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