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