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