Act 3 Scene 3

Question 1

Enter Friar Lawrence

Answer 1

Romeo, come forth. Come forth, thou fearful man. Affliction is enamored of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.

Question 2

Romeo: […] What less than doomsday is the prince’s doom?

Answer 2

A gentler judgement vanished from his lips: not body’s death, but body’s banishment.

Question 3

Romeo: […] Do not say “banishment.”

Answer 3

Hence from Verona art thou banishèd. Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.

Question 4

Romeo: […] Then “banished” is death mistermed. Calling death “banishment.”

Answer 4

O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness! Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law, and turned that black word “death” to “banishment.”
This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.

Question 5

Romeo: […] to mangle me with that word “banished?”

Answer 5

Thou fond mad man, hear me a little speak

Question 6

Romeo: Oh, thou wilt speak again of banishment.

Answer 6

I’ll give thee armor to keep off that word– Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy– To comfort thee though thou art banishèd

Question 7

Romeo: […] It helps not, it prevails not. Talk no more.

Answer 7

Oh, then I see that madmen have no ears.

Question 8

Romeo: How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?

Answer 8

Let me dispute with thee of thy estate

Question 9

Romeo: […] Taking the measure of an unmade grave.
(knocking on door)

Answer 9

Arise. One knocks. Good Romeo, hide thyself.

Question 10

(More knocking II)

Answer 10

Hark how they knock! – Who’s there? – (turns around) Romeo arise. Thou wilt be taken – stay a while, stand up.

Question 11

(More knocking 3)

Answer 11

Run to my study – By and by! – God’s will what simpleness is this! I come, I come!

Question 12

(Final knocking)

Answer 12

Who knocks so hard? Whence come you? What’s your will?

Question 13

Nurse: […] I come from lady Juliet

Answer 13

(opens the door) Welcome then

Question 14

Nurse: […] Where is my lady’s lord? Where’s Romeo?

Answer 14

There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.

Question 15

Romeo: […] Tell me, that I may sack the hateful mansion (draws his dagger)

Answer 15

Hold thy desperate hand (catch his arm) Thou hast amazed me. By my holy order I thought thy disposition better tempered. Hast thou slain Tybalt? Wilt thou slay thyself, and slay thy lady that in thy life lives by doing damnèd hate upon thyself?

Question 16

Monologue cont.

Answer 16

What, rouse thee, man! Thy Juliet is alive, there art thou happy.
Tybalt would kill thee, but thou slew’st Tybalt – there art thou happy.
The law that threatened death becomes thy friend and turns it to exile – there art thou happy. A pack of blessings be upon thy back.

Question 17

Monologue cont. II

Answer 17

But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench, thou pout’st upon thy fortune and thy love. Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.
Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed. Ascend her chamber, hence, and comfort her. But look thou stay not till the watch be set, for then thou canst not pass to Mantua, where thou shalt live, till we can find a time to blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, beg pardon of the prince, an call thee back with twenty hundred thousand times more joy than thou went’st forth in lamentation.
Go before, Nurse. Commend me to thy lady, Romeo is coming.

Question 18

Romeo: How well my comfort is revived by this!

Answer 18

Go hence. Good night. And here stands all your state; Either be gone before the watch be set, or by the break of day disguised from hence. Give me thy hand, ‘Tis late. Farewell, good night.
(wait for black out before exiting)