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