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Romeo and Juliet, II. i

Mer. He is wise;

And, on my life, hath stol'n him home to bed.

Ben. He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall:

Call, good Mercutio.

Mer. Nay, I'll conjure too.

Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover!

Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh:

Speak but one rime and I am satisfied;

Cry but 'Ay me!' couple but 'love' and 'dove;'

Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word.

One nickname for her purblind son and heir,

Young Abraham Cupid, he that shot so true

When King Cophetua lov'd 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.

Ben. An if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.

Mer. 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 conjur'd 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.

Ben. Come, he hath hid himself among these trees,

To be consorted with the humorous night:

 6 conjure: summon by magical phrases

7 humours: whims

11 gossip: friend

12 purblind: totally blind

13 Abraham; cf. n.

15–16 Cf. n.

20 demesnes: regions

27 spite: injury

28 honest: decent

31 consorted: in company with

humorous: damp

