{"id":9214,"date":"2025-09-02T18:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9214"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:14:06","slug":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-act-i-scene-i-15","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9214","title":{"rendered":"Romeo and Juliet: Act I, Scene iv"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Romeo and Juliet.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Act 1, Scene 4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Romeo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=9206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Bonnie J. Monte and Isaac Hickox-Young<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">open a scanned version<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">open up a First Folio version<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Romeo<\/strong>\n101.  Peace, Peace, Mercutio, peace.\n102.  Thou talk\u2019st of nothing.\n\n<strong>Mercutio<\/strong>\n\u00a0                                                 True, I talk of dreams,\n103.  Which are the children of an idle brain,\n104.  Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,\n105.  Which is as thin of substance as the air\n106.  And more inconstant than the wind, who woos\n107.  Even now the frozen bosom of the north\n108.  And, being angered, puffs away from thence,\n109.  Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.\n\n<strong>Benvolio<\/strong>\n110. This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves.\n111.  Supper is done, and we shall come too late.\n\nRomeo\n112.  I fear too early, for my mind misgives\n113.  Some consequence yet hanging in the stars\n114.  Shall bitterly begin his fearful date\n115.  With this night\u2019s revels, and expire the term\n116.  Of a despis\u00e8d life closed in my breast\n117.  By some vile forfeit of untimely death.\n118.  But he that hath the steerage of my course,\n119.  Direct my sail. On, lusty gentlemen.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romeo and Juliet.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Act 1, Scene 4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Romeo (This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Bonnie J. Monte and Isaac Hickox-Young) Click here to open a scanned version. Click here to open up a First Folio version Romeo 101. Peace, Peace, Mercutio, peace. 102. Thou talk\u2019st of nothing. Mercutio \u00a0 True, I talk of dreams, 103.<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9214' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-2oC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9225,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9214\/revisions\/9225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}