The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Enter Sampson and Gregory (with swords and bucklers) of the house of Capulet.Samp. Gregory, on my word, we'll not carry coals.Greg. No, for then we should be colliers.Samp. I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.Greg. Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar.Samp. I strike quickly, being moved.Greg. But thou art not quickly moved to strike.Samp. A dog of the house of Montague moves me.  Greg. To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand.     Therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.  Samp. A dog of that house shall move me to stand. I will take     the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.  Greg. That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes to the     wall.  Samp. 'Tis true; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,     are ever thrust to the wall. Therefore I will push Montague's men     from t

Enter Capulet's Wife, and Nurse.Wife. Nurse, where's my daughter? Call her forth to me.  Nurse. Now, by my maidenhead at twelve year old,     I bade her come. What, lamb! what ladybird!     God forbid! Where's this girl? What, Juliet!Enter Juliet.Jul. How now? Who calls?Nurse. Your mother.  Jul. Madam, I am here.     What is your will?  Wife. This is the matter- Nurse, give leave awhile,     We must talk in secret. Nurse, come back again;     I have rememb'red me, thou's hear our counsel.     Thou knowest my daughter's of a pretty age.Nurse. Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.Wife. She's not fourteen.  Nurse. I'll lay fourteen of my teeth-     And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four-     She is not fourteen. How long is it now     To La

Servingmen come forth with napkins.  1. Serv. Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away?     He shift a trencher! he scrape a trencher!   2. Serv. When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's     hands, and they unwash'd too, 'tis a foul thing.   1. Serv. Away with the join-stools, remove the court-cubbert,     look to the plate. Good thou, save me a piece of marchpane and, as     thou loves me, let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.     Anthony, and Potpan!   2. Serv. Ay, boy, ready.   1. Serv. You are look'd for and call'd for, ask'd for and     sought for, in the great chamber.   3. Serv. We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys!     Be brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all. Exeunt.    Enter the Maskers, Enter, [with Servants,] C

Enter Romeo alone.  Rom. Can I go forward when my heart is here?     Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.                      [Climbs the wall and leaps down within it.]Enter Benvolio with Mercutio.Ben. Romeo! my cousin Romeo! Romeo!  Mer. He is wise,     And, on my life, hath stol'n him home to bed.  Ben. He ran this way, and leapt this orchard wall.     Call, good Mercutio.  Mer. Nay, I'll conjure too.     Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover!     Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh;     Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied!     Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove';     Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,     One nickn

Enter Friar, [Laurence] alone, with a basket.  Friar. The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night,     Check'ring the Eastern clouds with streaks of light;     And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels     From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels.     Non, ere the sun advance his burning eye     The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,     I must up-fill this osier cage of ours     With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.     The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb.     What is her burying gave, that is her womb;     And from her womb children of divers kind     We sucking on her natural bosom find;     Many for many virtues excellent,     None but for some, and yet all different.  &nbs