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PROLOGUE |
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Enter CHORUS |
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CHORUS |
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Two equally respected families, |
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living in lovely Verona, where
our play is set, |
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break out in renewed violence
due to an old grudge. |
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The townspeople soil their hands
with each other's blood. |
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The son of one enemy and the
daughter of the other, |
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victims of unfavorable fate,
commit suicide. |
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Their unfortunate, pitiful deaths |
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bury their parents' quarrel. |
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This sad story of their ill-fated
love, |
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and of their parents' continuing
anger, |
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which nothing except their children's
deaths could end, |
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you will see acted in the next
two hours on our stage. |
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If you will listen patiently, |
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our play will fill in what is
missing from the prologue. |
