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ROMEO AND JULIET
[ACT III.
| Rom. | Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons.90 Gentlemen, for shame,[C 1] forbear this outrage! Tybalt,[E 1] Mercutio, the prince expressly hath Forbid this[C 2] bandying in Verona streets. Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio! |
[Exeunt Tybalt and his Partisans.[C 3]
| Mer. | I am hurt, A plague o' both your[C 4] houses![E 2] I am sped.95 Is he gone, and hath nothing? |
| Ben. | What, art thou hurt? |
| Mer. | Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough. Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon. |
[Exit Page.[C 5]
| Rom. | Courage, man ; the hurt cannot be much. |
| Mer. | No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as100 a church-door;[E 3] but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.[E 4] I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o'[C 6] both your houses! 'Zounds![C 7] a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch105 a man to death! a braggart, a rogue, a villain, |
- ↑ 91. shame,] Theobald; shame Q, F.
- ↑ 93. Forbid this] Q, Forbid Qq 3–5, Forbidden F.
- ↑ 94. Exeunt …] Malone, Away Tybalt Q, Exit Tybalt F, Tibalt vnder Romeos arme thrusts Mercutio, in and flyes Q 1.
- ↑ 95. o' both your] Dyce, a both Q, a both the F, on your Q 1.
- ↑ 98. Exit Page] Capell.
- ↑ 104. o'] Capell; a Q, F.
- ↑ 105. 'Zounds] Q 5, Sounds Q, What F.
- ↑ 92. Tybalt] Tybalt may belong to the preceding line, Gentlemen, as often, being a disyllabic. Capell divides from Draw to Mercutio (in line 94) with the ending words Benvolio shame, Mercutio, bandying, Mercutio, and so many editors.
- ↑ 95. your houses] Grant White suggests that the houses of F may have originated in yr mistaken for ye. Many editors read the.
- ↑ 101. church-door] Q 1 has barne door.
- ↑ 103. grave man] Compare John of Gaunt's play on his name, Richard II. II. i. 82: "Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave." For passages found only in Q 1, see p. 184.
