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