[ACT 4] Romeo and Juliet Quote IDs

“A thing like death to chide away this shame”

Friar is giving Juliet this potion that will make it look like she’s dead for 42 hours

“Take thou this vial, being then in bed”

Friar to Juliet: pun bc friar tells Juliet to take a sleeping potion to fake her death. Vial can also mean “lie” as fake or “lay” in bed

“Henceforward I am ever ruled by you”

Juliet to Capulet saying sorry for not agreeing and I will marry Paris <dramatic irony>

“God knows when we shall meet again” and “what if it be a poison which the friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead”

Juliet doesn’t know if she will wake up after taking the potion

“Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?”

Juliet is worried that the potion might not work and she will be married to Paris the next day

“How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time that Romeo come to redeem me?”

Juliet is wondering if she wakes up without anyone around her

“Romeo, romeo, romeo! Here’s drink. I drink to thee”

Juliet drinks the potion in behalf of Romeo (love)

“Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field”

Capulet is saying that Juliet died too young and was prepared to be a beautiful woman when she grew up up

Simile and metaphor

“Death is my son in law; death is my heir”

Capulet- Juliet was supposed to marry Paris but she married death instead