| 1st line | Two households, both alike in dignity, |
| 2nd line | In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, |
| 3rd line | From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, |
| 4th line | Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. |
| 5th line | From forth the fatal loins of these two foes |
| 6th line | A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; |
| 7th line | Whose misadventured piteous overthrows |
| 8th line | Do with their death bury their parents’ strife. |
| 9th line | The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love, |
| 10th line | And the continuance of their parents’ rage, |
| 11th line | Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove, |
| 12th line | Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage; |
| 13th line | The which if you with patient ears attend, |
| 14th line | What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. |
Romeo and Juliet prologue memorization
July 1, 2019