For manly reason is quite from of [off] thy mynd outchased,

And in her stead affections lewd, and fancies highly placed.

So that I stoode in doute this howre (at the least)

If thou a man, or woman wert, or els a brutish beast."

113. [Ill-beseeming.] Cf. i. 5. 76 above.

115. [Better temper'd.] Of better temper or quality. Cf. 2 Hen. IV. i. 1. 115: "the best temper'd courage in his troops."

118. [Doing damned hate.] Cf. v. 2. 20 below: "do much danger," etc.

119. [Why rail'st thou,] etc. Malone remarks that Romeo has not here railed on his birth, etc., though in Brooke's poem he does:—

"And then, our Romeus, with tender handes ywrong:

With voyce, with plaint made horce, wͭ sobs, and with a foltring tong,