Romeo and Juliet Quotes Acts 4-5

Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua's law Is death to any he that utters them.

Apothecary- Admitting he has powerful poison, but that it's illegal to sell it.

Put this in any liquid thing you will And drink it off; and, if you had the strength Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.

Apothecary- Explaining how to take the poison, and how very strong and deadly it is.

My poverty, but not my will, consents.

Apothecary- Succumbs to the temptation of money for the illegal drugs.

I do beseech you, sir, have patience. Your looks are pale and wild, and do import Some misadventure.

Balthasar- Begging Romeo to calm down and not do anything impetuous.

Then she is well, and nothing can be ill. Her body sleeps in Capels' monument, And her immortal part with angels lives. I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault And presently took post to tell it you. O, pardon me for bringing these ill news, Since you did leave it for my office, sir.

Balthasar- Reveals to Romeo the Juliet is dead.

Going to find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me, Here in this city visiting the sick, And finding him, the searchers of the town, Suspecting that we both were in a house Where the infectious pestilence did reign, Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth. So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed.

Friar John- Explaining why he could not get the letter to Romeo.

I could not send it—here it is again— (gives a letter) Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, So fearful were they of infection.

Friar John- Returning the unsent letter to Friar Lawrence.

I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep. A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.

Friar Lawrence- Scared about getting caught, and encourages Juliet to run away with him.

Welcome from Mantua. What says Romeo? Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.

Friar Lawrence- Speaking to Friar John and asking about Romeo.

I'll dispose of thee Among a sisterhood of holy nuns. Stay not to question, for the watch is coming. Come, go, good Juliet. I dare no longer stay.

Friar Lawrence- Telling Juliet that he will hide her in a convent of nuns. He abondons her.

Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution As that is desperate which we would prevent. If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, Then is it likely thou wilt undertake A thing like death to chide away this shame,... An if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.

Friar Lawrence- Telling Juliet that there's no need to commit suicide, for he has a plan.

Hold, then. Go home, be merry. Give consent To marry Paris. .. Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone. Let not the Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. (shows her a vial) Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distillèd liquor drink thou off,... No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest... Each part, deprived of supple government, Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death. And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

Friar Lawrence- Telling Juliet to go home, drink the potion, and what will affect it will have on her.

Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead... In the meantime, against thou shalt awake, Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, And hither shall he come, and he and I Will watch thy waking, and that very night Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua. And this shall free thee from this present shame,

Friar Lawrence- Telling Juliet what he and Romeo will be doing while she is faking her death.

On Thursday, sir? The time is very short... You say you do not know the lady's mind. Uneven is the course. I like it not.

Friar Lawrence- Telling Paris that he doesn't like the idea of rushing into a marriage with Juliet.

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.

Friar Lawrence- Telling the Prince the details of Romeo and Juliet's love affair.

Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, The letter was not nice but full of charge, Of dear import, and the neglecting it May do much danger. Friar John, go hence. Get me an iron crow and bring it straight Unto my cell.

Friar Lawrence- Upset that the letter was not sent, asks for a crowbar so he can break into Juliet's tomb.

Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake. She will beshrew me much that Romeo Hath had no notice of these accidents. But I will write again to Mantua, And keep her at my cell till Romeo come. Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb!

Friar Lawrence-Realizes Juliet will be waking soon and that Romeo has no idea about the plan.

O comfortable Friar! Where is my lord? I do remember well where I should be, And there I am. Where is my Romeo?

Juliet- Awakens and is looking for Romeo, asking Friar Lawrence where he is.

Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.

Juliet- Hearing people approaching, Juliet grabs Romeo's dagger and stabs herself in the heart.

O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower; Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel house, O'ercovered quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud—

Juliet- Juliet telling Friar Lawrence of all the things she would be willing to do to avoid marrying Paris. It's also foreshadowing her death in the tomb.

Farewell!—God knows when we shall meet again.

Juliet- Ominous foreshadowing that Juliet will never see her mother again.

What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.— O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, To make me die with a restorative. Thy lips are warm.

Juliet- Realizes that Romeo has poisoned himself and that she just missed him because his lips are still warm. Tries to get poison off Romeo's lips to kill self.

Tell me not, Friar, that thou hear'st of this, Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it. If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, Do thou but call my resolution wise, And with this knife I'll help it presently. (shows him a knife)... Be not so long to speak. I long to die If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy.

Juliet- Telling Friar Lawrence that if he cannot help her, she will kill herself.

So please you, let me now be left alone, And let the Nurse this night sit up with you. For, I am sure, you have your hands full all In this so sudden business.

Juliet- Telling Lady Capulet to leave her alone, so she can take the potion in secret.

What if it be a poison, which the friar Subtly hath ministered to have me dead, Lest in this marriage he should be dishonored Because he married me before to Romeo?

Juliet- Wondering if Friar Lawrence is trying to poison her because he's ashamed of marrying Romeo and Juliet.

How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time that Romeo Come to redeem me? There's a fearful point. Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?

Juliet- Worried if she wakes up early she will suffocate from the putrid air of rotting bodies.

What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then tomorrow morning? No, no. This shall forbid it. Lie thou there. (lays her knife down)

Juliet- Worried that the potion will not work. Has a dagger with her just in case she wakes up.

Oh, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, Environèd with all these hideous fears, And madly play with my forefather's joints, And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud, And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone, As with a club, dash out my desperate brains? Oh, look! Methinks I see my cousin's ghost Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body Upon a rapier's point. Stay, Tybalt, stay! Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here's drink. I drink to thee.

Juliet- Worries that she will go mad in the tomb and that Tybalts ghost will seek revenge against her and Romeo.

Good night. Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need.

Lady Capulet- Telling Juliet to get to bed because she will be very busy on her wedding day (innuendo).

O brother Montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughter's jointure, for no more Can I demand.

Lord Capulet- Offering peace to Lord Mantague and promises Juliet's money to him.

Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight. Grief of my son's exile hath stopped her breath. What further woe conspires against mine age?

Lord Montague- Informs the Prince that Landy Montague has died from grief over the news of Romeo's banishment.

But I can give thee more, For I will raise her statue in pure gold, That whiles Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set As that of true and faithful Juliet.

Lord Montague- Offers peace to Lord Capulet and promises to build a statue of Juliet.

(falls) Oh, I am slain! If thou be merciful, Open the tomb. Lay me with Juliet.

Paris- Dying request to be laid next to Juliet.

Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,... Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous That she do give her sorrow so much sway, And in his wisdom hastes our marriage To stop the inundation of her tears—... Now do you know the reason of this haste.

Paris- Explaining to Friar Lawrence why Lord Capulet is rushing the marriage to Juliet.

(aside) This is that banished haughty Montague, That murdered my love's cousin, with which grief, It is supposed the fair creature died. And here is come to do some villainous shame To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him. (to ROMEO) Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile Montague!

Paris- Sees Romeo outside Juliet's tomb and assumes that Romeo is there to desecrate the Capulets' tomb and attempts to arrest Romeo.

God shield I should disturb devotion!— Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye. (kisses her) Till then, adieu, and keep this holy kiss.

Paris- Telling Juliet that he will see her on their wedding day, and he kisses her.

Give me thy torch, boy. Hence, and stand aloof... Whistle then to me, As signal that thou hear'st something approach. Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go... The boy gives warning something doth approach. What cursèd foot wanders this way tonight To cross my obsequies and true love's rite?

Paris- Telling his servent to stand as lookout outside Juliet's tomb. He notices someone (Romeo) coming towards Juliet's tomb.

A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd. For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Prince Escalus- Final words of the play (epilogue). Encourages the people and the audience to go and talk about and learn from this tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet.

Where be these enemies?—Capulet! Montague! See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! And I, for winking at your discords, too Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.

Prince Escalus- Scolds the Monatagues and Capulets for their fued whcih has killed their only children and his cousin Mercutio.

.... Here, here will I remain With worms that are thy chamber maids. Oh, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.

Romeo- Accepts that this tomb is where Romeo will be spending eternity.

Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man. Fly hence and leave me... Stay not, be gone. Live, and hereafter say A madman's mercy bid thee run away.

Romeo- Begging Paris to leave him alone so he does not have to kill him.

Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe That unsubstantial death is amorous, And that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour?

Romeo- Beleives that Juliet is so beautiful that death can not conquer her.

Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor. Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker may fall dead,

Romeo- Calling forth the phramacist and asking him for strong poison.

I pay thy poverty and not thy will.

Romeo- Comforts the Apothecary by saying that he is paying to stop his hunger and does not want him to feel guilty.

The world is not thy friend nor the world's law. The world affords no law to make thee rich. Then be not poor, but break it, and take this. (holds out money)

Romeo- Convincing the Apothercary that the world and law does not care about him, so he should not care about the law, and break the law and sell drugs for money.

Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars!

Romeo- Curses the stars and seals his fate/doom. Furious about the news of Juliet's death.

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. I dreamt my lady came and found me dead—... And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.

Romeo- Discussing a dream he had about Juliet waking him from the dead (foreshadowing).

—O my love, my wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquered. Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advancèd there.—

Romeo- Impressed with how beautiful Juliet is despite the fact she is dead.

Eyes, look your last. Arms, take your last embrace. And, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death.

Romeo- Looks at Juliet one last time, hugs and kisses Juliet one last time.

I do remember an apothecary—... ... Meager were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones,... Noting this penury, to myself I said, "An if a man did need a poison now"— Whose sale is present death in Mantua— "Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him."... What, ho! Apothecary!

Romeo- Remembering a poor phramacist that he saw along the way, one that would no doubt be willing to sell illegal poisonous drugs because he is so poor.

Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.

Romeo- Reveals his intention to commit suicide and lie with Juliet.

Tush, thou art deceived. Leave me and do the thing I bid thee do. Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?

Romeo- Scolds Balthasar for tyring to calm him and asks if there is a letter from Friar Lawrence.

Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet? O, what more favor can I do to thee, Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain To sunder his that was thine enemy? Forgive me, cousin.

Romeo- Sees the dead body of Tybalt. Apologizes for killing him and offers his life in return.

O true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.

Romeo- Taking the poison, Romeo relizes how strong the drugs are and gives Juliet a final kiss.

Hold, take this letter. Early in the morning See thou deliver it to my lord and father... Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof, And do not interrupt me in my course... Therefore hence, be gone... By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs. The time and my intents are savage, wild...

Romeo- Telling Balthasar to take a suicide letter to his father and orders him not to try and stop him from doing anything. Threatens him with bodily harm.

News from Verona!—How now, Balthasar? Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar? How doth my lady? Is my father well? How fares my Juliet? That I ask again, For nothing can be ill if she be well.

Romeo- Upon seeing Balthasar, Romeo wants to know what's going on in Verona.