Reading about Shakespeare's usury through Tybalt, a whole story evolves around one man to create Romeo and Juliet. Tybalt in the play is depicted as an awful man. One line where Mercutio describes him explains it all, "More than Prince of Cats. Oh he's the courageous Captain of Compliments. He fights as you sing prick-song -- keeps time, distance and proportion. He rests his minim rests -- one, two and the third in your bosom. The very butcher of a silk button, a duelist, a duelist! a gentleman of the very first house, of the first and second cause.... The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting fantasticoes." This means that Tybalt was more then just a Prince or Juliet's cousin but a threat to those who angered him. For his concern with matters of honor, Tybalt can be dishonorable, especially when he kills Mercutio with an unexpected blow...