20.32[Enter Chorus].Chorus

30.43Two households, both alike in dignity,

40.54(In fair Verona where we lay our scene)

50.65From ancient grudge, break to new mutiny,

60.76Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

70.87From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,

80.98A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,

90.109Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

100.1110Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.

110.1211The fearful passage of their death-marked love

120.1312And the continuance of their parents' rage,

130.1413Which but their children's end nought could remove,

140.1514Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;

150.1615The which if you with patient ears attend,

160.1716What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.[Exit]