Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Benvolio

Nephew to Montague, a testy, litigious gentleman, who would “quarrel with a man that had a hair more or a hair less in his beard than he had.” Mercutio says to him, “Thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun.” (Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, iii. 1.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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