Two households, both alike in dignity,
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
But thou art not quickly moved to strike.
SAMPSON
A dog of the house of Montague moves me.
GREGORY
To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand:
therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.
SAMPSON
A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will
take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.
GREGORY
That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes
to the wall.
SAMPSON
I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as
they list.
True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,
are ever thrust to the wall
thrust his maids
to the wall.
the weakest goes
to the wall.
To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand:
therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.
