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.
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 4. Mercutio jokes that Romeo is back to his normal self again and is no longer miserable in love. Using a simile, he dismisses love as foolish, "like a great natural" means like a great fool. He believes that Romeo’s romantic yearnings for Rosaline were all to do with sexual frustration. The fool trying to "hide his bauble in a hole" is a double entendre suggesting sexual intercourse. Mercutio has a rather cynical view of love, seeing it more as sexual desire than Romeo’s idealized view of romantic love.