First, he says: "I am the greatest, able to do least,
Yet most suspected, as the time and place
Doth make against me of this direful murder;
And here I stand, both to impeach and purge
Myself condemned and myself excused." then he explains to everybody what has happened: "I will be brief, for my short date of breath
Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet;
And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife:
I married them; and their stol'n marriage-day
Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death
Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the city,
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
Betroth'd and would have married her perforce
To County Paris: then comes she to me,
And, with wild looks, bid me devise some mean
To rid her from this second marriage,
Or in my cell there would she kill herself.
Then gave I her, so tutor'd by my art,
A sleeping potion; which so took effect
As I intended, for it wrought on her
The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo,
That he should hither come as this dire night,
To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,
Being the time the potion's force should cease.
But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
Was stay'd by accident, and yesternight
Return'd my letter back. Then all alone
At the prefixed hour of her waking,
Came I to take her from her kindred's vault;
Meaning to keep her closely at my cell,
Till I conveniently could send to Romeo:
But when I came, some minute ere the time
Of her awaking, here untimely lay
The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.
She wakes; and I entreated her come forth,
And bear this work of heaven with patience:
But then a noise did scare me from the tomb;
And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
All this I know; and to the marriage
Her nurse is privy: and, if aught in this
Miscarried by my fault, let my old life
Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,
Unto the rigour of severest law."
Friar Lawrence did not die but he was the person who gave help to Romeo and Juliet.he did watever he could do for those two lovers.but as the prologue says that they were star-crossed lovers, that means that there future was already written, that they are unlucky till death and after death.
"I will be brieft, for my short date of breath
Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet,
And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife.
I married them, and their stol'n marriage day
Was Tybalt's doomsday, whose untimely death
banished the new-mad bridegroom from the city --
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
Bethrothed and would have married her perforce
To County Paris. Then comes she to me,
And with wild looks bid me devise some mean
To rid her from this second marriage,
Or in my cell there would she kill herself.
Then i gave her, so tutored by my art,
A sleeping potion, which so took effect
As I intended, for it wrought on her
The form of death.
Meantime I writ to Romeo,
That he should hither come as this dire night,
To help take her from her borrowed garve,
being the time the potion's force should cease.
But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
Was stayed by accident, and yesternight
Returned my letter back. Then all alone
At the prefixed hour of her waking
Came I to take her from her kindred's vault,
Meaning to keep her closely at my cell
Till I conventiently could send to Romeo,
But when I came, some minute ere the time
Of her awakening, here untimely lay The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.
She wakes, and I entreated her come forth,
Amd bear this work of heaven with patience.
But then a noise did scare me from the tomb,
And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
All this I know, and to the marriage
Her Nurse is privy. And if aught in this
Miscarried by my fault, let my old life
Be sacrificed some hour before his time
Unto the rigor of severest law."
Act V. Scene III. Told after Prince, Capulet, Lady Capulet, and Montague arrive. And Friar Lawrence is found by Watchmen, along with Balthasar (Romeo's man).
Friar Laurence gives him the long story short telling him how he married Romeo and Juliet in secret, and how in order to escape another marriage he helped Juliet by giving her a sleeping potion that puts her in such a deep sleep she appears to be dead, he also tells how Romeo did not get the letter that was supposed to tell him that Juliet's fine. Friar Laurence does admit that despite his knowledge he does not know why Romeo and Paris were dead when he entered the tomb.
Act 1, Scene 5 line 132:
"My grave is like to be my wedding bed"
Her wedding bed actually does end up being her grave.
Thus with a kiss, I die
In the tomb, he confess to the Prince.
Romeo says it to Friar Lawrence on line 110.
When Friar Lawrence suggests this, he believes that a marriage would solve the rivalry between the Montagues and Capulets.
Yes. He thought it would "turn the "households' rancour to pure love" - Act 2, Scene 3, Line 94
Friar : " come, is the bride ready to go to church ?" pg. 109 line 36
If you will turn to the very beginning of Act V Scene I, the answer will be right there in the stage direction before the line "News from Verona."BALTHASAR
Romeo says it to Friar Lawrence on line 110.
When Friar Lawrence suggests this, he believes that a marriage would solve the rivalry between the Montagues and Capulets.
Yes. He thought it would "turn the "households' rancour to pure love" - Act 2, Scene 3, Line 94
Friar : " come, is the bride ready to go to church ?" pg. 109 line 36
If you will turn to the very beginning of Act V Scene I, the answer will be right there in the stage direction before the line "News from Verona."BALTHASAR
"Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
Are you trying to say "Wherefore art thou Romeo?", Juliet's famous line from Romeo and Juliet? It means "Why are you Romeo?"
You know, don't you, that the line numbers start afresh from one in every scene of the play, so "line 157 of Romeo and Juliet" gives very little clue as to what line you are asking about. The nurse only talks with Romeo in two scenes: Act II Scene 4 and Act III Scene 3. According to my copy, Peter says line 157 in 2,4 and Friar Lawrence in 3,3. Did I mention that the line numbers are different in every edition of the play? So your line numbers won't match mine if we don't have the same book. Next time, forget about the line numbers and quote the words you want explained.
The line "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" from Romeo and Juliet is similar to lines in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and "Much Ado About Nothing" that explore themes of identity and societal constraints.
The Prince. "For never was there a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
According to my copy of the play, that line is "I will confess to you that I love him." Paris is trying to get Juliet to say that she loves him. Instead, she says that she loves Friar Lawrence. She's trying to avoid saying that she has feelings for Paris.
Romeo is the first of the two to speak in Rome and Julietby William Shakespeare. Romeo's first line is, "Is the day so young?"