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