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With this magnificent carriage she rides each night through the brains of lovers, who then dream about love. She rides across courtiers’ knees, who then dream about bowing and curtsying. She rides over lawyers’ fingers, who then dream about their fees. She rides over ladies’ lips, and they immediately dream of kisses.
- Act 2, Prologue
CHORUS. Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young...
- Act 1, Scene 5
You are welcome, gentlemen.—Come, musicians, play. [Music...
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Romeo is sensitive to the undercurrents of fate that seem to...
- Act 2, Prologue
Mercutio believes that love is grounded in sexual desire. When Romeo makes the romantic gesture of breaking into the Capulets’ garden to see Juliet, Mercutio calls after him that his real motive is not romantic but sexual. An “open-arse” is a slang name for a fruit often compared to the vagina, while “poperin” puns on “pop her in.”.
The nurse asks Romeo if his servant can be trusted to keep the secret of Romeo and Juliet’s marriage, and he insists his servant is “true as steel.”. Juliet’s nurse says that Juliet, too, is trustworthy and good—she is even choosing to honor her love for Romeo in spite of a marriage proposal from Paris. Romeo bids the nurse goodbye ...
Romeo is sensitive to the undercurrents of fate that seem to be pulling him in new directions—but his friends’ influence forces him to shove those feelings down and surrender to having a good time. Mercutio says he had a dream the night before, too—he and Romeo have both been visited by “Queen Mab.”. Benvolio asks who Queen Mab is ...
He says that love is not a "tender thing" at all, but rough and "pricks like thorn" (1.4.26), which gives Mercutio an opening for the best pun of the scene: "Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down" (1.4.28). In Mercutio's view, Romeo's love-sickness is caused by a lack of sex; if he'd just have some, he'd get over thinking that he ...
Mercutio. You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings, And soar with them above a common bound. Romeo. I am too sore enpierced with his shaft. Under love's heavy burden do I sink. Mercutio. And, to sink in it, should you burden love; Too great oppression for a tender thing.
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Aug 21, 2023 · One of the most delightful characters in Shakespeare's otherwise tragic Romeo and Juliet is Mercutio. He is a relative of the Prince of Verona and he is a good friend of Romeo. Given his name ...
