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Mercutio, Lines 26-33
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Act 2,
Scene 4
Lines 26-33

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

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 2.4 Performance: Mercutio, Lines 26-33

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
lamentable thing, grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted
with these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these 
‘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!