Prologue to Romeo and juliet?

Question

Could someone give me a translation of each line?

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-crossed lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth 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.

I need to memorize it, but i want to know what each line means.

Answer 1

1) two households, or two famalies who have about the same amount of money and riches (in Romeo and Juliet, It's two high-class famalies)

2) Verona is a place. It's where the story takes place.

3) The households have a grudges (arguments) against each other, and fights are breaking out between them

4) Something about killing making good people murderers i think.

5) From the fights between these two households... (sentence fnished in line 6)

6) ...People in love die (This would be Romeo and Juliet, who die at the end of the story. Gee, I hope I didn't ruin it for you!!)

7) These horrible happenings...

8) ... like the deaths of the two people in love, ends the arguments between these two households.

9) This death...
10) ...And this rage between the households...
11)... which could only end since a child of each of the parents in each of the houses died... (In other words, a child from each of the two households died, and it alone ended the fight. These children are Romeo and Juliet)
12) Is all part of the two hours of drama on the stage. (So the death and the famaly's rage is part of the Romeo and Juliet 2-hour play)
13) If you listen and watch the Romeo And Juliet play...
14) ...something about fixing what you missed.

So that's my perception of line 1-14. It can probebly get more specific than that, but it's a good starter.

Answer 2

We have two families, both are equal in status,
And they are both in Verona,
An old argument will give rise to new fighting,
And normally nice people will do evil things.
The children of these two enemy-families
Who are ill-fated lovers, will commit suicide;
Their unfortunate demise
Will end the feud of their parents.
The story of their love, doomed to end in death,
And the story of their parents' anger,
Which could not end without the death of their children,
Is what you will see in the next two hours on this stage;
If you sit here and listen patiently,
You'll get the story through our hard work.

That's the gist of it, anyway.