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WO housholds, both alike in dignity,
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 star-croft lovers take their life;
Whose mif-adventur'd piteous overthrows

Do, with their death, bury their parents' frife.
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 page :
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here fall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Dramatis

Perfonæ.

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

to the Prince.
Montague, ? Two Lords of antient families, Enemies to
Capulet, s 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 Romeo.
Page to Paris.
Sampson, ?

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

3 Mutfcians.
Samuel Soundboard,
Peter, Servant to the Nurse.
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 Act,

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

ROMEO