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Romeo and Juliet: Prologue

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


Romeo and Juliet: Act 2, Prologue

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1 Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,
2 And young affection gapes to be his heir;
3 That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,
4 With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair!.
5 Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,
6 Alike betwitchèd by the charm of looks,
7 But to his foe supposed he must complain,
8 And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks:
9 Being held a foe, he may not have access
10 To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear;
11 And she as much in love, her means much less
12 To meet her new-beloved any where:
13 But passion lends them power, time means, to meet
14 Tempering extremities with extreme sweet!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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