Read the excerpt from Act I, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet . Benvolio : Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet, Hath sent a letter to his father’s house. Mercutio : A challenge, on my life. (10) Benvolio : Romeo will answer it. Mercutio : Any man that can write may answer a letter. Benvolio : Nay, he will answer the letter’s master, how he dares, being dared. Mercutio : Alas! poor Romeo, he is already dead; stabbed with a white wench’s black eye; shot through the ear with a love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt-shaft; and is he a man to encounter Tybalt? Why does Shakespeare include Mercutio’s teasing words?