<< 4. doom: judgment, sentence.
<< 10. vanish'd: Shakespeare must be using "vanish'd" to mean "issued," but I can't see why.
<< 16. Be patient: compose yourself.
<< 20. world's exile: exile from the world.
<< 25. Thy fault our law calls death: our law decrees death as the punishment for your crime.
<< 33. validity: worth, dignity.
<< 34. courtship: (1) courtliness; (2) opportunity to woo.
<< 35. carrion-flies: Romeo is referring to ordinary flies, which feast on carrion—rotten meat.
<< 39. Still blush: always blush. as thinking their own kisses sin: as if they [Juliet's lips] think that their kissing [i.e., touching one another] is a sin.
<< 45. sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean: some quick means of death, no matter how contemptible.
<< 49. ghostly confessor: i.e., spiritual counselor.
<< 60. prevails not: is of no effect.
<< 63. dispute: discuss. estate: situation.
<< 75. taken: arrested. Stay a while: wait a moment. This is said to whoever is knocking at the door.
<< 77. simpleness: foolishness.
<< 84. he is even in my mistress' case: he is in exactly the same state as my mistress.
<< 85. sympathy: similarity [of suffering].
<< 88. an you be a man: if you are a man.
<< 90. O: i.e., fit of groaning.
<< 92. Death's the end of all: This is a saying, meaning "things can't be so bad—at least you're not dead."
<< 94. old: experienced, hardened.
<< 96. blood removed but little from her own: i.e., blood of a near relative (Tybalt).
<< 98. conceal'd lady: secret wife. to: about.
<< 106. this anatomy: i.e., my body.
<< 107. sack: attack and destroy.
<< 108. Hold: stop. Romeo does something, perhaps pulls out a dagger, that shows he wants to kill himself.
<< 111. unreasonable: irrational.
<< 112. Unseemly woman in a seeming man! / Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both: unseemly woman dwelling within one who seems to be a man, or [even worse] unseemly beast dwelling within one who seems to be both a man and a woman.
<< 115. better temper'd: stronger, more stable.
<< 119. Why rail'st thou on thy birth: why do you bittery complain that you were ever born?
<< 120-121. birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet / In thee at once: [your] birth, and heaven, and earth—all three—have combined to give you existence. Here "heaven" and "earth" are also metaphors for soul and body. The Friar's point is that it is senseless for Romeo to complain as he has been doing, because if he hadn't been born, if he didn't have a body or a soul, he would be nothing, and couldn't complain about anything.
<< 122. shape: human form. wit: intellect.
<< 123. like a usurer: Shakespeare is thinking of a usurer as a rich person who hoards his wealth and never puts any of it to its proper, productive use.
<< 126. form of wax: waxwork figure.
<< 131. Misshapen: deformed. conduct: guidance.
<< 134. thou dismember'd with thine own defence: you are blown to bits by that which should defend you from harm.
<< 146. as was decreed: as was already planned on and agreed to.
<< 148. watch be set: guard be posted. The watch would be set at dusk, but as it turns out, Romeo doesn't leave Verona until almost dawn.
<< 151. blaze: make known. friends: families.
<< 160. counsel: advice, philosophy.
<< 162. chide: scold. Romeo says to the Nurse, "bid my sweet prepare to chide," as though he deserves chiding from Juliet, but why? Because he killed Tybalt? Because he's going to be later than she expected?
<< 166. here stands all your state: all of your fortunes depends on what I am about to tell you.
<< 168. by the break of day disguised from hence: by the break of day go disguised from hence.
<< 170-171. he shall signify from time to time / Every good hap to you that chances here: he will tell you news, from time to time, of all the happenings that work to your benefit here in Verona.