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WO housholds, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, (where we lay our Scene)
From ancient Grudge break to new mutiny ;

Where civil blood makes civil bands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,

A pair of far-croft lovers take their life;
Wbofe mif-adventur'd piteous overthrows

Do, with their death, bury their parents' Arift.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which but their childrens' end nought could remove,

Is now the two hours' traffick of our stage :
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here fhall miss, our toil shall frive to mend.

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Dramatis Personæ. ESCALUS, Prince of Verona. Paris, a young Nobleman in love with Juliet, and kinsman

to the Prince. Montague, 1 Two Lords of antient families, Enemies to Capulet,

each other.
Romeo, Son to Montague.
Mercutio, Kinsman to the Prince and Friend to Romeo.
Benvolio, Kinsman and Friend to Romeo.
Tybalt, Kinsman to Capulet.
Friar Lawrence.
Friar John.
Balthasar, Servant to Romco.
Page to Paris.
Sampson,

Servants to Capulet.
Gregory,
Abram, Servant 10 Montague.
Apothecary.
Simon Catling,
Hugh Rebeck,

3 Muficians.
Samuel Soundboard,
Peter, Servant to the Nurse.

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Lady Montague, Wife to Montague.
Lady Capulet, Wife to Capulet.
Juliet, Daughter to Capulet, in love with Romeo.
Nurse to Juliet.
CHORUS.

Citizens of Verona, several men and women, relations to

Capulet, Maskers, Guards, Watch, and other Attendants. The SCENE, in the beginning of the fifth Aat,

is in Mantua ; dåring all the rest of the Play, in and near Verona.