

MERCUTIO And but one word with one of us? Couple it 40 Mercutio suggests that Benvolio is particularly hot-tempered-all the time, not just in the warmer weather.īENVOLIO By my head, here comes the Capulets.įollow me close, for I will speak to them. It's so hot out that he thinks people will be even quicker to get angry and fight than usual. Benvolio thinks they should get off the street. Things are starting to heat up-as they usually do in Act 3 of Shakespeare's plays. Benvolio and Mercutio are hanging out, trading insults and mocking the Capulets. Man should buy the fee simple of my life for an

Didst thou not fall out with a tailorįor wearing his new doublet before Easter? WithĪnother, for tying his new shoes with old ribbon? 30Īnd yet thou wilt tutor me from quarreling?īENVOLIO An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any Quarreled with a man for coughing in the streetīecause he hath wakened thy dog that hath lainĪsleep in the sun.

Out such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of quarrels asĪn egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath beenīeaten as addle as an egg for quarreling. Nuts, having no other reason but because thou Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking 20 Hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than Thou-why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that Have none shortly, for one would kill the other.

MERCUTIO Nay, an there were two such, we should Mood as any in Italy, and as soon moved to be MERCUTIO Come, come, thou art as hot a jack in thy Need of thee” and, by the operation of the secondĬup, draws him on the drawer when indeed there is Sword upon the table and says “God send me no He enters the confines of a tavern, claps me his MERCUTIO Thou art like one of these fellows that, when 5 I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire.Īnd if we meet we shall not ’scape a brawl,įor now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
