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When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

— The Merchant of Venice, Act I Scene 2

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KEYWORD: benvolio

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# Result number	Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.	Character Indicates who said the line. If it's a play or sonnet, the character name is "Poet."	Line Shows where the line falls within the work. The numbering is not keyed to any copyrighted numbering system found in a volume of collected works (Arden, Oxford, etc.) The numbering starts at the beginning of the work, and does not restart for each scene.	Text The line's full text, with keywords highlighted within it, unless highlighting has been disabled by the user.
1	Romeo and Juliet [I, 1]	(stage directions)	75	[Enter BENVOLIO]
2	Romeo and Juliet [I, 1]	Tybalt	80	What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.
3	Romeo and Juliet [I, 1]	(stage directions)	124	[Exeunt all but MONTAGUE, LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO]
4	Romeo and Juliet [I, 2]	(stage directions)	318	[Enter BENVOLIO and ROMEO]
5	Romeo and Juliet [I, 4]	(stage directions)	495	[Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, with five or six Maskers, Torch-bearers, and others]
6	Romeo and Juliet [II, 1]	(stage directions)	799	[Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO]
7	Romeo and Juliet [II, 4]	(stage directions)	1158	[Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO]
8	Romeo and Juliet [II, 4]	Mercutio	1226	Come between us, good Benvolio; my wits faint.
9	Romeo and Juliet [II, 4]	(stage directions)	1300	[Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO]
10	Romeo and Juliet [III, 1]	(stage directions)	1498	[Enter MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, Page, and Servants]
11	Romeo and Juliet [III, 1]	Romeo	1587	Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons. Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage! Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath Forbidden bandying in Verona streets: Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!
12	Romeo and Juliet [III, 1]	Mercutio	1611	Help me into some house, Benvolio, Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me: I have it, And soundly too: your houses!
13	Romeo and Juliet [III, 1]	(stage directions)	1615	[Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO]
14	Romeo and Juliet [III, 1]	(stage directions)	1623	[Re-enter BENVOLIO]
15	Romeo and Juliet [III, 1]	Prince Escalus	1668	Benvolio, who began this bloody fray?
16	Romeo and Juliet [III, 1]	Benvolio	1669	Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay; Romeo that spoke him fair, bade him bethink How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal Your high displeasure: all this uttered With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow'd, Could not take truce with the unruly spleen Of Tybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast, Who all as hot, turns deadly point to point, And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats Cold death aside, and with the other sends It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity, Retorts it: Romeo he cries aloud, 'Hold, friends! friends, part!' and, swifter than his tongue, His agile arm beats down their fatal points, And 'twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled; But by and by comes back to Romeo, Who had but newly entertain'd revenge, And to 't they go like lightning, for, ere I Could draw to part them, was stout Tybalt slain. And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly. This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.

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