Matching Pairs Act I PrologueOnline version Match the lines of the original text with the modern-day translation. by Megan DeRuiter 1 In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, 2 The which if you with patient ears attend, 3 Whose misadventured piteous overthrows 4 What here shall miss, our toils shall strive to mend. 5 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. 6 Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage; 7 Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. 8 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes 9 Which, but their children’s end naught could remove, 10 Two households, both alike in dignity, 11 A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; 12 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, 13 And the continuance of their parents’ rage, 14 The fearful passage of their death-marked love, is what you (the audience) will be watching in this 2 hour long play. We (actors) will work to clear up an-ything we left out of this prologue. If you (the audience) listen well and pay attention, The kids of these two enemies and ongoing family fighting, are fated to be together and will commit suicide; where civil people are acting uncivilized. ended by the death of their children, Two families of the same social and economic standing, in Verona, where the story takes place, Will with their death, end the families’ feud. is an old fight that is resurfacing, The tragic love story Their unlucky, tragic actions
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