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THE MOST EXCELLENT AND
LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY
OF ROMEO AND JULIET

The Prologue

[Enter Chorus.]

CHORUS. 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.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes 5
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life,
Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love
And the continuance of their parents' rage 10
(Which but their children's end nought could re-
move)

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage,
The which if you with patient ears attend
What here shall miss our toil shall strive to mend.

[Exit.]

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The Prologue N. (N refers throughout to the corresponding note
given at the end of the text.) 1 dignity rank. 3 mutiny strife.
4 civil of citizens. 6 star-cross'd predestined to be thwarted.
9 passage course. 12 two hours N. 14 miss be lacking.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Contributors: Richard Hosley - editor, William Shakespeare - author. Publisher: Yale University Press. Place of Publication: New Haven, CT. Publication Year: 1954. Page Number: 1.
    
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