RoMeO & JuLiEt
AcT 2 ScEnE 4 A street. Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO 1 tonight: last night
MeRcUtIo Where the devil should this Romeo be? Came he not home tonight?1
BeNvOlIo Not to his father’s. I spoke with his man.
MeRcUtIo Why that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, Torments him so, that he will sure run mad.
BeNvOlIo Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet, Hath sent a letter to his father’s house.
MeRcUtIo A challenge, on my life.
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will answer it: accept Tybalt’s challenge to a duel
BeNvOlIo Romeo will answer it.2
MeRcUtIo 10 Any man that can write may answer a letter.
BeNvOlIo Nay, he will answer the letter’s master, how he dares, being dared.
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white wench’s black eye: i.e. Rosaline’s eye
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the very pin…butt-shaft: the centre of his heart is split by Cupid’s blunt arrow
MeRcUtIo Alas poor Romeo! He is already dead – stabbed with a white wench’s black eye;3
and is he a man to encounter run through the ear with a
love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt-shaft:4 Tybalt?
BeNvOlIo Why, what is Tybalt?
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Prince of Cats: Mercutio mocks Tybalt by calling him the ‘Prince of Cats’. This is a reference to the medieval story ‘Reynard the Fox’
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captain of compliments: master of social etiquette and polite manners
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84 prick-song: written music minim rest: a short pause in music
MeRcUtIo More than Prince of Cats,5
20 courageous captain of compliments.6 sing prick-song7
He rests me his minim rest8
I can tell you. O, he is the He fights as you
– keeps time, distance, and proportion. – one, two, and the third
in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button.
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