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Scene IV IT
Enter Benvolio and Mercutio.
MERCUT IO
Where the devil should this Romeo be? Came he not home tonight?
BENVOLIO
Not to his father’s; I spoke with his man.
MERCUT IO
Why, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, torments him so
that he will sure run mad. [5]
BENVOLIO
Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet, hath sent a letter to his father’s house.
MERCUT IO
A challenge, on my life.
BENVOLIO
Romeo will answer it.
MERCUT IO
Any man that can write may answer a letter. [10]
BENVOLIO
Nay, he will answer the letter’s master, how he dares, being dared.
MERCUT IO
Alas poor Romeo, he is already dead, stabbed with a white wench’s black
eye, run through the ear with a love song, the very pin of his heart cleft
with the blind [15] bow-boy’s butt-shaft. And is he a man to encounter
Tybalt?
BENVOLIO
Why, what is Tybalt?
MERCUT IO
More than Prince of Cats. O, he’s the courageous captain of compliments:
