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