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Mercutio. Any man that can write may answer
a letter.
Benvolio. Nay, he will answer the letter's master,
[how he dares], being dared.
Mercutio. Alas, poor Romeo! he is already dead;
stabbed with a [white wench's black eye; shot thorough]
the ear with a love-song; [the very pin] of his
heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's [butt-shaft]; and
is he a man to encounter Tybalt?