Note 152 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 2)
Reading edition
Sp. Trag. III. xiia (supra); Shoemaker’s Holiday, sc. ii, ‘this flowry banke’, sc. iv, ‘these meddowes’; 1 Hen. VI, II. iv, ‘From off this brier pluck a white rose with me’, &c. In R. J. II. i (Q1, but Q2 has apparently the same setting) Romeo enters, followed by friends, who say, ‘He came this way, and leapt this orchard wall’, and refer to ‘those trees’. They go, and in II. ii (presumably the same scene) Romeo speaks under Juliet’s window ‘ouer my head’. She says ‘The Orchard walles are high and hard to climb’, and he, ‘By loues light winges did I oreperch these wals’, and later swears by the blessed moon, ‘That tips with siluer all these fruit trees tops’.