Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

"Prologue": (14). Whole no. 14.

"Chorus": end of act i. (14). Whole no. 14.

In the above enumeration, parts of lines are counted as whole lines, making the total in the play greater than it is. The actual number in each scene is as follows: Prologue (14); i. 1(244), 2(106), 3(106), 4(114), 5(147); Chorus (14); ii. 1(42), 2(190), 3(94), 4(233), 5(80), 6(37); iii. 1(202), 2(143), 3(175), 4(36), 5(241); iv. 1(126), 2(47), 3(58), 4(28), 5(150); v. 1(86), 2(30), 3(310). Whole number in the play, 3053. The line-numbering is that of the Globe ed.

INDEX OF WORDS AND PHRASES EXPLAINED

a (= one), [215]
a hall, a hall! [190]
a la stoccata, [221]
Abraham Cupid, [197]
abused (= marred), [247]
ache, [216]
adventure (verb), [200,] [266]
advise (= consider), [244]
afeard, [202]
affections, [169]
affray (verb), [238]
afore, [214]
afore me, [236]
against (of time), [236]
agate, [186]
airy tongue, [203]
all (intensive), [170]
alligator, [263]
amazed, [224]
ambling, [183]
ambuscadoes, [187]
amerce, [225]
anatomy, [234]
ancient, [168,] [206]
and there an end, [236]
antic, [191]
apace, [215]
ape, [198]
apt to, [219,] [235]
as (= as if), [216]
as (= namely), [254]
as (omitted), [170]
as (redundant), [272]
associate me, [265]
aspire (transitive), [223]
atomies, [186]
attach (= arrest), [271]
attending (= attentive), [203]
ay, [229]
ay me! [197,] [262]
baked meats, [256]
Balthasar (accent), [262]
bandying, [216,] [222]
bankrupt (spelling), [229]
banquet (= dessert), [195]
bate (in falconry), [227]
bear a brain, to, [179]
beetle-brows, [183]
behoveful, [253]
bent (= inclination), [202]
be-rhyme, [209]
bescreened, [199]
beshrew, [216,] [244,] [265]
betossed, [267]
better tempered, [234]
bills (weapons), [167]
bite by the ear, to, [211]
bite the thumb, to, [167]
blaze, [235]
blazon, [218]
bons, [209]
bosom's lord, my, [262]
both our remedies, [206]
bound (play upon) [174,] [183]
bow of lath, [182]
boy (contemptuous), [221]
brace, [273]
bride (masculine), [243]
broad (goose), [212]
broken music, [220]
burn daylight, to, [185]
button, [208]
butt-shaft, [207]
by and by (= presently), [224,] [236,] [273]
candles (night's), [237]
canker (= worm), [205]
cankered, [168]
Capel's, [262,] [270]
captain of compliments, [207]
carries it away, [221]
carry coals, to, [166]
carry no crotchets, [261]
case (play upon), [183,] [259]
cat, nine lives of, [221]
catched, [258]
catling, [261]
charge, [265]
cheerly, [190]
cheveril, [212]
chinks, [194]
choler (play upon), [166]
chop-logic, [243]
Chorus, [165]
circle (magician's), [198]
circumstance, [216,] [271]
civil (= grave), [227]
closed (= enclosed), [188]
closet (= chamber), [253]
clout, [207]
clubs, [167]
cock-a-hoop, [192]
coil (= ado), [216]
colliers, [166]
come near, [190]
comfortable (active), [271]
commission, [248]
compare (noun), [216,] [246]
compliment, [200]
concealed, [234]
conceit, [218]
conclude (transitive), [225]
conduct (= conductor), [223,] [270]
conduit, [242]
confessor (accent), [218,] [233]
confidence (= conference), [212]
confound (= destroy), [217]
confusions, [258]
conjurations, [267]
conjure (accent), [197]
consort (noun), [219]
consort (transitive), [223]
consort with, [219]
content thee, [192]
contract (accent), [201]
contrary (accent), [229]
contrary (verb), [193]
convert (intransitive), [193]
cot-quean, [257]
county(= count), [181,] [241]
court-cupboard, [189]
courtship, [233]
cousin (= kinsman), [223]
cousin (= uncle), [190]
cover (play upon), [180]
cross (= perverse), [253]
cross (= thwart), [267]
crow-keeper, [182]
crush a cup, [176]
crystal scales, [176]
cure (intransitive), [174]
curfew-bell, [256]
Cynthia, [238]
damnation (concrete), [245]
dare (play upon), [207]
dark heaven, [173]
date (= duration), [188]
dateless, [269]
dear, [232,] [265,] [267]
dear hap, [204]
dear mercy, [232]
death (concrete), [268]
death-darting eye, [229]
defy (= refuse), [267]
deny (= refuse), [190]
depart (= part), [220]
depend (impend), [223]
desperate, [236]
determine of, [229]
detestable (accent), [258]
devotion (quadrisyllable), [248]
Dian's wit, [171]
digressing, [235]
discover (= reveal), [201,] [224]
dislike (= displease), [200]
displant, [233]
dispute (= reason), [233]
dissemblers (metre), [230]
distemperature, [206]
distraught, [255]
division (in music), [238]
do danger, [265]
do disparagement, [192]
do hate, [234]
doctrine (= instruction), [172]
doom thee death, [223]
doth (plural), [165]
doubt (= distrust), [267]
drawn, [167]
drift (= scheme), [252]
dry-beat, [222,] [261]
dump, [260]
Dun in the mire, [184]
dun's the mouse, [184]
earth, 173, [196]
elf-locks, [187]
empty (= hungry), [267]
encamp them, [205]
encounter, [218]
endart, [181]
enforce (= force), [267]
engrossing, [269]
enpierced, [183]
entrance (trisyllable), [182]
envious (= malicious), [224,] [228]
Ethiope, [191]
evening mass, [247]
exile (accent), [225,] [232]
expire (transitive), [188]
extremes, [248]
extremities, [196]
faintly, [182]
fairies' midwife, [186]
familiar (metre), [232]
fantasticoes, [208]
fashion-mongers, [209]
fay (= faith), [195]
fearful (= afraid), [232]
feeling (= heartfelt), [240]
festering, [254]
fettle, [243]
fine (= penance), [193]
fire drives out fire, [174]
five wits, [185,] [211]
flattering (= illusive), [261]
flecked, [204]
fleer, [191]
flirt-gills, [213]
flowered (pump), [211]
fond (= foolish), [233,] [259]
fool, [179]
foolish, [195]
fool's paradise, [214]
for (repeated), [196]
form (play upon), [209]
forth, [169]
fortune's fool, [224]
frank (= bountiful), [201]
Freetown, [169]
fret, [237]
friend (= lover), [239]
from forth, [204]
gapes, [196]
garish, [228]
gear (= matter), [212], [264]
ghostly, [204]
give leave awhile, [178]
give me, [252]
give me leave, [216]
gleek, [260]
glooming, [273]
God save the mark! [229]
God shall mend my soul! [192]
God shield, [248]
God ye good morrow! [212]
good-den (or god-den), [170], [175], [219], [243]
good goose, bite not, [211]
good hap, [235]
good morrow, [170], [205]
good thou, [189]
gore-blood, [229]
gossamer, [217]
grandsire, [209]
grave (play upon), [223]
grave beseeming, [168]
green (eyes), [245]
green (= fresh), [254]
grey-eyed, [204], [209]
haggard (noun), [203]
hap, [204]
harlotry, [253]
have at thee, [167], [261]
haviour, [200]
hay (in fencing), [208]
he (= him), [240]
he (= man), [264]
healthsome, [254]
heartless (= cowardly), [167]
Heart's-ease, [260]
heavy (play upon), [170]
held him carelessly, [236]
highmost, [216]
high-top-gallant, [214]
hilding, [209], [243]
his (= its), [259], [270]
hoar (= mouldy), [213]
hold the candle, to, [184]
holp, [174]
homely in thy drift, [206]
honey (adjective), [216]
hood, [227]
hour (dissyllable), [216], [225]
house (= sheath), [270]
humorous, [198]
humours, [197]
hunts-up, [238]
I (repeated), [220]
idle worms, [186]
ill-beseeming, [234]
importuned (accent), [170]
in (= into), [262], [267]
in extremity, [181]
in happy time, [241]
in his view, [170]
in post, [273]
in spite, [168], [192]
inconstant, [252]
indite (= invite), [213]
infection (quadrisyllable), [265]
inherit (= possess), [173]
it fits, [192]
Jack, [213], [219], [261]
jealous (= suspicious), [267]
jealous-hood, [257]
joint-stools, [188]
keep ado, [236]
kindly, [211], [271]
king of cats, [221]
knife (worn by ladies), [248], [254]
label, [248]
labour (of time), [258]
lace, [210], [237]
Lady, lady, lady, [213]
lady-bird, [177]
lamentation (metre), [235]
Lammas-tide, [178]
languish (noun), [174]
lantern, [267]
lay (= wager), [178]
lay along, [266]
learn (= teach), [227], [253]
leaves, [218]
let (noun), [200]
level (= aim), [234]
lieve, [215]
light (play upon), [183]
lightning before death, [268]
like (= likely), [254]
like of, [181]
living (noun), [258]
loggerhead, [257]
long sword, [168]
love (= Venus), [215]
loving-jealous, [204]
Mab, [185]
made (= did), [273]
maidenhead, [177]
make and mar, [172]
makes dainty, [190]
mammet, [244]
man of wax, [179]
manage (noun), [224]
mandrake, [254]
manners (number), [272]
many's, [181]
marchpane, [189]
margent, [180]
mark (= appoint), [179]
mark-man, [171]
marriage (trisyllable), [196], [247], [272]
married (figurative), [180]
married and marred, [172]
masks (ladies'), [172]
me (ethical dative), [208], [219]
mean (noun), [233]
measure (= dance), [182]
merchant (contemptuous), [213]
mewed up, [236]
mickle, [205]
minion, [243]
misadventure, [262]
mistempered, [168]
mistress (trisyllable), [214]
modern (= trite), [231]
moody (= angry), [219]
mouse-hunt, [257]
moved, [168]
much upon these years, [179]
muffle, [267]
natural (= fool), [212]
naught, [230]
needly, [231]
needy, [241]
neighbour-stained, [168]
new (adverbial), [170]
news (number), [216], [242]
nice (= petty, trifling), [224], [265]
nightgown, [168]
nor ... not, [238], [241]
nothing (adverb), [169]
nuptial, [191]
O (= grief), [233]
o'er-perch, [200]
of (= on), [167], [216]
of the very first house, [208]
old (= practised), [234]
one is no number, [173]
operation (= effect), [219]
opposition (metre), [253]
orchard (= garden), [197]
osier cage, [204]
outrage (= outcry), [272]
outrage (trisyllable), [222]
overwhelming, [263]
owe (= possess), [199]
pale as a clout, [215]
paly, [249]
pardonnez-mois, [209]
partisan, [167]
parts (= gifts), [232], [244]
passado, [208], [222]
passing (adverbial), [172]
pastry, [256]
patience (trisyllable), [262], [272]
patience perforce, [193]
pay that doctrine, [172]
peace (metre), [243]
perforce (= by force), [272]
peruse (= scan), [267]
pestilent, [261]
Phaethon, [225]
pilcher, [222]
pin (in archery), [207]
pinked, [211]
plantain, [174]
pluck, [204]
portly, [192]
poor my lord, [230]
pothecary, [273]
pout'st upon, [235]
powerful grace, [205]
predominant, [205]
presence, [268]
present(= immediate), [264]
presently, [262]
pretty, [261]
prevails (= avails), [233]
prick of noon, [212]
prick-song, [208]
prince of cats, [207]
princox, [193]
procure, [239]
prodigious, [196]
proof (= experience), [171]
proof (of armour), [171]
properer, [215]
prorogued, [200], [248]
proverbed, [184]
pump (= shoe), [211]
punto reverso, [208]
purchase out, [225]
question (= conversation), [172]
quit (= requite), [214]
quote (= note), [183]
quoth, [179]
R, the dog's letter, [215]
rearward, [231]
reason coldly, [220]
rebeck, [261]
receipt, [241]
receptacle (accent), [254]
reckoning, [172]
reeky, [249]
remember (reflexive), [178]
respective, [223]
rest you merry! [175]
retort (= throw back), [224]
riddling, [206]
roe (play upon), [209]
rood (= cross), [179]
ropery, [213]
rosemary, [259]
round (= whisper), [195]
runaways' eyes, [225]
rushed aside the law, [232]
rushes, [183]
sadly (= seriously), [171]
sadness, [171]
savage wild, [267]
scales (singular), [176]
scant, [176]
scape, [219]
scathe, [192]
scorn at, [192]
season, [206]
set abroach, [169]
set up my rest, [269]
sick and green, [199]
siege (figurative), [171], [272]
silver-sweet, [203]
simpleness, [216], [233]
simples (= herbs), [216], [263]
single-soled, [211]
sir-reverence, [185]
skains-mates, [213]
slip (= counterfeit), [210]
slops, [210]
slow (verb), [247]
smooth (verb), [231]
so (omitted), [241]
so brief to part, [235]
so ho! [213]
solemnity, [192]
some minute, [273]
some other where, [171]
something (adverb), [266]
sometime, [187]
soon-speeding, [264]
sorrow drinks our blood, [239]
sort (= select), [253]
sorted out, [241]
soul (play upon), [183], [211]
sound (= utter), [231]
sour, [232], [267]
sped, [222]
speed, be my, [270]
spinners, [186]
spite, [198], [247]
spleen, [224]
spoke him fair, [224]
stand on sudden haste, [206]
star-crossed, [165]
starved, [171]
starveth, [264]
stay (= wait for), [261]
stay the circumstance, [216]
steads, [206]
still (= always), [269], [273]
strained, [205]
strange, [200], [227]
strucken, [172]
stumbling at graves, [270]
substantial (quadrisyllable), [202]
surcease, [249]
swashing blow, [167]
sweet my mother, [244]
sweet water, [266]
sweet-heart (accent), [257]
sweeting, [211]
sweetmeats, [187]
swounded, [229]
sycamore, [169]
tables (turned up), [190]
tackled stair, [214]
take me with you, [242]
take the wall, [166]
take truce, [224]
tassel-gentle, [203]
teen, [178]
temper (= mix), [241]
tender (noun), [244]
tender (= regard), [221]
tetchy, [179]
thank me no thankings, [243]
that (affix), [233]
therewithal, [273]
this three hours, [265]
thorough (= through), [207]
thought(= hoped), [258]
thou's, [178]
thumb, rings for, [186]
tidings (number), [241]
timeless, [271]
't is an ill cook, etc., [252]
Titan, [204]
toes, [190]
to-night (= last night), [185], [207]
torch-bearer, [182], [237]
towards (= ready), [195]
toy (= caprice), [252]
trencher, [188]
tried (= proved), [254]
truckle-bed, [198]
tutor me from, [219]
two and forty hours, [249]
two hours (of a play), [166]
two may keep counsel, [214]
Tybalt, [207]
unattainted, [176]
uncomfortable, [259]
uneven (= indirect), [247]
unfirm, [266]
unkind (accent, etc.), [270]
unmanned, [227]
unsavoury, [270]
unstuffed, [205]
untimely (adverb), [223], [273]
up (transposed), [253]
use (tense), [196]
utters (= sells), [264]
validity, [233]
vanished, [232]
vanity, [218]
vaulty (heaven), [238]
Verona, [165]
versal, [215]
very (adjective), [222]
view (= appearance), [170]
volume (figurative), [180]
volume (figurative), [180]
wanton (masculine), [203]
ware (= aware), [169], [200]
was I with you? [211]
weeds (= garments), [263]
well (of the dead), [258], [262]
well said (= well done), [193]
what (= how, why), [191]
what (= who), [194]
wherefore (accent), [200]
who (= which), [169], [188], [233], [242]
wild-goose chase, [211]
will none, [242]
wit, [235], [240]
with (= by), [170], [267]
withal, [169]
wits, five, [185]
worm (in fingers), [186]
wormwood, [178]
worser, [205], [221]
worshipped sun, [169]
worth (= wealth), [218]
wot, [232]
wrought (= effected), [242]
yet not, [199]
zounds, [220]

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