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