Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare's romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped
thinking about love?
mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest.
romeo: nay, good goose, bite not.
mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most
sharp sauce.
romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose?
mercutio: o here's a wit of chevenil, that stretches from an
inch narrow to an ell broad!
romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad, which added
to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.
mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love?
now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo, now art
thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature:
for this drivelling love is like a great natural,
that runs lalling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
benvolio: stop there, stop there.
mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair
benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large
mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short:
for i was come to the whole depth of my tale, and