世代恩怨的兩個大戶人家

Romeo and Juliet(羅密歐與茱麗葉)
The Prologue (開場白)

 

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene.
From ancient grudge breaks to new munity,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-marked love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which but their children's end nought 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.

.... (兩小時後)

The Epilogue (結束語)
A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardoned, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

 

The End