Benvolio. Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.

Mercutio. [Without his roe], like a dried herring. O

flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! Now is he for the

numbers that Petrarch flowed in; Laura to his lady

was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better

love to [be-rhyme] her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra

a gypsy; Helen and Hero [hildings] and harlots;

Thisbe a [grey eye] or so, but not to the purpose.—Signior

Romeo, bon jour! there's a French salutation

to your French [slop]. You gave us the counterfeit