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This is the prologue:
Italicized is the actual R+J Prologue.
Normal is my version/translation of the prologue.
Disclaimer: I do not own the beautiful Romeo and Juliet prologue. I do not own R+J. That all belongs to Shakespeare.
R+R please!
Two households, both alike in dignity
Two very stuck-up families
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
Who happen to live in Verona (Italy?)
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
A stupid old fight causes new ones
When civil blood makes civil hands unclean
And these new fights cause problems for everyone
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A child from each of these two enemies
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life
These doomed lovers kill themselves
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Their untimely death overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents strife
Their death brings an end to the fight
The fearful passage of their death-marked love
The fearful passage of their doomed love
And the continuance of their parents' rage
And the ongoing feud
Which, but their children's end, naught could remove
Which, but their deaths, nothing could stop
Is now the two hours traffic of our stage
Is now this fanfic
The which, if you with patient ears attend
If you read on patiently
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend
You'll soon understand what's not explained here.
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Isn't the actual prologue soooo beautiful? (*sighs*) R&R please!