For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. [Exeunt.
The Nurse and Peter
NOTES
Introduction
The Metre of the Play.—It should be understood at the outset that metre, or the mechanism of verse, is something altogether distinct from the music of verse. The one is matter of rule, the other of taste and feeling. Music is not an absolute necessity of verse; the metrical form is a necessity, being that which constitutes the verse.