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ROMEO AND JULIET

By William Shakespeare


DRAMATIS PERSONAE

ESCALUS prince of Verona. (PRINCE:)

PARIS a young nobleman, kinsman to the prince.

MONTAGUE |
| heads of two houses at variance with each other.
CAPULET |

An old man, cousin to Capulet. (Second Capulet:)

ROMEO son to Montague.

MERCUTIO kinsman to the prince, and friend to Romeo.

BENVOLIO nephew toMontague, and friend to Romeo.

TYBALT nephew to Lady Capulet.

FRIAR LAURENCE |
| Franciscans.
FRIAR JOHN |

BALTHASAR servant to Romeo.

SAMPSON |
| servants to Capulet.
GREGORY |

PETER servant to Juliet's nurse.

ABRAHAM servant to Montague.

An Apothecary. (Apothecary:)

Three Musicians.
(First Musician:)
(Second Musician:)
(Third Musician:)

Page to Paris;(PAGE:) another Page; an officer.

LADY MONTAGUE wife to Montague.

LADY CAPULET wife to Capulet.

JULIET daughter to Capulet.

Nurse to Juliet. (Nurse:)

Citizens of Verona; several Men and Women,
relations to both houses; Maskers,
Guards, Watchmen, and Attendants.
(First Citizen:)
(Servant:)
(First Servant:)
(Second Servant:)
(First Watchman:)
(Second Watchman:)(Third Watchman:)
Chorus.

SCENE Verona: Mantua.

ROMEO AND JULIET

PROLOGUE

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrowsDo with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

ROMEO AND JULIET

ACT I

SCENE I Verona. Apublic place.

[Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet,
armed with swords and bucklers]

SAMPSON Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.

GREGORY No, for then we should be colliers.

SAMPSON I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.

GREGORY Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.

SAMPSON I strike quickly, being moved.

GREGORY But thou art not quicklymoved to strike.

SAMPSON A dog of the house of Montague moves me.

GREGORY To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand:
therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.

SAMPSON A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will
take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.

GREGORY That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes
to the wall.

SAMPSON True; and thereforewomen, being the weaker vessels,
are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push
Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids
to the wall.

GREGORY The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.

SAMPSON 'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I
have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the
maids, and cut off their heads.

GREGORY The heads of the maids?SAMPSON Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;
take it in what sense thou wilt.

GREGORY They must take it in sense that feel it.

SAMPSON Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and
'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.

GREGORY 'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou
hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes
two of the house of the Montagues.SAMPSON My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.

GREGORY How! turn thy back and run?

SAMPSON Fear me not.

GREGORY No, marry; I fear thee!

SAMPSON Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.

GREGORY I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as
they list.

SAMPSON Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;
which is a disgrace to them, if they bear...