Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love?
mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest.

romeo: nay, good goose, bite not.

mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most
sharp sauce.

romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose?

mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an
inch narrow to an ell broad!

romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added
to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.

mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love?
now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art
thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature:
for this drivelling love is like a great natural,
that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.

benvolio: stop there, stop there.

mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair.

benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large.

mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short:
for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and
meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.
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