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-croft lovers take their life;
Whose mif-adventur'd piteous Overthrows
Do, with their death, bury their Parent's ftrife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their Parent's rage,
Which but their children's End nought could remove,
Is now the two hours traffick of our stage:
The which if you with patient Ears attend,
What bere shall miss, our Toil shall strive to mend.

ESCALUS, Prince of Verona.

Paris, Kinsman to the Prince.

Montague, }

Capulet,

Two Lords, Enemies to each other.

Romeo, Son to Montague.

Mercutio, Kinsman to the Prince, and Friend to Romeo,

Benvolio, Kinsman to Romeo.

Tybalt, Kinsman to Capulet.

Friar Lawrence.

Friar John.

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, during all the rest of the Play, in and near Verona,