Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Act 0 - Scene 1
Verona: Mantua.
Chorus : Two households, both alike in dignity,
[p]In fair Verona, where we lay
our scene,
[p]From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
[p]Where civil
blood makes civil hands unclean.
[p]From forth the fatal loins of
these two foes
[p]A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their
life;
[p]Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
[p]Do with their death
bury their parents' strife.
[p]The fearful passage of their
death-mark'd love,
[p]And the continuance of their parents'
rage,
[p]Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
[p]Is
now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
[p]The which if you with
patient ears attend,
[p]What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to
mend.
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