Romeo and Juliet: Original Text

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Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY armed with swords and bucklers.SAMPSON.Gregory, on my word, we'll not carry coals.GREGORY.No, for then we should be colliers.SAMPSON.I mean, if 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 quickly moved 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'staway.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 therefore women, being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall: thereforeI 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 civil withthe maids, I will cut off their heads.GREGORY.The heads of the maids?