 | Emma Smith - 2007 - 6 sidor
...as a signal that things cannot now go well; the death of this jesting character who dies on a joke - 'ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man' (3.1.89-90) - marks the end of the lightness with which the Montague/Capulet feud has been temporarily... | |
 | Irina Giertz - 2007 - 57 sidor
...pun, one of the meanings does not actually fit syntactically in the phrase, as when Mercutio says: Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. (Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, lll.i.91-92)21 Although only one meaning of 'grave' is appropriate here,... | |
 | Jack Richardson - 2009 - 194 sidor
...extensively, for serious and comic purposes; in Romeo and Juliet (III.i.101), the dying Mercutio puns, 'Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man'. Puns have serious literary uses, but since the eighteenth century, puns have been used almost purely... | |
 | George Herbert - 2007 - 47 sidor
...Church-monuments. Compare the pun in the dying Mercutio's line in Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet III ii 95-6: Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.' 5. checker d: Having a pattern of various colours in geometrical arrangement (OED 1). 6. See Texts... | |
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tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a churchdoor ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o... 
