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