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Tybalt --
ready to live, kill or die for Honor!
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Mercutio flames Juliet's cousin Tybalt -
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Mercutio: "More than Prince of Cats. Oh he's the
courageous Captain of Compliments. He fights as you
sing prick-song -- keeps time, distance and
proportion. He rests his minim rests -- one, two and
the third in your bosom. The very butcher of a silk
button, a duelist, a duelist! a gentleman of the
very first house, of the first and second cause....
The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting
fantasticoes."
Tybalt's personal side is nice enough for Juliet to
genuinely mourn his loss as a friend.
For his concern with matters of honor, Tybalt can
be dishonorable. And never more so than when he
kills Mercutio with an underhanded blow.
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