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.