99. _Freetown._ S. takes the name from Brooke's poem. It translates the _Villa Franca_ of the Italian story.
101. S. uses _set abroach_ only in a bad sense. Cf. 2 _Hen. IV._ iv. 2. 14: "Alack, what mischiefs might be set abroach;" and _Rich. III._ i. 3. 325: "The secret mischiefs that I set abroach."
109. _Nothing hurt withal._ Nowise harmed by it. _Who_ = which; as often.
110. _While we_, etc. This line, with the change of _we_ to _they_, is found in the 1st quarto in iii. 1, where Benvolio describes the brawl in which Mercutio and Tybalt are slain (Daniel).
113. _Saw you him to-day?_ This use of the past tense is not allowable now, but was common in Elizabethan English. Cf. _Cymb._ iv. 2. 66: "I saw him not these many years," etc.
115. _The worshipp'd sun._ Cf. iii. 2. 25 below: "And pay no worship to the garish sun." See also _Lear_, i. 1. 111: "the sacred radiance of the sun;" and _Cymb._ iv. 4. 41: "the holy sun." It is remarkable that no German commentator has tried to make S. a Parsee.
116. _Forth._ Cf. _M.N.D._ i. 1. 164: "Steal forth thy father's house," etc.
118. _Sycamore._ According to Beisly and Ellacombe, the _Acer pseudo-platanus_, which grows wild in Italy. It had been introduced into England before the time of S. He mentions it also in _L. L. L._ v. 2. 89 and _Oth._ iv. 3. 41.
119. _Rooteth._ Cf. _W.T._ i. 1. 25: "there rooted betwixt them such an affection," etc.
121. _Ware._ Aware; but not to be printed as a contraction of that word. Cf. ii. 2. 103 below.
123. _Affections._ Feelings, inclinations. Cf. _Ham._ iii. 1. 170: "Love! his affections do not that way tend," etc.
124. _Which then_, etc. "The plain meaning seems to be that Benvolio, like Romeo, was indisposed for society, and sought to be most where most people were not to be found, being one too many, even when by himself" (Collier). Some editors follow Pope in reading (from 1st quarto) "That most are busied when they're most alone."
127. _Who._ Him who; the antecedent omitted, as often when it is easily supplied.
131. _All so soon. All_ is often used in this "intensive" way.
134. _Heavy._ S. is fond of playing on _heavy_ and _light._ Cf. _R. of L._ 1574, _T.G. of V._ i. 2. 84, _M. of V._ v. 1. 130, etc.