When, in 1859, Andrew Halliday produced, at the Strand, a "Romeo and Juliet Travestie, or the Cup of Cold Poison,"[38] he did better, I need hardly say, than his predecessor. His treatment of the balcony scene, for instance, was at least not vulgar:—
Romeo appears on the top of the wall and comes down ladder.
Rom. He jests at scars, who never wore a patch,
Or mounted garden wall and got a scratch
From row of broken bottles.
(Juliet appears on balcony.)
Jul.Ha! 'tis he!
Rom. Juliet!
Jul.Romeo! ah, yes! 'tis he!
Rom. Oh, say that name again!
Jul.Oh, me! oh!
Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Rom. Well, 'pon my soul, my love, my sweet, my dear,
I haven't got the most remote idea;
My father perhaps——