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Mercutio is enjoying himself by making dirty jokes about Romeo and Rosaline, imagining Romeo dreaming of having sex with her: "O, that she were an open arse and you a pop'rin (sounds like pop 'er in) pear!"

Romeo's reply in scene 2 of Act 2, "He jests at scars who never felt a wound", contemptuously dismisses Mercutio as someone who sneers at something because he doesn't understand it. His feelings for Juliet (about which Mercutio knows nothing) are far beyond the physical lust Mercutio is talking about.

Even before the balcony scene we have a notion that what is going on with Romeo is much more powerful than his playing at being in love with Rosaline.

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