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