214. [Manners.] S. makes the word either singular or plural, like news, tidings (see on iii. 5. 105 above), etc. Cf. A. W. ii. 2. 9, W. T. iv. 4. 244, etc. with T. N. iv. 1. 53, Rich. III. iii. 7. 191, etc.
216. [Outrage.] Cf. 1 Hen. VI. iv. 1. 126:—
"Are you not asham'd
With this immodest clamorous outrage
To trouble and disturb the king and us?"
There, as here, it means a mad outcry. Dyce quotes Settle, Female Prelate: "Silence his outrage in a jayl, away with him!"
221. [Patience.] A trisyllable. See on v. 1. 27 above. In the next line suspicion is a quadrisyllable.
229. [I will be brief,] etc. Johnson and Malone criticise S. for following Brooke in the introduction of this long narrative. Ulrici well defends it as preparing the way for the reconciliation of the Capulets and Montagues over the dead bodies of their children, the victims of their hate. For date, see on i. 4. 105 above.
237. [Siege.] Cf. the same image in i. 1. 209.
238. [Perforce.] By force, against her will; as in C. of E. iv. 3. 95, Rich. II. ii. 3. 121, etc.