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Mercutio and Benvolio are walking along. They wonder where Romeo has been since he never returned that night. Benvolio remarks that Tybalt sent Montague a message for Romeo. It is a challenge. Tybalt wants to fight Romeo in a duel. Mercutio knows that Romeo is too blinded by love to fight. Mercutio uses a clever speech to describe Tybalt as a good swordsman. Romeo would be foolish to duel him.
Romeo enters. Mercutio jokes that he is there without his Rosaline. He also jokes that Romeo cheated on them last night. Romeo left them alone. Romeo says that he had great business to attend to last night.
Romeo and Mercutio exchange witty phrases. Afterwards, Mercutio comments on how nice it is to have the old Romeo back to his sociable self. Romeo is no longer groaning over love.
The Nurse enters with her servant Peter. Mercutio shouts out, “A sail, a sail,” upon her entrance (he is probably referring to a sail-like article of clothing she is wearing).
The Nurse asks Peter for her fan and Peter gets it for her. Mercutio jokes that she got her fan out to hide her face because the fan is more beautiful than she is.
The Nurse asks if any of them can tell her where she can find Romeo. Romeo reveals himself and the Nurse asks to speak to him privately. Mercutio jokes around with the Nurse before she departs with Romeo. The Nurse is angry at Mercutio and she swears revenge on him if he were to say anything like that again.
Romeo and the Nurse get down to business. They make plans for Juliet to meet Romeo for confession later. Confession will be a ploy for them to get married at Friar Lawrence’s church. Romeo also plans to get the Nurse a rope ladder that he can use to get into Juliet’s room the night after they get married.
Before she leaves, the Nurse makes sure Romeo’s intentions are true. She lets him know that there is another suitor after Juliet, but Juliet would rather have a toad rather than him (Paris). The Nurse, apparently, just wants Juliet to be happy.
ROMEO AND JULIET -- ACT II, 4
BROWSE CONTENTS
by William Shakespeare
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