Thou talk'st of nothing." "True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasty; Which is as thin of substance as the air; And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face t the dew-dropping south.
ROMEO: ... Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.MERCUTIO: And, to sink in it, should you burden love;Too great oppression for a tender thing.ROMEO: Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.MERCUTIO: If love be rough with you, be roughwith love;Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
TOUCHSTONE Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious. As it is a spare life, look you, it fits my humour well; but as there is no more plenty in it, it goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?
ROMEO: A torch for me: let wantons light of heartTickle the senseless rushes with their heels,For I am proverb’d with a grandsire phrase;I’ll be a candle-holder, and look on.The game was ne’er so fair, and I am done.MERCUTIO: Tut, dun’s the mouse, the constable’sown word:If thou art dun, we’ll draw thee from the mireOf this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick’stUp to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!ROMEO: Nay, that’s not so.MERCUTIO: I mean, sir, in delayWe waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.Take our good meaning, for our judgement sitsFive times in that ere once in our five wits.ROMEO: And we mean well in going to this mask;But ’tis no wit to go.MERCUTIO: Why, may one ask?ROMEO: I dream’d a dream to-night.MERCUTIO: And so did I.ROMEO: Well, what was yours?MERCUTIO: That dreamers often lie.ROMEO: In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.MERCUTIO: O, then, I see Queen Mabhath been with you.She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes.