"I hourly learn
A doctrine of obedience," etc.
Scene II.—
4. [Reckoning.] Estimation, reputation.
9. [Fourteen years.] In Brooke's poem her father says, "Scarce saw she yet full xvi. yeres;" and in Paynter's novel "as yet shee is not attayned to the age of xviii. yeares."
13. [Made.] The 1st quarto has "maried," which is followed by some editors. The antithesis of make and mar is a very common one in S. Cf. ii. 4. 110 below: "that God hath made for himself to mar." See also L. L. L. iv. 3. 191, M.N.D. i. 2. 39, A.Y.L. i. 1. 34, T. of S. iv. 3. 97, Macb. ii. 3. 36, Oth. v. 1. 4, etc. On the other hand, examples of the opposition of married and marred are not uncommon in Elizabethan writers. Cf. A.W. ii. 3. 315: "A young man married is a man that's marr'd."
14. [All my hopes but she.] Capulet seems to imply here that he has lost some children; but cf. iii. 5. 163 below.
15. [My earth.] My world or my life; rather than my lands, my landed property, as some explain it. It was apparently suggested by the earth of the preceding line.
17. [My will,] etc. My will is subordinate to her consent. The old man talks very differently in iii. 5 below.
25. [Dark heaven.] The darkness of night. Cf. i. 5. 47 below.