A man stumbles at graves at night and calls out for help. Another man responds that he is a friend who knows the first man well. The first man asks for his page to fetch a surgeon, as he has received a scratch. A boy is called wretched for consorting with the injured man and is told to leave with him. Mortal drugs are mentioned that carry the death penalty if uttered, by the laws of Mantua.

1. 5.3.141-142:Saint Francis be my speed! How oft tonight have my old feet stumbled at graves!-Who is there?

2. 5.3.123:Here’s one, a friend, and one that knows you well.

3. 3.1.97-98:Ay,ay a scratch a scratch marry ‘tis enough where is my page. go villan fetch me a surgeon.

7. 3.1.135:Thow wretched boy, that didst consort him here, shalt him with hence.

8. 5.1.70-71:Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua’s law is death to he that utters them