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Disk I - 08 A Plague on Both Houses [Act 3, Scene 1]
Male Vocals [Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio & Tybalt]
Tyblat starts a fight with Romeo, Mercutio & Benvolio.
Romeo tries to halt the fighting but Tybalt manages to cut Mercutio.
Romeo: Draw Benvolio, bear down their weapons:
Gentlemen, for shame forbear this outrage,
Tybalt, Mercutio, the Prince expressly hath
Forbid this bandying in Verona street,
Hold Tybalt, good Mercutio.
<Tybalt under Romeo’s arm thrusts Mercutio in; and flies>
Mercutio: I am hurt.
A plague o’ both houses, I am sped:
Is he gone and hath nothing?
Benvolio: What art thou hurt?
Mercutio: Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch, marry’tis enough.
Where is my page? Go villain, fetch a surgeon.
Romeo: Courage man, the hurt cannot be much.
Mercutio: No ‘tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
churchdoor, but ‘tis enough, ‘twill serve: ask for me tomorrow,
and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered
I warrant, for this world, a plague a’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.
Romeo: I thought all for the best.
Mercutio: Help me into some house Benvolio,
Or I shall faint, a plague a’both your houses,
They have made worms’ meat of me,
I have it, and soundly, to your houses.
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