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