Abstract
Both the couch of lasting night and the pallet of dim night, the dwelling place of death, seem to echo Job xvii. I3: grave is my house, and I have made my bed in the dark (Bishop's Bible). The Q2 reading in Romeo and Juliet deserves, perhaps, more serious consideration. Both Constance and Romeo are imagining death as a lover, and the imagery which surrounds the line in Romeo and Juliet accords with the Q2 reading: Juliet's body is doubtless on some kind of bier; Romeo speaks of death keeping her for his paramour; he imagines worms as chambermaids; he resolves to set up his rest; and, as he swallows the poison and takes his last embrace, Romeo is presumably beside Juliet on her bier, her pallet of dim night. The idea of a palace is, one might suggest, an intrusion into an otherwise coherent pattern of imagery. Given the support of the King John parallel, it could well be that the Q2 reading is correct.
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