Romeo and Juliet

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How does Mercutio try to summon Romeo?

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Mercutio attempts to summon Romeo by conjuring him in his mistress's name. He invokes Rosalines's bright eyes, her high forehead, scarlet lip, fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh [1]. He declares that his invocation is fair and honest, and he only wishes to raise Romeo up in his mistress's name [4].

Mercutio calls out to Romeo as "Humours, Madman, Passion, Louer" and asks him to appear in the likeness of a sigh, to speak just once, or to cry "ay me" [1]. He also asks Romeo to speak "one faire word" to Venus, his "goship," and to her son, "Young Abraham Cupid" [1]. Mercutio believes that Romeo is not answering and must be conjured, stating "The Ape is dead, I must coniure him" [1].

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rcutio. Ben. Romeo, my Cozen Romeo, Romeo Merc. He is wise, And on my life hath stolne him home to bed Ben. He ran this way and leapt this Orchard wall. Call good Mercutio: Nay, Ile coniure too Mer. Romeo, Humours, Madman, Passion, Louer, Appeare thou in the likenesse of a sigh, Speake but one time, and I am satisfied: Cry me but ay me, Prouant, but Loue and day, Speake to my goship Venus one faire word, One Nickname for her purblind Sonne and her, Young Abraham Cupid he that shot so true, When King Cophetua lou'd the begger Maid, He heareth not, he stirreth not,…
Passage [39]
ashion Mongers, these pardon-mee's, who stand so much on the new form, that they cannot sit at ease on the old bench. O their bones, their bones. Enter Romeo. Ben. Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo Mer. Without his Roe, like a dryed Hering. O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified? Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his Lady, was a kitchen wench, marrie she had a better Loue to berime her: Dido a dowdie, Cleopatra a Gipsie, Hellen and Hero, hildings and Harlots: Thisbie a gray eie or so, but not to the purpose. Signior Romeo, Bon iour, there's a French…
Passage [56]
whose merit most shall be: Which one more veiw, of many, mine being one, May stand in number, though in reckning none. Come, goe with me: goe sirrah trudge about, Through faire Verona, find those persons out, Whose names are written there, and to them say, My house and welcome, on their pleasure stay. Enter. Ser. Find them out whose names are written. Heere it is written, that the Shoo-maker should meddle with his Yard, and the Tayler with his Last, the Fisher with his Pensill, and the Painter with his Nets. But I am sent to find those persons whose names are writ, & can neuer…
Passage [18]
circle, Of some strange nature, letting it stand Till she had laid it, and coniured it downe, That were some spight. My inuocation is faire and honest, & in his Mistris name, I coniure onely but to raise vp him Ben. Come, he hath hid himselfe among these Trees To be consorted with the Humerous night: Blind is his Loue, and best befits the darke Mer. If Loue be blind, Loue cannot hit the marke, Now will he sit vnder a Medler tree, And wish his Mistresse were that kind of Fruite, As Maides cal Medlers when they laugh alone, O Romeo that she were, O that she were An open,…
Passage [40]
alt, Mercutio, the Prince expresly hath Forbidden bandying in Verona streetes. Hold Tybalt, good Mercutio. Exit Tybalt. Mer. I am hurt. A plague a both the Houses, I am sped: Is he gone and hath nothing? Ben. What art thou hurt? Mer. I, I, a scratch, a scratch, marry 'tis inough, Where is my Page? go Villaine fetch a Surgeon Rom. Courage man, the hurt cannot be much Mer. No: 'tis not so deepe as a well, nor so wide as a Church doore, but 'tis inough, 'twill serue: aske for me to morrow, and you shall find me a graue man. I am pepper'd I warrant, for this world: a plague a…
Passage [73]

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