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