“Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man” ao2: pun meaning both serious and dead - pathos
mercutio is a bawdy character
“if love be rough with you, be rough with love; // Prick love for pricking you and you beat love down” -prick=penis- sexual innuendo -contrast to romeo’s petrarchan ideals of love
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mercutio is mocking, provocative- particularly when speaking with Tybalt
”rat catcher”
”Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine lives.. make bold withal”
—speaks in prose—used in lower class, or comedic characters
—prose is also uncontrolled and is written with no rules or regulations
