Relier Pairs Prologue Pair-UpVersion en ligne Match the lines from the Prologue to Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet with the modern English translation. par Michelle Sueck 1 Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage 2 Whose misadventured piteous overthrows 3 Two households, both alike in dignity, 4 In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, 5 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes 6 A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; 7 Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. 8 What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. 9 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny 10 The fearful passage of their death-marked love, 11 And the continuance of their parents’ rage, 12 Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove 13 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean 14 The which if you with patient ears attend and their parents continuing anger, living in lovely Verona, where our play is set, The son of one enemy and the daughter of the other, bury their parents’ quarrel. victims of unfavorable fate, commit suicide. If you will listen patiently, Break out in renewed violence due to an old grudge. Which nothing except their children’s deaths could end, our play will fill in what is missing from the prologue. Two equally respected families, you will see acted in the next two hours on our stage. The sad story if their ill-fated love, the townspeople soil their hands with each other’s blood. Their unfortunate, pitiful deaths
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