Star-Crossed Lovers

Hermione

Story Summary:

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``A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;``Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows``Doth with 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 naught 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.