

The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared, Here were the servants of your adversary,Īnd yours, close fighting ere I did approach: Speak, nephew, were you by when it began? Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach? Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.Įxeunt all but MONTAGUE, LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO To old Free-town, our common judgment-place. To know our further pleasure in this case, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. Have thrice disturb’d the quiet of our streets,Ĭanker’d with peace, to part your canker’d hate: Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, Throw your mistemper’d weapons to the ground,Īnd hear the sentence of your moved prince. On pain of torture, from those bloody hands With purple fountains issuing from your veins, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts, Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,– Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe. Thou villain Capulet,–Hold me not, let me go. What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!Ī crutch, a crutch! why call you for a sword? What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,Įnter, several of both houses, who join the fray then enter Citizens, with clubsĬlubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!ĭown with the Capulets! down with the Montagues!Įnter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death. What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Put up your swords you know not what you do. Say ‘better:’ here comes one of my master’s kinsmen.ĭraw, if you be men. If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you. No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I Which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.

I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as

Let us take the law of our sides let them begin. My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee. Tis well thou art not fish if thou hadst, thou Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and Have fought with the men, I will be cruel with theĪy, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I The quarrel is between our masters and us their men. Montague’s men from the wall, and thrust his maids True and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,Īre ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push That shows thee a weak slave for the weakest goes Take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s. Therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn’st away.Ī dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will To move is to stir and to be valiant is to stand: Gregory, o’ my word, we’ll not carry coals.Īy, while you live, draw your neck out o’ the collar.īut thou art not quickly moved to strike. A public place.Įnter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. The which if you with patient ears attend, Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove, The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,Īnd the continuance of their parents’ rage,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.įrom forth the fatal loins of these two foesĪ pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life ĭo with their death bury their parents’ strife.
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Romeo and Juliet Full Play ACT I PROLOGUE Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.
