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!