Exit, Pursued By A Bear

shakespeareaudio:

Ralph Fiennes as Romeo, Raymond Coulthard as Benvolio and David Tennant as Mercutio in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

• Romeo
  Can I go forward when my heart is here? 
  Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.

[He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it]

[Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO]

• Benvolio
  Romeo! my cousin Romeo!

• Mercutio
  He is wise; 
  And, on my lie, hath stol’n him home to bed.

• Benvolio
  He ran this way, and leap’d this orchard wall: 
  Call, good Mercutio.

• Mercutio
  Nay, I’ll conjure too. 
  Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover! 
  Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh: 
  Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied; 
  Cry but ‘Ay me!’ pronounce but ‘love’ and ‘dove;’ 
  Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, 
  One nick-name for her purblind son and heir, 
  Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, 
  When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid! 
  He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not; 
  The ape is dead, and I must conjure him. 
  I conjure thee by Rosaline’s bright eyes, 
  By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, 
  By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh 
  And the demesnes that there adjacent lie, 
  That in thy likeness thou appear to us!

• Benvolio
  And if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.

• Mercutio
  This cannot anger him: ‘twould anger him 
  To raise a spirit in his mistress’ circle 
  Of some strange nature, letting it there stand 
  Till she had laid it and conjured it down; 
  That were some spite: my invocation 
  Is fair and honest, and in his mistress’ name 
  I conjure only but to raise up him.

• Benvolio
  Come, he hath hid himself among these trees, 
  To be consorted with the humorous night: 
  Blind is his love and best befits the dark.

• Mercutio
  If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. 
  Now will he sit under a medlar tree, 
  And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit 
  As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone. 
  Romeo, that she were, O, that she were 
  An open et caetera, thou a poperin pear! 
  Romeo, good night: I’ll to my truckle-bed; 
  This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep: 
  Come, shall we go?

• Benvolio
  Go, then; for ‘tis in vain 
  To seek him here that means not to be found.

[Exeunt]

(Source: plays.pursuedbyabear.net)

shakespeareaudio:

Joseph Fiennes as Romeo, David Tennant as Mercutio, and Raymond Coulthard as Benvolio in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

• Mercutio
  I am hurt. 
  A plague o’ both your 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.

[Exit Page]

• Romeo
  Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.

• Mercutio
  No, ‘tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a 
  church-door; but ‘tis enough,’twill serve: ask for 
  me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I 
  am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o’ 
  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 o’ both your houses! 
  They have made worms’ meat of me: I have it, 
  And soundly too: your houses!

(Source: plays.pursuedbyabear.net)

shakespeareaudio:

Joseph Fiennes as Romeo and David Tennant as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet.