RoMeO & JuLiEt AcT 3 ScEnE 1 A public place. Enter MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, Page and Servants
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retire: go inside
Capels are abroad: the Capulets are about
3 scape a brawl: escape a fight 4
these hot…stirring: this hot weather encourages people to lose their tempers
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7 enters…tavern: goes inside a pub
claps me his sword: bangs his sword
by the operation…drawer: by the time the second drink has affected him, he draws his sword on the barman
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BeNvOlIo I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire.1 The day is hot, the Capels are abroad,2 And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl;3 For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.4
MeRcUtIo Thou art like one of those fellows that, when he enters the confines of a tavern,5
claps me his sword6 when indeed there is no need.
table and says ‘God send me no need of thee!’ – and by the operation of the second cup draws him on the drawer,7
BeNvOlIo Am I like such a fellow?
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as hot a Jack: as bad tempered a man
soon moved…to be moved: you are as quick to anger as you are angry at being provoked
MeRcUtIo Come, come. Thou art as hot a Jack8
BeNvOlIo And what to?
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an there…such: if there were two people like you
MeRcUtIo Nay, an there were two such,10
we should have none 11
hazel: 1. a type of nut 2. an eye colour (greenish-brown)
12 meat: nourishment 13 addle: rotten
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shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou? Why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast! Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel11
eye would spy out such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat,12 hath been beaten as addle13
14 doublet: jacket 15 riband: ribbon 16 tutor: teach
before Easter? With
eyes. What eye but such an and yet thy head
as an egg for quarrelling.
Thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun! Didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet14
another, for tying his new shoes with old riband?15 yet thou wilt tutor16
me from quarrelling! 17 An: If 18 fee-simple: full ownership 30
BeNvOlIo An17
I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man
should buy the fee-simple18 quarter.
106 of my life for an hour and a And in thy mood as any
in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and as soon moody to be moved.9
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