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SCENE I. Verona. A public place.
Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers
Speaker: SAMPSON
Gregory, o’ my word, we’ll not carry coals.
Speaker: GREGORY
No, for then we should be colliers.
Speaker: SAMPSON
I mean, an we be in choler, we’ll draw.
Speaker: GREGORY
Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o’ the collar.
Speaker: SAMPSON
I strike quickly, being moved.
Speaker: GREGORY
But thou art not quickly moved to strike.
Speaker: SAMPSON
A dog of the house of Montague moves me.
Speaker: GREGORY
To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand:
therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn’st away.
Speaker: SAMPSON
A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will
take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.
Speaker: GREGORY
That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes
to the wall.
Speaker: SAMPSON
True; and therefore women, 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.
Speaker: GREGORY
The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.
to be continued…
