Answer:
I would add to the previous two posts that in these lines, the Prince refers not only to the Capulets and Montagues.
Most clearly, the Montague and Capulet families have paid dearly for the feud that had been going on between them for so long.
Even the Prince himself has been punished for not stopping the feud Mercutio is dead and he was related to the Prince.
Step-by-step explanation:
The question above contained incomplete phrases taken from the play written by William Shakespeare, Romeo and J*.
Each sentence was completed according to the original text, thus forming coherent sentences and representing a contextualization of the story, without the normal modification of the narrative, written by the author.