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This page contains the original text of Act 2, Scene 4 of Romeo & Juliet. Shakespeare’s original text is extremely long, so we’ve split the text into one Act & Scene per page. All acts & scenes are listed on the page, or linked to from the bottom of this page. ACT 2, SCENE 4. A street.Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIOMERCUTIOWhere the devil should this Romeo be?Came he not home to-night?BENVOLIONot to his father’s; I spoke with his man.MERCUTIOAh, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline.Torments him so, that he will sure run mad.BENVOLIOTybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet,Hath sent a letter to his father’s house.MERCUTIOA challenge, on my life.BENVOLIORomeo will answer it.MERCUTIOAny man that can write may answer a letter.BENVOLIONay, he will answer the letter’s master, how hedares, being dared.MERCUTIOAlas poor Romeo! He is already dead; stabbed with awhite wench’s black eye; shot through the ear with alove-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with theblind bow-boy’s butt-shaft: and is he a man toencounter Tybalt?BENVOLIOWhy, what is Tybalt?MERCUTIOMore than prince of cats, I can tell you.
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O, he isthe courageous captain of compliments. He fights asyou sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, andproportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, andthe third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silkbutton, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of thevery first house, of the first and second cause:ah, the immortal passado! The punto reverso! Thehai!BENVOLIOThe what?MERCUTIOThe pox of such antic, lisping, affectingfantasticoes; these new tuners of accents! ‘By Jesu,a very good blade!
A very tall man! A very goodwhore!’ Why, is not this a lamentable thing,grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted withthese strange flies, these fashion-mongers, theseperdona-mi’s, who stand so much on the new form,that they cannot at ease on the old bench? O, theirbones, their bones!Enter ROMEOBENVOLIOHere comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.MERCUTIOWithout his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh,how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbersthat Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but akitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love tobe-rhyme her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy;Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe a greyeye or so, but not to the purpose. SigniorRomeo, bon jour! There’s a French salutationto your French slop.
You gave us the counterfeitfairly last night.ROMEOGood morrow to you both.
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