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