THE FAMILY SHAKSPEARE, In Ten Wolumes ; IN WHICH NOTHING IS ADDED TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT; BUT THOSE WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS BE READ ALOUD IN A FAMILY. PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PROLOGUE. Two households, both alike in dignity,, A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; 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 re move, 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. |