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