[Scene 4/I.iv]
1.4.0.1454465Enter Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, with five or six other 455466masquers [and] torchbearers. What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse?
The date is out of such prolixity,
1.4.5459470We'll have no Cupid, hoodwinked with a scarf,
Give me a torch; I am not for this ambling.
Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.
Not I, believe me, you have dancing shoes
You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,
I am too sore enpiercèd with his shaft
And to sink in it should you burden love,
Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,
1.4.25479490Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
If love be rough with you, be rough with love.
1.4.27481492Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
1.4.28482493Give me a case to put my visage in,
[Puts on mask.] Come, knock and enter, and no sooner in,
A torch for me. Let wantons light of heart
Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word.
1.4.41495506Or, save your reverence, love, wherein thou stickest
Nay, that's not so.
I mean, sir, in delay.
1.4.45499510We waste our lights, in vain light lights by day.
And we mean well in going to this masque,
Why, may one ask?
I dreamt a dream tonight.
And so did I.
Well, what was yours?
That dreamers often lie.
In bed asleep while they do dream things true.
O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
1.4.74524533Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love.
1.4.75525534On courtiers' knees, that dream on curtsies straight;
1.4.77526535O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream,
1.4.79528537Because their breath with sweetmeats tainted are.
1.4.81529538And then dreams he of smelling out a suit, and sometime comes
1.4.90536544And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two,
1.4.96542549That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace,
True, I talk of dreams,
This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves,
I fear too early, for my mind misgives
Strike, drum.
1.4.119.1566573They [Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio, and masquers] march about the stage, [as the scene shifts to inside the Capulet house] and serving men come forth with 567574napkins [as they transition to the next scene within the Capulet house.