"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a popular adage from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague.
Juliet: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
Although it is one of the most famous quotes from the work of Shakespeare, no printing in Shakespeare's lifetime presents the text in the form known to modern readers: it is a skillful amalgam assembled by Edmond Malone, an editor in the eighteenth century.
The first version of 1597, named "Q1", is believed to have been an unauthorised pirate copy or bad quarto provided to the printer by actors off the books: a memorial reconstruction.
It may also, separately, represent a version of the play improved and trimmed after rehearsals for more dramatic impact.
This is believed since there are textual oddities such as "false starts" for speeches that were presumably not clearly crossed out enough for the printer to spot.
Malone reasoned that the awkward half-line of "belonging to a man" could be reconnected into verse through correction with Q1.