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| 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 fatal loins of these two foes | 5 | ||
| 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, | |||
| And the continuance of their parents' rage, | 10 | ||
| 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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