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Two teenagers from feuding Verona families fall in love at first sight and marry in secret, and the whole city pays for the grudge. The most famous love story ever told is also a story about how fast hate ruins the young.
The first chapter
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 misadventured 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 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.
Source: Standard Ebooks. Published 1597. Author died 1616. Public domain worldwide. Share this book: WhatsApp