TPTT The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: ACT I
Introduction
ACT I
PROLOGUE
SCENE I. Verona. A public place.
SCENE II. A street.
SCENE III. A room in Capulet's house.
SCENE IV. A street.
SCENE V. A hall in Capulet's house.
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
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PROLOGUE
      Two households, both alike in dignity,
      In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
      From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
      Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
5     From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
      A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
      Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
      Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
      The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
10    And the continuance of their parents' rage,
      Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
      Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
      The which if you with patient ears attend,
      What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
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