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