She will become near-death, her veins will go cold, her heart will stop for 2 days.
Friar Lawrence tells Juliet that the potion will make her appear as if she is dead. Her body will be cold and stiff with no sign of life for 42 hours.
Friar Laurence tells Juliet that she will appear dead for 42 hours after she drinks the potion, and then she will wake up as if from a pleasant sleep.
That she will be in a coma for two days.
Juliet says, "Romeo, I come! This do I drink to thee!" and she drinks Friar Lawrence's potion.
Juliet drinks Friar Lawrence's potion, which she fears may actually be poison, rather than enter into a bigamous marriage with Paris.
Friar Lawrence prepares the potion for Juliet in William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet."
Juliet worries that Friar Lawrence's sleeping potion is actually a poison.
Shakespeare describes her feeling very well just before she drinks it. She tells the nurse goodby and thinks about her life.
A potion cooked up by Friar Lawrence.
Juliet never doubts that Romeo will come for her. She does have doubt about Friar Lawrence and that he might have changed the potion to poison.
The plant root used in Friar Lawrence's sleeping potion is called mandrake root. It is a poisonous plant with a long history in folklore and mythology and is often associated with magical and mystical properties. In Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet," Friar Lawrence uses mandrake root in the potion that puts Juliet into a deep sleep to feign her death.
Romeo and Paris both thought Juliet was dead when she was only asleep from the potion Friar Lawrence gave her.
Juliet asks Friar Lawrence for help in marrying Romeo in secret.