Enter Tybalt and others

Tybalt. Follow me close, for I will speak to them.—
Gentlemen, [good den;] a word with one of you.

40Mercutio. And but one word with one of us?
couple it with something; make it a word and a
blow.

Tybalt. You shall find me [apt enough to] that, sir,
an you will give me occasion.

Mercutio. Could you not take some occasion without
giving?

Tybalt. Mercutio, thou [consort'st with] Romeo,—

Mercutio. [Consort]! what, dost thou make us
minstrels? an thou make minstrels of us, look to
50hear nothing but discords; here's my fiddlestick,
here's that shall make you dance. [Zounds], consort!

Benvolio. We talk here in the public haunt of men.

Either withdraw unto some private place,