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Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY of the house of Capulet, with swords and bucklers
SAMPSON and GREGORY, servants of the Capulet family, enter carrying swords and small shields.
 SAMPSON
  Gregory, on my word, we'll not carry coals.
SAMPSON
Gregory, I swear, we can't let them humiliate us. We won't take their garbage.
 GREGORY
  No, for then we should be colliers.
GREGORY
(teasing SAMPSON) No, because then we'd be garbagemen.
 SAMPSON
  I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.
SAMPSON
What I mean is, if they make us angry we'll pull out our swords.
 GREGORY
  Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar.
GREGORY
Maybe you should focus on pulling yourself out of trouble, Sampson.
 SAMPSON
5 I strike quickly, being moved.
SAMPSON
I hit hard when I'm angry.
 GREGORY
  But thou art not quickly moved to strike.
GREGORY
But it's hard to make you angry .
 SAMPSON
  A dog of the house of Montague moves me.
SAMPSON
One of those dogs from the Montague house can make me angry.
 GREGORY
  To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand.
  Therefore if thou art moved thou runn'st away.
GREGORY
Angry enough to run away. You won't stand and fight.
 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.
SAMPSON
A dog from that house will make me angry enough to take a stand. If I pass one of them on the street, I'll take the side closer to the wall and let him walk in the gutter.

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