Relacionar Columnas Prologue Pair-UpVersión en línea Match the lines from the Prologue to Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet with the modern English translation. por Michelle Sueck 1 In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, 2 The fearful passage of their death-marked love, 3 Two households, both alike in dignity, 4 Whose misadventured piteous overthrows 5 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean 6 The which if you with patient ears attend 7 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny 8 Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. 9 What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. 10 And the continuance of their parents’ rage, 11 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes 12 A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; 13 Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove 14 Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage The sad story if their ill-fated love, victims of unfavorable fate, commit suicide. Which nothing except their children’s deaths could end, our play will fill in what is missing from the prologue. the townspeople soil their hands with each other’s blood. you will see acted in the next two hours on our stage. living in lovely Verona, where our play is set, Their unfortunate, pitiful deaths The son of one enemy and the daughter of the other, Break out in renewed violence due to an old grudge. bury their parents’ quarrel. and their parents continuing anger, If you will listen patiently, Two equally respected families,