Mercutio
Notes on Mercutio
A Plague and a Scourge
Read the NoteMercutio’s curse, “A plague o’ both your houses!” is fulfilled, although not literally. Despite the numerous ways scores of characters die in Shakespeare’s plays, no one in this play or any other Shakespeare play dies of the plague. But the plague is the proximate cause of Romeo’s and Juliet’s deaths. When Friar Lawrence sends Friar John to deliver a letter to Romeo telling him of Juliet’s fake death,
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Quotes spoken by the character Mercutio
O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you
Read the QuoteMercutio
O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Over men’s noses as they lie asleep.
True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
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Romeo, my cousin Romeo, Romeo!
Read the QuoteBenvolio
Romeo, my cousin Romeo, Romeo!
Mercutio
He is wise
And, on my life, hath stol’n him home to bed.
Benvolio
He ran this way and leapt this orchard wall.
Call, good Mercutio.
Romeo! Humors! Madman! Passion! Lover!
Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh.
Speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied.
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I am hurt. A plague o’ both houses!
Read the QuoteMercutio
I am hurt.
A plague o’ both houses! I am sped.
Is he gone and hath nothing?
Benvolio
What, art thou hurt?
Mercutio
Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, ’tis enough.
Where is my page?—Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.
Page exits.
No, ’tis not so deep as a well,
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