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  1. $Unique_ID{SSP02451}
  2. $Title{Romeo And Juliet:  Prologue}
  3. $Author{Shakespeare, William}
  4. $Subject{}
  5. $Log{Dramatis Personae*02450.TXT}
  6.  
  7.                 Portions copyright (c) CMC ReSearch, Inc., 1989
  8.  
  9.                    The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  10.  
  11.                                 ROMEO AND JULIET
  12.  
  13.  
  14.                      PROLOGUE
  15. ................................................................................
  16.  
  17.                      Two households, both alike in dignity,
  18.                         In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
  19.                      From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
  20.                         Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
  21.                      From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
  22.                         A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
  23.                      Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
  24.                         Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
  25.                      The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
  26.                         And the continuance of their parents' rage,          10
  27.                      Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
  28.                         Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
  29.                      The which if you with patient ears attend,
  30.                         What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to
  31.                            mend.
  32.