The most Excellent and Lamentable

TRAGEDIE,

O F

ROMEO and JULIET.

As it hath beene fundrie Times publiquely acted,

By the Kings Maiefties Seruants at the Globe.

Newly corrected, augmented, and amended.

LONDON.

Printed for IOHN SMETHWICK, and are to be fold at his Shop in Saint Dunftanes Church-yard, in Fleeteftreete vnder the Dyall. 1609.

THE

PROLOGUE.

CHORUS.

WO houfholds both alike in dignity,

TW

(In faire Verona, where we lay our fcene)
From auncient grudge breake to new mutinie,
Where ciuill bloud makes ciuill hands vncleane.
From forth the fatall loynes of these two foes,
A paire of starre-croft louers take their life :
Whose misaduentur'd pittious ouerthrowes,
Doth with their death bury their parents ftrife.
The feareful paffage of their death-markt loue,
And the continuance of their parents rage,

Which but their childrens end nought could remoue :
Is now the two houres traficque of our stage.

The which if you with patient eares attend,

What here fhal miffe, our toile, fhall ftriue to mend.

VOL. IV.

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THE

The Most Excellent and Lamentable

TRAGEDIE

O F

ROMEO and IVLIET.

Enter Samplon and Gregorie, with fwords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

G

Sampson.

REGORIE, on my word weele not carry coles.
Greg. No, for then we should be collyers.

Samp. I meane, and we be in choller, weele draw.

Greg. I while you liue, draw your necke out of choller:* Samp. I ftrike quickly being moued.

Greg. But thou art not quickly moued to ftrike.

Samp. A dog of the house of Mountague moues me.

Greg. To moue is to stirre, and to be valiant, is to stand. Therefore if thou art moued thou runft away.

Samp. A dog of that houfe fhall moue me to ftand.

I will take the wall of any man or maide of Mountagues..