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