Enter Nurse and Peter: Mercutio bawdily mocks the Nurse, who tells Romeo that she wants a word in private with him. Exeunt Mercutio and Benvolio: The Nurse complains about Mercutio, receives from Romeo the information about the time and place of the wedding, then chatters on about how sweet Juliet is.
Enter Benvolio and Mercutio: The last time we saw Benvolio and Mercutio, it was late at night and they were looking for Romeo.
Now it's fairly early the next morning, and they're looking for Romeo again. Mercutio asks Benvolio, "Where the devil should this Romeo be? Benvolio answers that he has spoken with Romeo's servant and found out that Romeo isn't at home. Then Benvolio mentions that Tybalt has sent a letter to Romeo at his father's house. Mercutio is sure it must be a challenge, and Benvolio is sure that "Romeo will answer it" 2.
Benvolio means that Romeo will answer the challenge and fight Tybalt, but Mercutio doesn't seem to be sure that's such a good idea. Sarcastically, Mercutio says "Any man that can write may answer a letter" 2. Jokingly, Mercutio says that Romeo is already dead because he has been "stabbed with a white wench's black eye, run through the ear with a love-song," and shot right through the heart with Cupid's arrow.
Benvolio asks "Why, what is Tybalt? Benvolio knows very well who Tybalt is, and is asking if he's really such hot stuff. Mercutio's answer is deliciously sarcastic: More than prince of cats, I can tell you.
O, he is the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of the very first house, of the first and second cause: ah, the immortal passado!
He a skilled duellist, but not natural or spontaneous; instead, he fights as a person sings from sheet-music "prick-song" , following all the rules about proper timing and distance until he puts his sword in exactly the right place and kills you. Not only can he hit a target as small as a button, he knows all the rules about "the first and second cause," which supposedly give him the right to be insulted and demand satisfaction.
Then, when he fights, he shows off all his cool moves, the passado forward thrust , the punto reverso backhand thrust , and an old one with a new name, the hay killing thrust. Mercutio curses Tybalt and everyone like him, all the wannabes who follow the latest fashion in fighting, and all who encourage the wannabes by saying, "By Jesu, a very good blade! Then, speaking to Benvolio as though they were both old men shaking their heads at the follies of youth, Mercutio asks if it isn't terrible to have to endure "these fashion-mongers, these pardon-me's, who stand so much on the new form [also means "bench"] , that they cannot sit at ease on the old bench?
Finally, Mercutio exclaims, "O, their bones, their bones! Mercutio probably means that someone like Tybalt throws around a lot of fancy French phrases about his fencing abilities, but all he really has is a French disease. Enter Romeo: When Romeo shows up, Mercutio -- who seems to enjoy his own wit -- switches from making fun of Tybalt to making fun of Romeo. When Benvolio says, "Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo" 2.
Mercutio's joke has two prongs and one point. Romeo without his "roe" is "me O," as in "O, me O, woe is me"; and a person who is wasting away looks as thin as a fish without roe and a "dried herring" is the thinnest. The point is that Romeo's forelorn love for Rosalind is killing him, body and soul.
Mercutio adds that Romeo is about to burst out in poetry about how his beloved is more beautiful than any of the heroines of love stories, from Cleopatra to Helen of Troy.
Finally, still teasing, Mercutio says, "Signior Romeo, bon jour! You gave us the counterfeit fairly last night" 2. A "French slop" is a pair of baggy breeches; Mercutio is calling Romeo "fancy pants," and he follows that with a play on the word "counterfeit. Romeo doesn't quite get the pun, so Mercutio has to explain, and then Romeo semi-apologizes, saying, "Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great; and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy" 2.
Mercutio's joke is that Romeo's "case" is that he has picked up a terrible veneral disease which makes him unable to straighten up, so that he has to bow or "curtsy" all the time. Now Romeo is a little quicker on the uptake, and he shows that he gets the joke by saying, "Meaning, to cur'sy" 2. Mercutio tells him that he's got it, and Romeo ironically thanks him for his "most courteous exposition" 2.
Mercutio then declares himself to be "the very pink of courtesy" 2. First he asks if Mercutio is using "pink" for "flower"; when Mercutio says he is, Romeo says, "Why, then is my pump well flowered" 2. A "pump" is a shoe, and fancy shoes were "pinked" by having decorative holes cut in them, so if "pink" means "flower" then Romeo's pinked pumps the same ones he wore to Capulet's feast are "well flowered.
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