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THE PROLOGUE
⌜Enter⌝ Chorus.0001 Two households, both alike in dignity
0002 (In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),
0003 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
0004 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
0005 5 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
0006 A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;
0007 Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
0008 Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
0009 The fearful passage of their death-marked love
0010 10 And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
0011 Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,
0012 Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
0013 The which, if you with patient ears attend,
0014 What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
⌜Chorus exits.⌝