Them, which is disgrace to them if they bear it.ĪBRAM 45 Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? GREGORY I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it SAMPSON Let us take the law of our sides let them GREGORY ’Tis well thou art not fish if thou hadst, thou SAMPSON Me they shall feel while I am able to stand,ģ0 and ’tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh. GREGORY They must take it ⌜in ⌝ sense that feel it. SAMPSON Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads. With the maids I will cut off their heads. When I have fought with the men, I will be civil GREGORY 20 The quarrel is between our masters and us I will push Montague’s men from the wall and Weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall. SAMPSON ’Tis true, and therefore women, being the GREGORY That shows thee a weak slave, for the weakest Will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s. SAMPSON A dog of that house shall move me to stand. GREGORY To move is to stir, and to be valiant is toġ0 stand. SAMPSON A dog of the house of Montague moves me. GREGORY But thou art not quickly moved to strike. GREGORY Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of SAMPSON I mean, an we be in choler, we’ll draw. GREGORY No, for then we should be colliers. SAMPSON Gregory, on my word we’ll not carry coals. ⌜Scene 1 ⌝ Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, Their deaths appear finally to end the feud. Juliet wakes, sees his body, and commits suicide. The plan goes awry, and Romeo learns instead that she is dead. The friar will send Romeo word to be at her family tomb when she awakes. To avoid this marriage, Juliet takes a potion, given her by the friar, that makes her appear dead. Juliet’s father forces her into a marriage with Count Paris. He spends that night with Juliet and then leaves for Mantua. When Romeo refuses to fight, Romeo’s friend Mercutio accepts the challenge and is killed.

Romeo and his companions almost immediately encounter Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, who challenges Romeo. Their families are enmeshed in a feud, but the moment they meet-when Romeo and his friends attend a party at Juliet’s house in disguise-the two fall in love and quickly decide that they want to be married.Ī friar secretly marries them, hoping to end the feud. Romeo is a Montague, and Juliet a Capulet. The prologue of Romeo and Juliet calls the title characters “star-crossed lovers”-and the stars do seem to conspire against these young lovers.

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