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