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No Fear Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet (by SparkNotes) -1- Original Text Prologue Enter CHORUS CHORUS 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. 5 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-marked love 10 And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, naught could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stageThe which, if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. Exit Act 1, Scene 1 Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY of the house of Capulet, with swords and bucklers SAMPSON Gregory, on my word, we'll not carry coals. GREGORY No, for then we should be colliers. SAMPSON I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw. GREGORY Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar. SAMPSON 5 I strike quickly, being moved. GREGORY 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 10 A dog of that house shall move me to stand. I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's. Modern Text The CHORUS enters. CHORUS In the beautiful city of Verona, where our story takes place, a long-standing hatred between two families erupts into new violence, and citizens stain their hands with the blood of their fellow citizens. Two unlucky children of these enemy families become lovers and commit suicide. Their unfortunate deaths put an end to their parents' feud. For the next two hours, we will watch the story of their doomed love and their parents' anger, which nothing but the children's deaths could stop. If you listen to us patiently, we'll make up for everything we've left out in this prologue onstage. The CHORUS exits. SAMPSON and GREGORY, servants of the Capulet family, enter carrying swords and small shields. SAMPSON Gregory, I swear, we can't let them humiliate us. We won't take their garbage. GREGORY (teasing SAMPSON) No, because then we'd be garbagemen. SAMPSON What I mean is, if they make us angry we'll pull out our swords. GREGORY Maybe you should focus on pulling yourself out of trouble, Sampson. SAMPSON I hit hard when l'm angry. GREGORY But it's …