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What is Mercutio saying? The ape is dead, and I must conjure him. (II, i, 21)

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Mercutio mocks love, reducing Romeo's supposed love for Rosaline.
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Mercutio humorously compares Romeo to an ape in this metaphor (2.1.14)
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