| Line 1 | Two households, both alike in dignity |
| Line 2 | In fair Verona, where we lay our scene |
| Line 3 | From ancient grudge break to new mutiny |
| Line 4 | Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. |
| Line 5 | From forth the fatal loins of these two foes |
| Line 6 | A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, |
| Line 7 | Whose misadventured piteous overthrows |
| Line 8 | Doth with their death bury their parents̓ strife. |
| Line 9 | The fearful passage of their death-marked love |
| Line 10 | And the continuance of their parents̓ rage |
| Line 11 | Which but their children̓s end, naught could remove |
| Line 12 | Is now the two-hours̓traffic of our stage |
| Line 13 | The which if you with patient ears attend, |
| Line 14 | What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. |
First 14 Lines Of Romeo And Juliet
July 16, 2019