Act 2, Scene 1 - Video Performance: Mercutio, Lines 7b-22

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Mercutio, Lines 7b-22

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Act 2,

Scene 1

Lines 7b-22

Mercutio performs a speech from Act 2, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 2.1 Performance: Mercutio, Lines 7b-22

Nay, I'll conjure too.

[He calls over the wall into the garden]

Romeo! Humors! Madman! Passion! Lover!

Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh.

Speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied —

Cry but 'Ay me!', pronounce but 'love' and 'dove.'

Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,

One nickname for her purblind son and heir,

Young Abraham Cupid — he that shot so true

When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid.

[To Benvolio]

He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not.

The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.

[To Romeo]

I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,

By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,

By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh,

And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,

That in thy likeness thou appear to us!