86. _Scathe._ Injure. S. uses the verb nowhere else; but cf. the noun in _K. John_, ii. 1. 75: "To do offence and scathe in Christendom;" _Rich. III._ i. 3. 317: "To pray for them that have done scathe to us," etc.
87. _Contrary._ Oppose, cross; the only instance of the verb in S. Steevens quotes Greene, _Tully's Love_: "to contrary her resolution;" Warner, _Albion's England_: "his countermand should have contraried so," etc. The accent in S. is variable. Cf. the adjective in iii. 2. 64 below.
88. _Well said._ Well done. Cf. _Oth._ ii. 1. 169, v. 1. 98, etc. _Princox_ = a pert or impertinent boy; used by S. only here. Steevens quotes _The Return from Parnassus_, 1606: "Your proud university princox." Cotgrave renders "_un jeune estourdeau superbe_" by "a young princox boy."
Coleridge remarks here: "How admirable is the old man's impetuosity, at once contrasting, yet harmonized with young Tybalt's quarrelsome violence! But it would be endless to repeat observations of this sort. Every leaf is different on an oak-tree; but still we can only say, our tongues defrauding our eyes, This is another oak leaf!"
91. _Patience perforce._ Compulsory submission; a proverbial expression. Nares quotes Ray's _Proverbs_: "Patience perforce is a medicine for a mad dog" (or "a mad horse," as Howell gives it). Cf. Spenser, _F.Q._ ii. 3. 3:--
"Patience perforce: helplesse what may it boot To frett for anger, or for griefe to mone?"
94. _Convert._ For the intransitive use, cf. _R. of L._ 592, _Much Ado_, i. 1. 123, _Rich. II._ v. 1. 66, v. 3. 64, etc. Some make it transitive, with _now seeming sweet_ (= "what now seems sweet") as its object; but this seems too forced a construction.
96. _The gentle fine._ The sweet penance for the offence; that is, for the rude touch of my hand. For _fine_ the early eds. have "sin" or "sinne." The emendation is due to Warburton; but some editors retain "sin."
105. _Let lips do_, etc. Juliet has said that palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. She afterwards says that palmers have lips that they must use in prayer. Romeo replies that the prayer of his lips is that they may do what hands do, that is, that they may kiss.
109. As Malone remarks, kissing in a public assembly was not then thought indecorous. Cf. _Hen. VIII._ i. 4. 28.