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