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.
From forth the fatalloins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the three hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
【翻译取自朱生豪译本】
【原文取自The Works of Shakespeare Volume III Book IX Romeo and Juliet】