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Mercutio is one of the main characters in Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo & Juliet". Mercutio is Prince Escalus' cousin and Romeo's friend, he is not a Montague, nor a Capulet. But his friendship with Romeo puts him more on the Montagues side of the feud. Mercutio has many characteristics, but his main ones are that he is kind of a jokester/teaser, not a lover, and he knows when to be serious or when to be sarcastic Mercutio is always playing around with words, using two or more meanings.For example when Mercutio teases Romeo, in Act II Scene i: "Romeo! Humours! Madman! Passion! Lover! Appear though in the likeness of a sigh...I conjure thee by Rosalines bright eyes,By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, and the demesnes that there adjacent lie...". This indicates that Mercutio lov