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54 ROMEO AXD JULIET. lie is the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and propor- tion; rests nie his minim rest, one, two, and the third in your bosom : the very butcher of a silk button, a duel- list, a duellist ; a gentleman of the very first house, of the first and second cause. Ah, the immortal passado I the punto reverso ! the hay ! Bcnvolio. The what? Mercntio. The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting fantasticoes, these new tuners of accents ! ' By Jesu, a ver}- good blade ! a very tall man !' — Why, is not this a lamentable thing, grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted with these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these 2H(rdo)ine.z-mois, who stand so much on the new form that they cannot sit at ease on the old bench ? 0. their hons, their bans ! Enter Romeo. Benvolio. Here comes Eomeo. here comes Eomeo. Memitio. Without his roe, like a dried herring. flesh, flesh, how art thou fi.shified ! ^ow is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in : Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench ; marry, she had a better love to be- rhyme her ; Dido a dowdy ; Cleopatra a gypsy ; Helen and Hero hildings and harlots ; Thisbe a gray ej-e or so. but not to the purpose. — Signior Komeo. hon Jour.' there's a French salutation to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit fairly last night.