When Tybalt comes to challenge Romeo the day after Romeo and his friends crashed the Capulets' party, Romeo has just come from his own secret wedding to Juliet, Tybalt's cousin. As a result, Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt, stating that he has reasons to love Tybalt that Tybalt cannot possible understand. Mercutio views Romeo's unwillingness to fight and his peaceful, loving words as a "dishonorable, vile submission," and he steps in to fight Tybalt on Romeo's behalf. As Mercutio and Tybalt fight, Romeo begs them to stop, put their swords down, and walk away peacefully, but they only continue. Finally, Romeo physically comes between them, and, when he does so, Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo's arm, mortally wounding him. Mercutio dies moments later, cursing both the house of Capulet and the house of Montague.
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