William Shakespeare (15641616). The Oxford Shakespeare. 1914. | | |
Romeo and Juliet | | Prologue. |
| Enter Chorus. | |
Chor. Two households, both alike in dignity, | |
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, | |
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, | |
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. | 5 |
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes | |
A pair of star-crossd lovers take their life; | |
Whose misadventurd piteous overthrows | |
Do with their death bury their parents strife. | |
The fearful passage of their death-markd love, | 10 |
And the continuance of their parents rage, | |
Which, but their childrens end, nought could remove, | |
Is now the two hours traffick of our stage; | |
The which if you with patient ears attend, | |
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. [Exit. | 15 | |
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