36. _By the rood._ That is, by the cross; as in _Ham._ iii. 4. 14, _Rich. III._ iii. 2. 77, etc. For _alone_ the 1st and 2d quartos have "high-lone," which Herford, Dowden, and some others adopt. "It is an alteration of _alone_, of obscure origin" (_New Eng. Dict._) found in Marston, Middleton, and other writers of the time. In George Washington's _Diary_ (1760) it is used of mares. According to the description here, Juliet could not have been much more than a year old at the time. See on 23 above.
38. _Mark._ Appoint, elect. Cf. _T.A._ i. 1. 125: "To this your son is mark'd, and die he must."
40. _To see thee married once._ Once see thee married.
51. _Much upon these years._ Nearly at the same age. Cf. _M. for M._ iv. 1. 17: "much upon this time;" _Rich. III._ v. 3. 70: "Much about cock-shut time," etc. As Juliet is fourteen, Lady Capulet would be about twenty-eight, while her husband, having done masking for some thirty years (see i. 5. 35 fol.), must be at least sixty. See also on v. 3. 207 below.
55. _A man of wax._ "As pretty as if he had been modelled in wax" (Schmidt). Steevens quotes _Wily Beguiled_: "Why, he's a man as one should picture him in wax." White adds from Lyly, _Euphues and his England_: "so exquisite that for shape he must be framed in wax," and refers to iii. 3. 126 below. Dyce cites _Faire Em_:--
"A sweet face, an exceeding daintie hand: A body, were it framed of wax By all the cunning artists of the world, It could not better be proportioned."
60. _Read o'er the volume_, etc. Here one quibble leads to another by the power of association. "The _volume_ of young Paris's face suggests the _beauty's pen_, which hath _writ_ there. Then the obscurities of the fair volume are written in _the margin of his eyes_ as comments of ancient books are always printed in the margin. Lastly, this _book of love_ lacks a _cover_; the _golden story_ must be locked with _golden clasps_" (Knight).
62. _Married._ The reading of 2d quarto; the other early eds. have "severall," which some editors adopt. _Married_ = "closely joined, and hence concordant, harmonious" (Schmidt). Cf. _T. and C._ i. 3. 100: "The unity and married calm of states;" and _Sonn._ 8. 6:--
"If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear."