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CONTEST
PROGRAMMING
GULF
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<A NAME=1.0.1>Two households, both alike in dignity,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.2>In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.3>From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.4>Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.5>From forth the fatal loins of these two foes</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.6>A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.7>Whose misadventured piteous overthrows</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.8>Do with their death bury their parents' strife.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.9>The fearful passage of their death mark'd love,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.10>And the continuance of their parents' rage,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.11>Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.12>Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.13>The which if you with patient ears attend,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.14>What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.</A><br> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE I. Verona. A public place.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers</i> </blockquote><A NAME=speech1><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.1>Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech2><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.2>No, for then we should be colliers.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech3><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.3>I mean, an we be in choler, we'lldraw.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech4><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.4>Ay, while you live, drawyour neck out o' the collar.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech5><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.5>Istrike quickly, being moved.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech6><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.6>But thou art not quickly moved to strike.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech7><b>SAMPSON<b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.7>A dog of the house of Montague moves me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech8><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.8>To move is to stir; and to be valiant is tostand:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.9>therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech9><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.10>A dog of that house shall move me to stand: Iwill</A><br><A NAME=1.1.11>take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech10><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.12>That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakestgoes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.13>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech11><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.14>True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.15>are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push</A><br><A NAME=1.1.16>Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids</A><br><A NAME=1.1.17>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech12><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.18>The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech13><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.19>'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.20>have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the</A><br><A NAME=1.1.21>maids, and cut off their heads.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech14><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.22>The heads of the maids?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech15><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.23>Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.24>take it in what sense thou wilt.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech16><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.25>They must take it in sense that feel it.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech17><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.26>Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and</A><br><A NAME=1.1.27>'tis known I am apretty piece of flesh.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech18><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.28>'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou</A><br><A NAME=1.1.29>hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.30>two of the house of the Montagues.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech19><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.31>My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech20><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.32>How! turn thy back and run?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech21><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.33>Fear me not.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech22><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.34>No, marry; I fear thee!</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech23><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.35>Let us take the law of our sides; letthem begin.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech24><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.36>I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as</A><br><A NAME=1.1.37>they list.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech25><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.38>Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.39>which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.</A><br><p><i>Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR</i></p><blockquote><A NAME=speech26><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.40>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech27><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.41>I do bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech28><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.42>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech29><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.43>[Aside toGREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say</A><br><A NAME=1.1.44>ay?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech30><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.45>No.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech31><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.46>No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.47>bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech32><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.48>Do you quarrel,sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech33><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.49>Quarrel sir! no, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech34><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.50>If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech35><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.51>No better.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech36><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.52>Well, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech37><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.53>Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech38><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.54>Yes, better, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech39><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.55>You lie.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech40><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.56>Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter BENVOLIO</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech41><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.57>Part, fools!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.58>Put up your swords; you know not what you do.</A><br><p><i>Beats down their swords</i></p><p><i>Enter TYBALT</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech42><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.59>What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?</A><br><A NAME=1.1.60>Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech43><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.61>I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.62>Or manage it to part these men with me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech44><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.63>What, drawn, andtalk of peace! I hate the word,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.64>As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.65>Have at thee, coward!</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech45><b>First Citizen</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.66>Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.67>Downwith the Capulets! down with the Montagues!</A><br><p><i>Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech46><b>CAPULET</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.68>What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.1>Two households, both alike in dignity,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.2>In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.3>From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.4>Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.5>From forth the fatal loins of these two foes</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.6>A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.7>Whose misadventured piteous overthrows</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.8>Do with their death bury their parents' strife.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.9>The fearful passage of their death mark'd love,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.10>And the continuance of their parents' rage,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.11>Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.12>Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.13>The which if you with patient ears attend,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.14>What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.</A><br> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE I. Verona. A public place.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers</i> </blockquote><A NAME=speech1><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.1>Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech2><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.2>No, for then we should be colliers.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech3><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.3>I mean, an we be in choler, we'lldraw.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech4><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.4>Ay, while you live, drawyour neck out o' the collar.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech5><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.5>Istrike quickly, being moved.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech6><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.6>But thou art not quickly moved to strike.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech7><b>SAMPSON<b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.7>A dog of the house of Montague moves me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech8><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.8>To move is to stir; and to be valiant is tostand:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.9>therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech9><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.10>A dog of that house shall move me to stand: Iwill</A><br><A NAME=1.1.11>take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech10><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.12>That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakestgoes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.13>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech11><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.14>True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.15>are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push</A><br><A NAME=1.1.16>Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids</A><br><A NAME=1.1.17>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech12><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.18>The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech13><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.19>'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.20>have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the</A><br><A NAME=1.1.21>maids, and cut off their heads.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech14><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.22>The heads of the maids?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech15><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.23>Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.24>take it in what sense thou wilt.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech16><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.25>They must take it in sense that feel it.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech17><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.26>Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and</A><br><A NAME=1.1.27>'tis known I am apretty piece of flesh.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech18><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.28>'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou</A><br><A NAME=1.1.29>hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.30>two of the house of the Montagues.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech19><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.31>My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech20><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.32>How! turn thy back and run?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech21><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.33>Fear me not.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech22><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.34>No, marry; I fear thee!</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech23><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.35>Let us take the law of our sides; letthem begin.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech24><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.36>I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as</A><br><A NAME=1.1.37>they list.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech25><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.38>Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.39>which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.</A><br><p><i>Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR</i></p><blockquote><A NAME=speech26><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.40>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech27><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.41>I do bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech28><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.42>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech29><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.43>[Aside toGREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say</A><br><A NAME=1.1.44>ay?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech30><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.45>No.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech31><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.46>No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.47>bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech32><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.48>Do you quarrel,sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech33><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.49>Quarrel sir! no, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech34><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.50>If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech35><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.51>No better.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech36><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.52>Well, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech37><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.53>Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech38><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.54>Yes, better, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech39><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.55>You lie.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech40><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.56>Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter BENVOLIO</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech41><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.57>Part, fools!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.58>Put up your swords; you know not what you do.</A><br><p><i>Beats down their swords</i></p><p><i>Enter TYBALT</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech42><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.59>What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?</A><br><A NAME=1.1.60>Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech43><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.61>I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.62>Or manage it to part these men with me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech44><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.63>What, drawn, andtalk of peace! I hate the word,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.64>As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.65>Have at thee, coward!</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech45><b>First Citizen</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.66>Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.67>Downwith the Capulets! down with the Montagues!</A><br><p><i>Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech46><b>CAPULET</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.68>What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!</A><br><A NAME=1.0.1>Two households, both alike in dignity,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.2>In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.3>From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.4>Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.5>From forth the fatal loins of these two foes</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.6>A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.7>Whose misadventured piteous overthrows</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.8>Do with their death bury their parents' strife.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.9>The fearful passage of their death mark'd love,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.10>And the continuance of their parents' rage,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.11>Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.12>Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.13>The which if you with patient ears attend,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.14>What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.</A><br> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE I. Verona. A public place.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers</i> </blockquote><A NAME=speech1><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.1>Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech2><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.2>No, for then we should be colliers.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech3><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.3>I mean, an we be in choler, we'lldraw.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech4><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.4>Ay, while you live, drawyour neck out o' the collar.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech5><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.5>Istrike quickly, being moved.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech6><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.6>But thou art not quickly moved to strike.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech7><b>SAMPSON<b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.7>A dog of the house of Montague moves me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech8><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.8>To move is to stir; and to be valiant is tostand:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.9>therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech9><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.10>A dog of that house shall move me to stand: Iwill</A><br><A NAME=1.1.11>take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech10><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.12>That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakestgoes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.13>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech11><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.14>True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.15>are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push</A><br><A NAME=1.1.16>Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids</A><br><A NAME=1.1.17>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech12><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.18>The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech13><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.19>'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.20>have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the</A><br><A NAME=1.1.21>maids, and cut off their heads.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech14><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.22>The heads of the maids?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech15><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.23>Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.24>take it in what sense thou wilt.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech16><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.25>They must take it in sense that feel it.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech17><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.26>Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and</A><br><A NAME=1.1.27>'tis known I am apretty piece of flesh.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech18><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.28>'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou</A><br><A NAME=1.1.29>hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.30>two of the house of the Montagues.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech19><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.31>My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech20><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.32>How! turn thy back and run?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech21><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.33>Fear me not.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech22><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.34>No, marry; I fear thee!</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech23><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.35>Let us take the law of our sides; letthem begin.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech24><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.36>I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as</A><br><A NAME=1.1.37>they list.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech25><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.38>Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.39>which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.</A><br><p><i>Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR</i></p><blockquote><A NAME=speech26><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.40>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech27><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.41>I do bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech28><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.42>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech29><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.43>[Aside toGREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say</A><br><A NAME=1.1.44>ay?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech30><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.45>No.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech31><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.46>No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.47>bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech32><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.48>Do you quarrel,sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech33><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.49>Quarrel sir! no, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech34><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.50>If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech35><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.51>No better.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech36><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.52>Well, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech37><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.53>Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech38><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.54>Yes, better, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech39><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.55>You lie.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech40><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.56>Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter BENVOLIO</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech41><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.57>Part, fools!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.58>Put up your swords; you know not what you do.</A><br><p><i>Beats down their swords</i></p><p><i>Enter TYBALT</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech42><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.59>What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?</A><br><A NAME=1.1.60>Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech43><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.61>I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.62>Or manage it to part these men with me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech44><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.63>What, drawn, andtalk of peace! I hate the word,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.64>As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.65>Have at thee, coward!</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech45><b>First Citizen</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.66>Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.67>Downwith the Capulets! down with the Montagues!</A><br><p><i>Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech46><b>CAPULET</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.68>What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!</A><br><A NAME=1.0.1>Two households, both alike in dignity,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.2>In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.3>From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.4>Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.5>From forth the fatal loins of these two foes</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.6>A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.7>Whose misadventured piteous overthrows</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.8>Do with their death bury their parents' strife.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.9>The fearful passage of their death mark'd love,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.10>And the continuance of their parents' rage,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.11>Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.12>Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.13>The which if you with patient ears attend,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.14>What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.</A><br> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE I. Verona. A public place.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers</i> </blockquote><A NAME=speech1><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.1>Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech2><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.2>No, for then we should be colliers.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech3><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.3>I mean, an we be in choler, we'lldraw.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech4><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.4>Ay, while you live, drawyour neck out o' the collar.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech5><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.5>Istrike quickly, being moved.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech6><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.6>But thou art not quickly moved to strike.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech7><b>SAMPSON<b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.7>A dog of the house of Montague moves me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech8><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.8>To move is to stir; and to be valiant is tostand:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.9>therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech9><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.10>A dog of that house shall move me to stand: Iwill</A><br><A NAME=1.1.11>take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech10><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.12>That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakestgoes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.13>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech11><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.14>True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.15>are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push</A><br><A NAME=1.1.16>Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids</A><br><A NAME=1.1.17>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech12><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.18>The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech13><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.19>'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.20>have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the</A><br><A NAME=1.1.21>maids, and cut off their heads.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech14><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.22>The heads of the maids?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech15><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.23>Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.24>take it in what sense thou wilt.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech16><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.25>They must take it in sense that feel it.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech17><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.26>Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and</A><br><A NAME=1.1.27>'tis known I am apretty piece of flesh.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech18><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.28>'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou</A><br><A NAME=1.1.29>hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.30>two of the house of the Montagues.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech19><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.31>My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech20><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.32>How! turn thy back and run?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech21><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.33>Fear me not.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech22><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.34>No, marry; I fear thee!</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech23><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.35>Let us take the law of our sides; letthem begin.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech24><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.36>I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as</A><br><A NAME=1.1.37>they list.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech25><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.38>Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.39>which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.</A><br><p><i>Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR</i></p><blockquote><A NAME=speech26><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.40>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech27><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.41>I do bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech28><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.42>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech29><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.43>[Aside toGREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say</A><br><A NAME=1.1.44>ay?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech30><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.45>No.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech31><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.46>No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.47>bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech32><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.48>Do you quarrel,sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech33><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.49>Quarrel sir! no, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech34><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.50>If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech35><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.51>No better.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech36><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.52>Well, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech37><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.53>Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech38><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.54>Yes, better, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech39><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.55>You lie.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech40><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.56>Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter BENVOLIO</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech41><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.57>Part, fools!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.58>Put up your swords; you know not what you do.</A><br><p><i>Beats down their swords</i></p><p><i>Enter TYBALT</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech42><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.59>What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?</A><br><A NAME=1.1.60>Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech43><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.61>I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.62>Or manage it to part these men with me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech44><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.63>What, drawn, andtalk of peace! I hate the word,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.64>As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.65>Have at thee, coward!</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech45><b>First Citizen</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.66>Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.67>Downwith the Capulets! down with the Montagues!</A><br><p><i>Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech46><b>CAPULET</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.68>What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!</A><br><A NAME=1.0.1>Two households, both alike in dignity,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.2>In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.3>From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.4>Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.5>From forth the fatal loins of these two foes</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.6>A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.7>Whose misadventured piteous overthrows</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.8>Do with their death bury their parents' strife.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.9>The fearful passage of their death mark'd love,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.10>And the continuance of their parents' rage,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.11>Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.12>Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.13>The which if you with patient ears attend,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.14>What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.</A><br> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE I. Verona. A public place.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers</i> </blockquote><A NAME=speech1><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.1>Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech2><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.2>No, for then we should be colliers.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech3><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.3>I mean, an we be in choler, we'lldraw.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech4><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.4>Ay, while you live, drawyour neck out o' the collar.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech5><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.5>Istrike quickly, being moved.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech6><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.6>But thou art not quickly moved to strike.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech7><b>SAMPSON<b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.7>A dog of the house of Montague moves me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech8><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.8>To move is to stir; and to be valiant is tostand:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.9>therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech9><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.10>A dog of that house shall move me to stand: Iwill</A><br><A NAME=1.1.11>take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech10><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.12>That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakestgoes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.13>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech11><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.14>True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.15>are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push</A><br><A NAME=1.1.16>Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids</A><br><A NAME=1.1.17>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech12><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.18>The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech13><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.19>'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.20>have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the</A><br><A NAME=1.1.21>maids, and cut off their heads.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech14><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.22>The heads of the maids?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech15><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.23>Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.24>take it in what sense thou wilt.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech16><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.25>They must take it in sense that feel it.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech17><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.26>Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and</A><br><A NAME=1.1.27>'tis known I am apretty piece of flesh.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech18><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.28>'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou</A><br><A NAME=1.1.29>hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.30>two of the house of the Montagues.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech19><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.31>My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech20><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.32>How! turn thy back and run?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech21><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.33>Fear me not.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech22><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.34>No, marry; I fear thee!</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech23><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.35>Let us take the law of our sides; letthem begin.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech24><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.36>I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as</A><br><A NAME=1.1.37>they list.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech25><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.38>Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.39>which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.</A><br><p><i>Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR</i></p><blockquote><A NAME=speech26><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.40>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech27><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.41>I do bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech28><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.42>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech29><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.43>[Aside toGREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say</A><br><A NAME=1.1.44>ay?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech30><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.45>No.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech31><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.46>No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.47>bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech32><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.48>Do you quarrel,sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech33><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.49>Quarrel sir! no, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech34><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.50>If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech35><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.51>No better.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech36><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.52>Well, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech37><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.53>Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech38><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.54>Yes, better, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech39><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.55>You lie.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech40><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.56>Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter BENVOLIO</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech41><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.57>Part, fools!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.58>Put up your swords; you know not what you do.</A><br><p><i>Beats down their swords</i></p><p><i>Enter TYBALT</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech42><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.59>What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?</A><br><A NAME=1.1.60>Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech43><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.61>I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.62>Or manage it to part these men with me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech44><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.63>What, drawn, andtalk of peace! I hate the word,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.64>As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.65>Have at thee, coward!</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech45><b>First Citizen</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.66>Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.67>Downwith the Capulets! down with the Montagues!</A><br><p><i>Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech46><b>CAPULET</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.68>What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!</A><br><A NAME=1.0.1>Two households, both alike in dignity,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.2>In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.3>From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.4>Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.5>From forth the fatal loins of these two foes</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.6>A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.7>Whose misadventured piteous overthrows</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.8>Do with their death bury their parents' strife.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.9>The fearful passage of their death mark'd love,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.10>And the continuance of their parents' rage,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.11>Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.12>Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.13>The which if you with patient ears attend,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.14>What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.</A><br> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE I. Verona. A public place.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers</i> </blockquote><A NAME=speech1><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.1>Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech2><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.2>No, for then we should be colliers.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech3><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.3>I mean, an we be in choler, we'lldraw.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech4><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.4>Ay, while you live, drawyour neck out o' the collar.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech5><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.5>Istrike quickly, being moved.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech6><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.6>But thou art not quickly moved to strike.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech7><b>SAMPSON<b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.7>A dog of the house of Montague moves me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech8><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.8>To move is to stir; and to be valiant is tostand:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.9>therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech9><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.10>A dog of that house shall move me to stand: Iwill</A><br><A NAME=1.1.11>take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech10><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.12>That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakestgoes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.13>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech11><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.14>True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.15>are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push</A><br><A NAME=1.1.16>Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids</A><br><A NAME=1.1.17>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech12><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.18>The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech13><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.19>'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.20>have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the</A><br><A NAME=1.1.21>maids, and cut off their heads.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech14><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.22>The heads of the maids?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech15><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.23>Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.24>take it in what sense thou wilt.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech16><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.25>They must take it in sense that feel it.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech17><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.26>Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and</A><br><A NAME=1.1.27>'tis known I am apretty piece of flesh.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech18><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.28>'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou</A><br><A NAME=1.1.29>hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.30>two of the house of the Montagues.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech19><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.31>My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech20><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.32>How! turn thy back and run?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech21><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.33>Fear me not.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech22><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.34>No, marry; I fear thee!</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech23><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.35>Let us take the law of our sides; letthem begin.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech24><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.36>I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as</A><br><A NAME=1.1.37>they list.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech25><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.38>Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.39>which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.</A><br><p><i>Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR</i></p><blockquote><A NAME=speech26><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.40>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech27><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.41>I do bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech28><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.42>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech29><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.43>[Aside toGREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say</A><br><A NAME=1.1.44>ay?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech30><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.45>No.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech31><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.46>No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.47>bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech32><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.48>Do you quarrel,sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech33><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.49>Quarrel sir! no, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech34><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.50>If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech35><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.51>No better.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech36><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.52>Well, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech37><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.53>Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech38><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.54>Yes, better, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech39><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.55>You lie.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech40><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.56>Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter BENVOLIO</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech41><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.57>Part, fools!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.58>Put up your swords; you know not what you do.</A><br><p><i>Beats down their swords</i></p><p><i>Enter TYBALT</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech42><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.59>What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?</A><br><A NAME=1.1.60>Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech43><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.61>I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.62>Or manage it to part these men with me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech44><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.63>What, drawn, andtalk of peace! I hate the word,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.64>As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.65>Have at thee, coward!</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech45><b>First Citizen</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.66>Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.67>Downwith the Capulets! down with the Montagues!</A><br><p><i>Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech46><b>CAPULET</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.68>What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!</A><br><A NAME=1.0.1>Two households, both alike in dignity,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.2>In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.3>From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.4>Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.5>From forth the fatal loins of these two foes</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.6>A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.7>Whose misadventured piteous overthrows</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.8>Do with their death bury their parents' strife.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.9>The fearful passage of their death mark'd love,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.10>And the continuance of their parents' rage,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.11>Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.12>Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.13>The which if you with patient ears attend,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.14>What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.</A><br> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE I. Verona. A public place.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers</i> </blockquote><A NAME=speech1><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.1>Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech2><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.2>No, for then we should be colliers.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech3><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.3>I mean, an we be in choler, we'lldraw.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech4><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.4>Ay, while you live, drawyour neck out o' the collar.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech5><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.5>Istrike quickly, being moved.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech6><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.6>But thou art not quickly moved to strike.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech7><b>SAMPSON<b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.7>A dog of the house of Montague moves me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech8><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.8>To move is to stir; and to be valiant is tostand:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.9>therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech9><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.10>A dog of that house shall move me to stand: Iwill</A><br><A NAME=1.1.11>take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech10><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.12>That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakestgoes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.13>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech11><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.14>True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.15>are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push</A><br><A NAME=1.1.16>Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids</A><br><A NAME=1.1.17>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech12><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.18>The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech13><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.19>'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.20>have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the</A><br><A NAME=1.1.21>maids, and cut off their heads.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech14><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.22>The heads of the maids?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech15><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.23>Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.24>take it in what sense thou wilt.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech16><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.25>They must take it in sense that feel it.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech17><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.26>Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and</A><br><A NAME=1.1.27>'tis known I am apretty piece of flesh.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech18><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.28>'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou</A><br><A NAME=1.1.29>hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.30>two of the house of the Montagues.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech19><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.31>My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech20><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.32>How! turn thy back and run?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech21><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.33>Fear me not.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech22><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.34>No, marry; I fear thee!</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech23><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.35>Let us take the law of our sides; letthem begin.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech24><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.36>I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as</A><br><A NAME=1.1.37>they list.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech25><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.38>Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.39>which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.</A><br><p><i>Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR</i></p><blockquote><A NAME=speech26><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.40>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech27><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.41>I do bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech28><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.42>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech29><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.43>[Aside toGREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say</A><br><A NAME=1.1.44>ay?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech30><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.45>No.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech31><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.46>No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.47>bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech32><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.48>Do you quarrel,sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech33><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.49>Quarrel sir! no, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech34><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.50>If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech35><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.51>No better.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech36><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.52>Well, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech37><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.53>Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech38><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.54>Yes, better, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech39><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.55>You lie.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech40><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.56>Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter BENVOLIO</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech41><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.57>Part, fools!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.58>Put up your swords; you know not what you do.</A><br><p><i>Beats down their swords</i></p><p><i>Enter TYBALT</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech42><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.59>What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?</A><br><A NAME=1.1.60>Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech43><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.61>I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.62>Or manage it to part these men with me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech44><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.63>What, drawn, andtalk of peace! I hate the word,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.64>As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.65>Have at thee, coward!</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech45><b>First Citizen</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.66>Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.67>Downwith the Capulets! down with the Montagues!</A><br><p><i>Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech46><b>CAPULET</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.68>What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!</A><br><A NAME=1.0.1>Two households, both alike in dignity,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.2>In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.3>From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.4>Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.5>From forth the fatal loins of these two foes</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.6>A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.7>Whose misadventured piteous overthrows</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.8>Do with their death bury their parents' strife.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.9>The fearful passage of their death mark'd love,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.10>And the continuance of their parents' rage,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.11>Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.12>Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.13>The which if you with patient ears attend,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.14>What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.</A><br> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE I. Verona. A public place.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers</i> </blockquote><A NAME=speech1><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.1>Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech2><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.2>No, for then we should be colliers.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech3><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.3>I mean, an we be in choler, we'lldraw.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech4><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.4>Ay, while you live, drawyour neck out o' the collar.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech5><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.5>Istrike quickly, being moved.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech6><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.6>But thou art not quickly moved to strike.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech7><b>SAMPSON<b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.7>A dog of the house of Montague moves me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech8><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.8>To move is to stir; and to be valiant is tostand:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.9>therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech9><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.10>A dog of that house shall move me to stand: Iwill</A><br><A NAME=1.1.11>take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech10><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.12>That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakestgoes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.13>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech11><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.14>True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.15>are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push</A><br><A NAME=1.1.16>Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids</A><br><A NAME=1.1.17>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech12><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.18>The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech13><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.19>'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.20>have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the</A><br><A NAME=1.1.21>maids, and cut off their heads.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech14><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.22>The heads of the maids?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech15><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.23>Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.24>take it in what sense thou wilt.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech16><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.25>They must take it in sense that feel it.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech17><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.26>Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and</A><br><A NAME=1.1.27>'tis known I am apretty piece of flesh.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech18><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.28>'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou</A><br><A NAME=1.1.29>hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.30>two of the house of the Montagues.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech19><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.31>My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech20><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.32>How! turn thy back and run?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech21><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.33>Fear me not.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech22><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.34>No, marry; I fear thee!</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech23><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.35>Let us take the law of our sides; letthem begin.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech24><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.36>I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as</A><br><A NAME=1.1.37>they list.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech25><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.38>Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.39>which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.</A><br><p><i>Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR</i></p><blockquote><A NAME=speech26><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.40>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech27><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.41>I do bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech28><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.42>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech29><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.43>[Aside toGREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say</A><br><A NAME=1.1.44>ay?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech30><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.45>No.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech31><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.46>No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.47>bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech32><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.48>Do you quarrel,sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech33><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.49>Quarrel sir! no, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech34><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.50>If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech35><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.51>No better.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech36><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.52>Well, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech37><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.53>Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech38><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.54>Yes, better, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech39><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.55>You lie.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech40><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.56>Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter BENVOLIO</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech41><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.57>Part, fools!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.58>Put up your swords; you know not what you do.</A><br><p><i>Beats down their swords</i></p><p><i>Enter TYBALT</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech42><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.59>What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?</A><br><A NAME=1.1.60>Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech43><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.61>I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.62>Or manage it to part these men with me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech44><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.63>What, drawn, andtalk of peace! I hate the word,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.64>As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.65>Have at thee, coward!</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech45><b>First Citizen</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.66>Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.67>Downwith the Capulets! down with the Montagues!</A><br><p><i>Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech46><b>CAPULET</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.68>What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!</A><br><A NAME=1.0.1>Two households, both alike in dignity,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.2>In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.3>From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.4>Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.5>From forth the fatal loins of these two foes</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.6>A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.7>Whose misadventured piteous overthrows</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.8>Do with their death bury their parents' strife.</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.9>The fearful passage of their death mark'd love,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.10>And the continuance of their parents' rage,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.11>Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.12>Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.13>The which if you with patient ears attend,</A><br> <A NAME=1.0.14>What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.</A><br> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE I. Verona. A public place.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers</i> </blockquote><A NAME=speech1><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.1>Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech2><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.2>No, for then we should be colliers.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech3><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.3>I mean, an we be in choler, we'lldraw.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech4><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.4>Ay, while you live, drawyour neck out o' the collar.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech5><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.5>Istrike quickly, being moved.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech6><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.6>But thou art not quickly moved to strike.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech7><b>SAMPSON<b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.7>A dog of the house of Montague moves me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech8><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.8>To move is to stir; and to be valiant is tostand:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.9>therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech9><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.10>A dog of that house shall move me to stand: Iwill</A><br><A NAME=1.1.11>take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech10><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.12>That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakestgoes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.13>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech11><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.14>True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.15>are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push</A><br><A NAME=1.1.16>Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids</A><br><A NAME=1.1.17>to the wall.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech12><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.18>The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.</A><br></blockquote><ANAME=speech13><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.19>'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.20>have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the</A><br><A NAME=1.1.21>maids, and cut off their heads.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech14><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.22>The heads of the maids?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech15><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.23>Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.24>take it in what sense thou wilt.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech16><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.25>They must take it in sense that feel it.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech17><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.26>Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and</A><br><A NAME=1.1.27>'tis known I am apretty piece of flesh.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech18><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.28>'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou</A><br><A NAME=1.1.29>hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes</A><br><A NAME=1.1.30>two of the house of the Montagues.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech19><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.31>My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.</A><br><blockquote><A NAME=speech20><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.32>How! turn thy back and run?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech21><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.33>Fear me not.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech22><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.34>No, marry; I fear thee!</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech23><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.35>Let us take the law of our sides; letthem begin.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech24><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.36>I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as</A><br><A NAME=1.1.37>they list.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech25><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.38>Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;</A><br><A NAME=1.1.39>which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.</A><br><p><i>Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR</i></p><blockquote><A NAME=speech26><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.40>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech27><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.41>I do bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech28><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.42>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech29><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.43>[Aside toGREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say</A><br><A NAME=1.1.44>ay?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech30><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.45>No.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech31><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.46>No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I</A><br><A NAME=1.1.47>bite my thumb, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech32><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.48>Do you quarrel,sir?</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech33><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.49>Quarrel sir! no, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech34><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.50>If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech35><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.51>No better.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech36><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><ANAME=1.1.52>Well, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech37><b>GREGORY</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.53>Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech38><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.54>Yes, better, sir.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech39><b>ABRAHAM</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.55>You lie.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech40><b>SAMPSON</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.56>Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter BENVOLIO</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech41><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.57>Part, fools!</A><br><A NAME=1.1.58>Put up your swords; you know not what you do.</A><br><p><i>Beats down their swords</i></p><p><i>Enter TYBALT</i></p></blockquote><A NAME=speech42><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.59>What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?</A><br><A NAME=1.1.60>Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech43><b>BENVOLIO</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.61>I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.62>Or manage it to part these men with me.</A><br></blockquote><A NAME=speech44><b>TYBALT</b></a><blockquote><A NAME=1.1.63>What, drawn, andtalk of peace! I hate the word,</A><br><A NAME=1.1.64>As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:</A><br><A NAME=1.1.65>Have at thee, coward!</A><br><p><i>They fight</i></p><p><i>Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs</i></p></b