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 All acts & scenes are listed on the Romeo & Juliet original text page, or linked to from the bottom of this page. Shakespeare’s original Romeo & Juliet text is extremely long, so we’ve split the text into one Act & Scene per page. This page contains the original text of Act 1, Scene 1 of Romeo & Juliet. 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.

Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.

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