Persons Represented. ESCALUS, Prince of Verona. Paris, Kinsman to the Prince. Montague, Head of the Montague House, at variance with Capulet. Capulet, Head of the Capulet House, at variance with Montague. Romeo, Son to Montague. Mercutio, Friend of Romeo. Benvolio, Friend of Romeo. Tybalt, Kinsman to Capulet. An old Man, his Cousin. Friar Lawrence, a Franciscan. Friar John, of the same order. Balthasar, Servant to Romeo. Sampson, Servant to Capulet. Gregory, Servant to Capulet. Abram [Abraham], Servant to Montague. Three Musicians [Musician 1], [Musician 2], [Musician 3]. Peter. Lady Montague, Wife to Montague. Lady Capulet, Wife to Capulet. Juliet, Daughter to Capulet, in love with Romeo. Nurse to Juliet. CHORUS,—Page, Boy to Paris [Page], an Officer, an Apothecary. Citizens of Verona, several Men and Women, relations to both Houses; Maskers, Guards, Watch and other Attendants. [Servant], [Servant 1], [Servant 2], [Citizen], [Watch], [Watch 1], [Watch 2], [Watch 3] The SCENE, in the beginning of the fifth act, is in Mantua; during all the rest of the play, at Verona.

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ROMEO AND JULIET

PROLOGUE.
Two 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 hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
  A pair of star-crost lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows
  Do, 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 childrens' end, nought could remove,
  Is now the two hours' traffick of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend* ^note