Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

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Act 2 Scene 4

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Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO BENVOLIO and

MERCUTIO MERCUTIO
Where the devil should this Romeo Where the dev
be? Didn’t he come
Came he not home tonight?

BENVOLIO BENVOLIO
Not to his father’s. I spoke with his Not to his fathe
man. servant.

MERCUTIO MERCUTIO
Why, that same pale hard-hearted That fair-skinn
wench, that Rosaline, hussy, Rosaline
5 Torments him so, that he will sure him until he go
run mad.

BENVOLIO BENVOLIO
Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet, Tybalt, old Cap
Hath sent a letter to his father’s sent a letter to
house. house.

MERCUTIO MERCUTIO
A challenge, on my life. I bet it’s a chall

BENVOLIO BENVOLIO
Romeo will answer it. Romeo will an

MERCUTIO MERCUTIO
10 Any man that can write may answer Any man who
a letter. can answer a l

BENVOLIO BENVOLIO
Nay, he will answer the letter’s No, Romeo wil
master, how he dares, being dared. letter’s writer, t
accepts the ch

MERCUTIO MERCUTIO
Alas, poor Romeo! He is already Oh, poor Rome
dead, stabbed with a white wench’s He’s been stab
black eye, shot through the ear black eye. He’s
with a love song, the very pin of his ear with a love
heart cleft with the blind bow-boy’s his heart has b
butt shaft. And is he a man to Cupid’s arrow.
encounter Tybalt? this point to fa

BENVOLIO BENVOLIO
Why, what is Tybalt? Why, what’s Ty

MERCUTIO MERCUTIO
More than Prince of Cats. Oh, he’s He’s tougher th
the courageous captain of He does every
compliments. He fights as you sing fights like you
prick-song, keeps time, distance, attention to tim
and proportion. He rests his minim proportion. He
rests—one, two, and the third in breaks: one, tw
your bosom. The very butcher of a heart. He’s the
silk button, a duelist, a duelist, a any silk button
gentleman of the very first house of He’s a gentlem
the first and second cause. Ah, the school of fenc
immortal passado, the punto turn any argum
reverso, the hai! He knows pass
thrust—the pu
backhand thru
thrust that goe

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