In this excerpt from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which line best shows that Mercutio blames his death on the fighting between the Capulets and the Montagues?
A: MERCUTIO: Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.
Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.
(Exit Page)
B: MERCUTIO: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for
me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I
I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o'
both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a
a cat, to scratch a man to death! A braggart, a rogue
a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why
the devil came you between us? I was hurt under
your arm.
C: MERCUTIO: 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!
