69. _Have at thee._ Cf. iv. 5. 119 below; also _C. of E._ iii. 1. 51, etc.
70. _Clubs._ The cry of _Clubs_! in a street affray is of English origin, as the _bite my thumb_ is of Italian. It was the rallying-cry of the London apprentices. Cf. _Hen. VIII._ v. 4. 53, _A.Y.L._ v. 2. 44, etc. _Bills_ were the pikes or halberds formerly carried by the English infantry and afterwards by watchmen. The _partisan_ was "a sharp two-edged sword placed on the summit of a staff for the defence of foot-soldiers against cavalry" (Fairholt). Cf. _Ham._ i. 1. 140: "Shall I strike at it with my partisan?"
71. _Enter_ CAPULET _in his gown_. Cf. _Ham._ (quarto) iii. 4. 61: "_Enter the ghost in his night gowne_;" that is, his dressing-gown. See also _Macb._ ii. 2. 70: "Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us And show us to be watchers;" and _Id._ v. 1. 5: "I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her nightgown upon her," etc. It is early morning, and Capulet comes out before he is dressed.
72. _Long sword._ The weapon used in active warfare; a lighter and shorter one being worn for ornament (see _A.W._ ii. 1. 32: "no sword worn But one to dance with"). Cf. _M.W._ ii. 1. 236: "with my long sword I would have made you four tall fellows skip like rats."
73. _A crutch, a crutch!_ The lady's sneer at her aged husband. For her own age, see on i. 3. 51 below.
75. _In spite._ In scornful defiance. Cf. 3 _Hen. VI._ i. 3. 158, _Cymb._ iv. 1. 16, etc.
79. _Neighbour-stained._ Because used in civil strife.
84. _Mistemper'd._ Tempered to an ill end (Schmidt). Steevens explains it as = angry. The word occurs again in _K. John_, v. 1. 12: "This inundation of mistemper'd humour."
85. _Moved._ That is, "mov'd to wrath" (_T.A._ i. 1. 419). Cf. _L. L. L._ v. 2. 694, _J.C._ iv. 3. 58, etc.
89. _Ancient._ Not of necessity old in years, but long settled there and accustomed to peace and order (Delius).
90. _Grave beseeming_. Grave and becoming. Cf. _Ham._ iv. 7. 79:--
"for youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables and his weeds, Importing health and graveness."
92. _Canker'd with peace_, etc. _Canker'd_ (= corroded) is applied literally to the partisans long disused, and figuratively to their owners. Cf. _K. John_, ii. 1. 194: "A canker'd grandam's will."