is wife insisted that
Juliet marry young Paris, a kinsman of Prince Escalus, and sorrows
unnumbered crowded on the new-made secret bride.

To escape marriage with Paris, Juliet consulted Friar Laurence, who gives
her a drug to be taken the night before the prearranged marriage, that will
dull all life and the body remain as dead for forty-two hours. This scheme
of the Friar works out favorably until Juliet is laid away with her
ancestors in the grand tomb of the Capulets.

But Romeo hears of the whole trouble and hurries back from banishment,
dashing his way through all impediments until he kills Paris, grieving at
midnight by the grave of Juliet.

Then, tearing his way into the tomb of Juliet throws himself upon the
gorgeous bier and exclaims:

_"Oh, 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 on thy lips, and in thy cheeks,
And death's pale flag is not advanced there;
Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
O, what more favor can I do thee,
Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain,
To sunder his that was thine enemy!
Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,
Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe
That unsubstantial death is amorous;
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
For fear of that I will still stay with thee;
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again; here, here will I remain
With worms that are thy chambermaids; O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest;
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh; 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!
Come, bitter conductor, come, unsavory guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now and at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick, weary bark!
Here's to my love!_ (Drinks poison.) _O, true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick; thus with a kiss I die!"_

Friar Laurence and Balthazar with dark lantern, at this moment approach the
tomb to extricate and save Juliet from the sleeping drug. She awakes with
the noise in the tomb and views the deadly situation.

The Friar implores her to come, depart at once, as the night watch
approach. She sa