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ROMEO AND JULIET. 53 

Borneo. 0, let us hence, I stand, on sudden haste. 
Friar Laurence. Wisely and slow ; they stumble that 
run fast. \_Exeunt. 

Scene IV. A Street. 
Enter Benvolio and Mercutio. 

Mercutlo. Where the devil should this Romeo be ? 
Came he not home to-night ? 

Benvolio. Not to his father's ; I spoke with his man. 

Mercutio. Why, that same pale hard-hearted, wench, 
that Rosaline, 
Torments him so that he will sure run mad. 

Benvolio. Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet, 
Hath sent a letter to his father's house. 

Mercutio. A challenge, on my life. 

Benvolio. Romeo will answer it. 

Mercutio. Any man that can write may answer a letter. 

Benvolio. Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how 
he dares, being dared. 

Mercutio. Alas, poor Romeo ! he is already dead ; 
stabbed with a white wench's black eye ; shot through 
the ear with a love-song ; the very pin of his heart cleft 
with the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft : and is he a man to 
encounter Tybalt ? 

Benvolio. Why, what is Tybalt ? 

Mercutio. More than prince of cats, I can tell you. 0,