38. [Mark.] Appoint, elect. Cf. T.A. i. 1. 125: "To this your son is mark'd, and die he must."
40. [To see thee married once.] Once see thee married.
51. [Much upon these years.] Nearly at the same age. Cf. M. for M. iv. 1. 17: "much upon this time;" Rich. III. v. 3. 70: "Much about cock-shut time," etc. As Juliet is fourteen, Lady Capulet would be about twenty-eight, while her husband, having done masking for some thirty years (see i. 5. 35 fol.), must be at least sixty. See also on v. 3. 207 below.
55. [A man of wax.] "As pretty as if he had been modelled in wax" (Schmidt). Steevens quotes Wily Beguiled: "Why, he's a man as one should picture him in wax." White adds from Lyly, Euphues and his England: "so exquisite that for shape he must be framed in wax," and refers to iii. 3. 126 below. Dyce cites Faire Em:—
"A sweet face, an exceeding daintie hand:
A body, were it framed of wax
By all the cunning artists of the world,
It could not better be proportioned."
60. [Read o'er the volume,] etc. Here one quibble leads to another by the power of association. "The volume of young Paris's face suggests the beauty's pen, which hath writ there. Then the obscurities of the fair volume are written in the margin of his eyes as comments of ancient books are always printed in the margin. Lastly, this book of love lacks a cover; the golden story must be locked with golden clasps" (Knight).
62. [Married.] The reading of 2d quarto; the other early eds. have "severall," which some editors adopt. Married = "closely joined, and hence concordant, harmonious" (Schmidt). Cf. T. and C. i. 3. 100: "The unity and married calm of states;" and Sonn. 8. 6:—