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