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SC. III.
ROMEO AND JULIET
65

And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised[E 1] youth with unstuff'd brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:
Therefore thy earliness doth me assure
Thou art up-roused by[C 1] some distemperature[E 2]; 40
Or if not so, then here I hit it right,
Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night.

Rom. That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine.
Fri. God pardon sin! wast thou with Rosaline?
Rom. With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no; 45
I have forgot that name, and that name's woe.
Fri. That's my good son: but where hast thou been, then?
Rom. I'll tell thee, ere thou ask it me again.
I have been feasting with mine enemy,
Where on a sudden one hath wounded me, 50
That's by me wounded: both our remedies[E 3]
Within thy help and holy physic lies:
I bear no hatred, blessed man; for, lo,
My intercession likewise steads[E 4] my foe.
Fri. Be plain, good son, and[C 2] homely in thy drift; 55
Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.
Rom. Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set
On the fair daughter of rich Capulet:
As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine;
And all combined, save what thou must combine 60
  1. 40. by Q 1; with Q, F.
  2. 55. and] Q, rest F.
  1. 37. unbruised] Collier (MS.) has unbusied.
  2. 40. distemperature] disturbance of mind, or of body.
  3. 51. both our remedies] the remedy of us both; so "both our mothers," the mother of us both, All's Well, I. iii. 160.
  4. 54. steads] benefits, as frequently in Shakespeare.