Matching Pairs Prologue Pair-UpOnline version Match the lines from the Prologue to Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet with the modern English translation. by Michelle Sueck 1 Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. 2 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean 3 Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove 4 What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. 5 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny 6 Two households, both alike in dignity, 7 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes 8 Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage 9 The which if you with patient ears attend 10 The fearful passage of their death-marked love, 11 In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, 12 And the continuance of their parents’ rage, 13 A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; 14 Whose misadventured piteous overthrows victims of unfavorable fate, commit suicide. living in lovely Verona, where our play is set, the townspeople soil their hands with each other’s blood. If you will listen patiently, Break out in renewed violence due to an old grudge. bury their parents’ quarrel. our play will fill in what is missing from the prologue. Their unfortunate, pitiful deaths Which nothing except their children’s deaths could end, and their parents continuing anger, Two equally respected families, you will see acted in the next two hours on our stage. The son of one enemy and the daughter of the other, The sad story if their ill-fated love,
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