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28 ROMEO AND JULIET. 

Mercutio. You are a lover ; borrow Cupid's wings, 
And soar with them above a common bound. 

Romeo. I am too sore enpierced with his shaft 
To soar Avith his light feathers, and, so bound, 
I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe ; 
Under love's heavy burden do I sink. 

Mercutio. And, to sink in it, should you burden love ; 
Too great oppression for a tender thing. 

Romeo. Is love a tender thing ? it is too rough, 
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. 

Mercutio. If love be rough with you, be rough with 
love; 
Prick love for pricking, and jovi beat love down. — 
Give me a case to put my visage in ; 

\_Putting on a mask. 
A visor for a visor ! what care I 
What curious eye doth quote deformities ? 
Here are the beetle-brows shall blush for me. 

Benvolio. Come, knock and enter ; and no sooner in, 
But every man betake him to his legs. 

Romeo. A torch for me ; let wantons light of heart 
Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels, 
For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase : 
I'll be a candle-holder, and look on. 
The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done. 

Mercutio. Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own 
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