Act 2, Scene 4 - Video Performance: Mercutio, Lines 18-24

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Mercutio, Lines 18-24

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Act 2,

Scene 4

Lines 18-24

Mercutio performs a speech from Act 2, Scene 4 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 2.4 Performance: Mercutio, Lines 18-24

More than prince of cats, I can tell you. O, he is the

courageous captain of compliments. He fights as you

[Mercutio pretends to swing a sword as if he's keeping time to music]

sing prick-song; keeps time, distance, and proportion;

he rests his minim rests — one, two, and the third

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!