ROMEO AND JULIET: Act III (Wk. of 5/17/10) [ Edited ]

[ConnieAnnKirk]

Here's our thread for R&J, Act III.  Do you have a favorite passage from this act?

[friery]

One favorite passage has to be in Act 3, sc. 1, when Mercutio is stabbed.  He describes his wound as follows:

No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for
me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I
am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o'
both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a
cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a
rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of
arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I
was hurt under your arm.