Romeo Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy. Mercutio That's as much as to say, such a case as yours constrains a man to bow in the hams. Romeo Meaning, to curtsy. Read more about Act 2, Scene 4: Popup Note Index Item: "such a case as yours constrains a man to bow in the hams"
Mercutio to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit fairly last night. Romeo Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you? Mercutio The slip, sir, the slip — can you not conceive? Read more about Act 2, Scene 4: Popup Note Index Item: "counterfeit"
Mercutio Without his roe, like a dried herring. O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch Read more about Act 2, Scene 4: Popup Note Index Item: "like a dried herring"
Mercutio ‘pardon-me's’, who stand so much on the new form that they cannot sit at ease on the old bench? O, their bones, their bones! Read more about Act 2, Scene 4: Popup Note Index Item: "stand", "form"
Mercutio The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting phantasims, these new tuners of accent! 'By Jesu, a very good blade, a very tall man, a very good whore.' Why, is not this a Read more about Act 2, Scene 4: Popup Note Index Item: "a very good blade"
Mercutio The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting phantasims, these new tuners of accent! 'By Jesu, a very good blade, Read more about Act 2, Scene 4: Popup Note Index Item: "new tuners of accents"
Read more about Act 2, Scene 4: Popup Note Index Item: "the immortal passado! The punto reverso! The hai!"
Mercutio in your bosom. The very butcher of a silk button, a duelist, a duelist, a gentleman of the very first house, of the first and second cause. Ah, the immortal passado! The punto reverso! The hay! Read more about Act 2, Scene 4: Popup Note Index Item: "of the very first house, of the first and second cause"
Mercutio in your bosom. The very butcher of a silk button, a duelist, Read more about Act 2, Scene 4: Popup Note Index Item: "the very butcher of a silk button"
