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