, it is not impossible that in the old arrangement of the scene the wall was represented as dividing the stage, so that the audience could see Romeo on one side and Mercutio on the other. If this were the case it would tend to justify Capell's arrangement of _Hen. VIII._ v. 2, though in the present instance he makes no allusion to it. It is clear from the first line of Romeo's speech that he overhears what Mercutio says, and though we have not altered the usual arrangement, we cannot but feel that there is an awkwardness in thus separating the two lines of a rhyming couplet. NOTE V. II. 2. 152. Malone erroneously attributes the reading 'suit' to the Quarto of 1597. The words, 'To cease thy suit,' are found in Brooke's _Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Iuliet_, p. 21 of the reprint in Mr Collier's _Shakespeare's Library_. NOTE VI. II. 2. 184-II. 3. 5. This passage was printed substantially right in the Quarto of 1597. The Quarto of 1599 inserted after the first line of Romeo's speech the first four of the Friar's, repeating them in their proper place. In Juliet's speech, the same edition by printing one line as two, and mistaking the stage directions gave rise to a further corruption in the Quarto of 1609. In Q2 (1599) the passage stands: 'Good night, good night. Parting is such sweete sorrow, That I shall say good night, till it be morrow. _Iu._ Sleep dwel vpon thine eyes, peace in thy breast. _Ro._ Would I were sleepe and peace so sweet to rest The grey eyde morne smiles on the frowning night, Checkring the Easterne Clouds with streaks of light, And darknesse fleckted like a drunkard reeles, From forth daies pathway, made by _Tytans_ wheeles. Hence will I to my ghostly Friers close cell, His helpe to craue, and my deare hap to tell. _Exit._ _Enter Frier alone with a basket._ _Fri._ The grey-eyed morne smiles on the frowning night, Checking the Easterne clowdes with streaks of light: And fleckeld darknesse like a drunkard reeles, From forth daies path, and _Titans_ burning wheeles: Now ere &c.' In Q3(1609) we read: 'Good night, good night. _Ro._ Parting is such sweete sorrow, That I shall say goodnight, till it be morrow. _Iu._ Sleepe dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast. _Rom._ Would I were sleepe and peace so sweete to rest The gray-eyde morne, &c.' For the rest Q3 follows Q2 without any material variation, except that it reads 'fleckeld' for 'fleckted,' in the eighth line. The fourth Quarto, undated, has ejected the intruding lines and distributed the dialogue right. One error alone remains, viz. that 'Good night, good night ... sorrow' is divided still into two lines. The fifth Quarto follows the fourth.