![]() ![]() Everyone else, leave this place right now, or I will have you killed. Montague, you come this afternoon to old Free-town, where I deliver my judgments. Capulet, you come with me in order to hear what else I want from you. If any of you Capulets or Montagues disturb the peace in the future, you will pay for it with your lives. GREGORY Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o the collar. SAMPSON I mean, an we be in choler, well draw. GREGORY No, for then we should be colliers. Download PDF Contents Summary Chapter Summaries Themes Characters Symbols Quotes Written and first published at the end of the sixteenth century, Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare’s best-known romantic tragedy. These battles have forced even Verona’s elderly citizens to take off their dignified clothes and jewelry and instead pick up old and rusty spears in order to put an end to your fighting. Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers SAMPSON Gregory, o my word, well not carry coals. Because of nothing more than a casual word from you, Capulet and Montague, three battles have raged in our city’s streets. I will torture you unless you drop your weapons from your bloody hands and listen to me, your enraged Prince. Silence! You men, you beasts, who can only put out the fire of your anger by spilling fountains of blood. ![]() You rebels and enemies of the peace, who curse your own weapons by turning them on your neighbors. Even though this is an urban slang version of Shakespeares play, exposure to Shakespeares works in. ![]()
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