unix-3225585635046935773.txt (665B)
1 Romeo and Juliet 2 3 ACT I 4 5 PROLOGUE 6 7 Two households, both alike in dignity, 8 In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, 9 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, 10 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. 11 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes 12 A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; 13 Whose misadventured piteous overthrows 14 Do with their death bury their parents' strife. 15 The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, 16 And the continuance of their parents' rage, 17 Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, 18 Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; 19 The which if you with patient ears attend, 20 What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.