15061482Alla stucatho carries it away,

15071483Tibalt, you ratcatcher, will you walke?

15081484Tib. What wouldst thou haue with me?

15091485 M. Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine liues,

15101486that I meane to make bold withall, and as you shall vse mee

15111487hereafter drie beate the rest of the eight. Will you plucke your

15121488sword out of his pilcher by the eares? Make haste, least mine be

15131489about your eares ere it be out.

15141490Tib. I am for you.

15151491Rom. Gentle Mercutio, put thy Rapier vp.

15161492Mer. Come sir, your Passado.

15171493Rom. Draw Benuolio, beate downe their weapons,

15181494Gentlemen, for shame forbeare this outrage,

15191495Tibalt,Mercutio, the Prince expresly hath

15201496Forbid this bandying in Verona streetes,

15211497Hold Tybalt, good Mercutio.

15231499Mer. I am hurt.

15241500A plague a both houses, I am sped,

15251501Is he gone and hath nothing.

15261502Ben. What art thou hurt?

15271503Mer. I, I, a scratch, a scratch, marrie tis inough,

15281504Where is my Page? go villaine, fetch a Surgion.

15291505Ro. Courage man, the hurt cannot be much.

15301506 Mer. No tis not so deepe as a well, nor so wide as a Church

15311507doore, but tis inough, twill serue: aske for me to morrow, and you

15321508shall finde me a graue man. I am peppered I warrant, for this

15331509world, a plague a both your houses, sounds a dog, a rat, a mouse,

15341510a cat, to scratch a man to death: a braggart, a rogue, a villaine,

15351511that fights by the booke of arithmatick, why the deule came you

15361512betweene vs? I was hurt vnder your arme.

15381513Ro. I thought all for the best.

15391514Mer. Helpe me into some house Benuolio,