Place: Street in Verona
Time: Monday, midday
Characters: Mercutio, Benvolio, Romeo, Nurse, Peter
Mercutio and benvolio are still looking for Romeo in the streets. He then appears and shortly afterwards Romeo talks to the Nurse about the marrying of Juliet. The Nurse agrees to pass on the message to go to Friar Lawrence’s cell.
Quote: “Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead, stabbed with a white wench’s black eye, run through the ear with a love song, the very pin of his heart cleft with a blind bow-boy’s butt shaft (cupid’s arrow) and he is a man to encounter Tybalt?”