Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Due Thursday, January 31st - Romeo & Juliet - Act II - Characterization
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Peyton Levental
ReplyDeleteEveryone has their own different personality. Romeo is a big romantic. He loves the idea of love. When he talks to Juliet he speaks words of love, "With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out". Juliet is a young girl who knows what she wants. She also has a very romantic personality especial when she talks to Romeo, "O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully". The nurse has a fun personality. She has a sense of humor and brings comedy to the play. for instance when she says,"Marry, farewell! I pray you, sir, what saucy
merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?" she uses the word "saucy" in a comedic way. Friar Laurence has a more seriousness to him, "And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels". Hes not like the others in the play who have a more relaxed attitude.
Sophia Lakos
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Romeo- In scene 1 Romeo says “The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.” This really shows how head over heels he is for juliet. They have not know each other for a while but Romeo wants to be married. He shows that he is a very commited person and spontaneous. He also is brave for going great lenghths to visit Juliete.
Juliet- “My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.” Juliet is also very in love with Romeo, and mature for her age considering she is younger than him. Since she is younger she is definetly more nervous about them being together but she also is willing to take risks to be with him.
Friar Lawrence- “These violent delights have violent ends” Friar is one of the first to know about what Romeo and Juliet are doing behind everyones backs. He is not encouraging them to do anything but he is not holding them back. He seems to be a mediator towards them since it seems Romeo and Juliet have made up their minds.
Nurse- “These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old. Shame come to Romeo!” The nurse is not too happy when she finds out about Romeo. She believes all men that come from his family are not to be trusted and she has no choice but to end it with him. I think the nurse is more nervous than mad because juliet is going against everything she was tought.
Davis Blanch
ReplyDeleteRomeo:
In act 2 Romeo is determined. If he sees something or someone he likes, he will do anything to be with them. Romeo also can change focus very quickly. He goes from talking about how he misses Rosaline but then he sees Juliet and he can't stop talking about her. One example of this is when Friar Laurance says “Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
Juliet:
“O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully” Juliet is deeply in love with Romeo. She talks to herself on the balcony about how she would love to see Romeo again. As Romeo is listening he responds and scares Juliet. Once they talk for a little while Romeo says that they should get married the next day and Juliet fully agrees.
Nurse:
The nurse in act 2 is disproving but happy. She does not approve of Romeo and Juliet getting married but she is happy that Juliet likes him. When the nurse says “I will tell her, sir, that you do protest, which, as I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.” It shows how much she cares about Juliet that she went to talk with Romeo and she likes that Romeo isn’t acting like some of his friends who were pretty much attacking her.
Friar Laurance:
“Is Rosaline, that didst love so dear, so soon forsaken?” Laurance is surprised that Romeo could get over Rosaline so quickly after complaining about not being with her anymore. Friar Laurance does not completely accept that Romeo found someone that made him forget about Rosaline.
Drew Wachtel
ReplyDeleteRomeo Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,
Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!
Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?
Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.
Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Dost thou not laugh?”
Romeo uses poetry in most of his lines in this play. Romeo is a romantic lover and wants to get married as soon as possible. Romeo is not a big fan of how many fights the two families have gotten into over the years. He also thinks over what he says to people very carefully and are well thought out. Romeo also gets down on himself very easily and can’t get things out of his head and keeps thinking of things until he found Juliet. In this quote you could see that Romeo was thinking about his break up with his ex Rosaline.
Juliet:
“I'll look to like, if looking liking move:
But no more deep will I endart mine eye
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”
In this quote Juliet is telling her mom and the nurse that if she finds a good boy she will marry him but if she doesn’t she is not interested in getting married at this moment. Juliet likes to think things through like during the Balcony scene she tells Romeo that he doesn’t need to swear by anything to prove that he will be a good husband. She also always has a positive attitude to things for example she wasn’t mad that Romeo was her only hate because she loves him. Juliet likes to double check things like she sent the nurse to interview Romeo before they got married just to make sure that she was making the right choice in who she marries.
Nurse:
“Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh,
To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.'
And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow
A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone;
A parlous knock; and it cried bitterly:
'Yea,' quoth my husband,'fall'st upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age;
Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay.' “
I think that the Nurse is over protective of Juliet because she wants her to be safe at all times because she raised her for all these years. I also think that the Nurse could get a little carried away sometimes like when she was telling the embarrassing story of Juliet's childhood. Other than that I think that the Nurse is a really nice person that cares about everyone and she doesn’t care that she has bad pay because all she wants to do is to spend more time with Juliet. As I said before at times she can be overprotective but overall the Nurse is a really kind person.
Friar Lawrence:
“Benedicite!
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?
Young son, it argues a distemper'd head
So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed:
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:
Therefore thy earliness doth me assure
Thou art up-roused by some distemperature;
Or if not so, then here I hit it right,
Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night.”
I think that Friar Lawrence is a great guy that cares about his family's well being and that he will do anything for his family members like when he decided to marry Romeo and Juliet because he thought that it would end the endless fighting between the two. You can’t really blame him for that decision because that's what I would have done but what he didn’t know that it would end the fighting between the two families but it will end up killing Romeo while doing so. Friar Lawrence is kind of a new character in the book at this point so I don’t know much more about him.
Abhi Sharma
ReplyDeleteRomeo the son of Montague and Lady Montague. Romeo is a handsome, intelligent, and romantic lover. When he sees Juliet his voice changes into a poetic tone and starts rhyming, “O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art As glorious to this night, being o’er my head, as is winged messenger of heaven. Unto the white-upturned wond’ring eyes of mortals that fall back to gaze on him When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.”.
Juliet the daughter of Capulet and lady Capulet. Juliet also has a romantic personality even when she talks to Romeo or other people and also has a poetic tone, “ O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be just sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
The Nurse has a very funny personality. She has a sense of humor, “ Marry, farewell! I pray you, sir, what saucy merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?"
Friar Laurence is much more of a serious character and will do anything to protect and help his family. He is not like the other characters that have a funny personality, “Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift.
Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.”
Julia:
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“ My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy”
She is outgoing but not as much as Romeo. She knows that marrying Romeo could end badly but she is blinded by her love for him. Juliet doesn't mind that Romeo is a Montague but she does wish that others would be more open-minded.
Romeo-
“The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
very outgoing and doesn't put a lot of thought into marrying Juliet. I think that Juliet might have been a brief rebound from Rosaline but it was so short-lived that it never ended. Just like Juliet, Romeo is completely blinded by his poorly thought out love for her. Romeo and Juliet are only bonded together because they are at the precise age where they want to defy their authority figures, while also mirroring others maturity.
Friar Lawrence:
Doesn't approve of the marriage between Juliet and Romeo at first because he can’t believe that Romeo has gone from brokenhearted to lovesick in a matter of hours. After some time though, Friar Lawrence sees the benefits to the union of the Capulets and Montagues and agrees to marry them.
Nurse:
“I will keep to myself: but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into a fool’s paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman is young; and, therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing”
The nurse is the closest thing to a maternal figure that Juliet has, that being said, her opinion matters a lot to her and since the nurse supports her, she feels that she can pursue something that is her own instead of living up to the set standards of her house. The nurse impacts Juliets choices and furthermore impacts the fate of her.
ReplyDeleteFrankie Huntress
Romeo: is a very presetant person if he wants somethinghe takes it. He also chages goals a lot he went from rosaline to jueilet in a span of a hour this is charterized when friar lawrence says.“Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
Juliet: juietet is you classic women who is deaply in love and cant help here fellings and is very drematic about it.O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully” she fallows her heart marrying someone the same day she meet them.
The nurse: the nurse is like the real mother of juilete and is happy for juilet when she find she is in love and holds this over that they are there mortale enemy. “I will tell her, sir, that you do protest, which, as I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.”
Friar Laurance:
“Is Rosaline, that didst love so dear, so soon forsaken?” Laurance is shocked that Romeo could get passed his love for Rosaline so quickly after moping around about not being with her anymore. Friar Laurance does not completely belive that Romeo found someone that made him get over Rosaline.
Lucy E. 1/30/19
ReplyDeleteRomeo--
”Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set
On the fair daughter of rich Capulet:
As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine;
And all combined, save what thou must combine
By holy marriage: when and where and how
We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow,
I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray,
That thou consent to marry us to-day.”
Romeo acts like a helpless puppy when around Juliet. While he does go from being heartbroken by Rosaline to being head over heels for Juliet. When he found out she was a capulet, he much like Juliet did not care about the name. He is a free spirit and only looks at what is right in front of him, such as Juliet.
Juliet--
”So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee”
Juliet is wishful and exotic towards Romeo. She knows and understands her feelings for him and feels that even if his name wasn’t Montague she would still love him. Her father and mother are pushing another guy on her and she is looking to marry for love, something she finds in Romeo. She thinks he is different from the others because being physically together is not the first thing on his mind. She is outgoing but wants to marry for love therefore not wanting to marry Paris.
Friar Laurence--
“Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
He helps the two get married because he thinks it will lead to the family rivalries resolved. He sees how fast Romeo has jumped into the thought of him and Juliet, he sees how quickly Romeo falls for another and feels it won’t last. He thinks that the two star-crossed lovers ‘emotions’ are strong enough to change the family dynamics. He is a new character and hard to read from what we have seen so far.
Nurse--
”O, there
is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain
lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as lief
see a toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her
sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer
man; but, I'll warrant you,”
The nurse watches out for Juliet and seems ok with Romeo as long as he treats her right. She takes comfort in the fact that they like each other and Juliet wants to marry for love. She treats and loves Juliet as if she were her own child and understand Juliet's yearning to marry for love, she knows Paris is the sensible choice but she wants Juliet to be happy. She tells Romeo she approves of him because she knows he likes her and she likes him and she only has Juliet's best interest at heart.
Jayden Cho
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Romeo: “With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No; I have forgot that name, and that name's woe.” (Act 2, Scene 3)
Throughout the entirety of the tragedy so far, Romeo has been a character who seems to change interests very quickly, and acts too bold and has a very daunting motive throughout the play. In the very first scenes, he is shown moping and pouring all of his emotions out from being rejected from his “only love”, Rosaline who has been practicing chastity. However, maybe a couple hours/days later he is seen once again strongly lovestruck to Juliet, and even says he has never known love until he met Juliet. The quotation I chose above would most likely be used as the comic relief in this tragedy, and would definitely show many of Romeo’s personalities. This quotation in particular reminded me of a scene in the movie “The Lord of the Rings”, where we can see the protagonist Frodo Baggins constantly changing emotions completely due to the ring.
Juliet: “'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name…” (Act 2, scene 2)
Unlike Romeo, Juliet seems to have a quite different personality than him. Juliet doesn’t seem to be as bashful as Romeo, and tries to see both sides of a story in a cautious manner. After learning Romeo’s name, she wishes that names would not matter, and also for Romeo to have a different name. What is ironic is that her true love is a sworn enemy in the opposing family, and would add comic relief throughout. Juliet also tries to utilize imagery by saying different types of a man, and compares this with how a single name could be worse for her family. The fact that she is thinking to much about Romeo’s name can be compared to Romeo, who has not even thought about future consequences, but has been more “googly eyed” this whole time after meeting Juliet.
Friar Laurence: “Thy love did read by rote and could not spell. But come, young waverer, come, go with me, In one respect I'll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households' rancour to pure love.” (Act 2, Scene 3)
Although just recently introduced in the 3rd scene of Act 2, we can see that Friar Laurence is generally a very wise guy, and cares a lot for other families and relationships. We can even see this when Romeo seems to be very comfortable talking about relationships with the Friar, including his love for Rosaline. Friar Laurence also seems to act as some sort of local doctor/herbalist, since in the movie he is seen looking for different types of healing/poisonous roots. When the Friar says that maybe the marriage could bring joy and unite the families, we already know from the prologue that this would actually result in the opposite effect which the audience would also know as well. I like how Shakespeare makes very subtle but detailed little passages in many characters lines that contrast with the prologue, to even more emphasize/dramatize the effect of what will actually happen.
Nurse: “I will keep to myself: but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into a fool’s paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman is young; and, therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing” (Act 1, Scene 4)
The nurse is also a very important character in these few scenes, because she is one of the few people that know of the wedding. The Nurse acts like a total mom to Juliet, and can be easily mistaken as her mother if we didn’t know that she raised Juliet since a baby. Juliet seems to prefer her Nurse even more to her mother, and unlike Lady Capulet the Nurse is fine with Juliet loving Romeo. She acts as a messenger in many of the scenes, and decides many choices for Juliet.
Evan Brenner
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I would characterize Romeo as inpatient and immature. Romeo is not very good at thinking before he says something. “With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no; I have forgot that name, and that name's woe.” Romeo had fallen in love so fast with Juliet that he forgot all about Rosaline.
Juliet
I would characterize Juliet as brave and courageous. Even though her loving Romeo could mean a war between the Capulets and Montagues it isn’t really affecting her. "If that thy bent of love be honourable, / Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow.” This shows that she is being brave. She is a bit more calm about the situation than Romeo.
Friar Laurence
I would characterize Friar Lawrence as wise and responsible. “For this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households’ rancor to pure love.” Friar Lawrence is saying that if she helps out with the marriage it could help simmer down the feud a little. He wants the feud to end for them to simply be happy.
Nurse
I would characterize the Nurse as supporting and helpful. Good heart, and i' faith, I will tell her as much. Lord, Lord, she will be a joyful woman.” She accepts the fact the Romeo and Juliet are in love with each other right from the beginning. She wants Juliet to be happy no matter what happens.
Lucas Kaufman (Part I)
ReplyDeletePart I- Romeo
ROMEO. He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
[JULIET appears above at a window]
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!
By the time Act II begins, Romeo has completely fallen for Juliet, not caring in the slightest that she is a Capulet and he is a Montague. By the time my selected passage is spoken, he has snuck onto the Capulet estate hoping to see Juliet again, and spots her on a balcony, immediately starting to fantasize about her immeasurable beauty and how he longs to be up there with her. From this passage, I can characterize Romeo as a lovebird, as his description of Juliet poetically compares her to heavenly bodies like the sun and stars
commonly thought of as perfect, but also rash and headstrong, as he tends to rush into things (e.g. his relationship with Juliet), and is in this way similar to Tybalt.
Part II- Juliet
JULIET. Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this contract to-night:
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night!
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest
Come to thy heart as that within my breast!
When it comes to Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is certainly the more likely of the two to take the time to think her actions through. As the ever-famous balcony scene continues, Romeo reveals his presence to Juliet and the two begin to talk about their family names, and Romeo dismisses his as inferior to his love. He then begins to swear his love for Juliet by the moon, which she rejects as the moon is ever-changing and tells Romeo to swear by himself only. This passage, although short, I believe does a good job in revealing the personality of Juliet as someone who takes their time and is very careful, at least in comparison to the rashness of Romeo.
Lucas Kaufman (Part II)
ReplyDeletePart III- Friar Laurence
FRIAR LAURENCE. Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!
Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,
So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine
Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!
How much salt water thrown away in waste,
To season love, that of it doth not taste!
The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,
Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears;
Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit
Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet:
If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,
Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline:
And art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then,
Women may fall, when there's no strength in men.
Act II, Scene 3 of “Romeo and Juliet” marks the debut of Friar Laurence, who is to Romeo as the Nurse is to Juliet. Romeo, on his way back from the balcony meeting with Juliet, stumbles upon Friar Laurence collecting herbs, and after a short conversation Romeo reveals to the friar his feelings for Juliet. My chosen passage is Friar Laurence’s response to this, or rather, his response to Romeo having lost all interest in Rosaline so suddenly and completely. According to this passage and others throughout the scene, I would characterize Friar Laurence as very observant, as he was able to tell that Romeo had not slept the previous night without a word from him, and possibly a little skeptical or critical of Romeo for being able to move from one girl to the next with little thought or difficulty.
Part IV- Nurse
NURSE. Well, sir; my mistress is the sweetest lady--Lord,
Lord! when 'twas a little prating thing:--O, there
is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain
lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as lief
see a toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her
sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer
man; but, I'll warrant you, when I say so, she looks
as pale as any clout in the versal world. Doth not
rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter?
ROMEO. Ay, nurse; what of that? both with an R.
NURSE. Ah. mocker! that's the dog's name; R is for
the--No; I know it begins with some other
letter:--and she hath the prettiest sententious of
it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good
to hear it.
Act II Scene 4, occurring not long after Romeo’s encounter with Friar Laurence, begins with him meeting Benvolio and Mercutio on the street. After some conversation, the Nurse passes by, looking for Romeo, and is briefly taunted by Mercutio before he and Benvolio exit. After an initial angry reaction to Mercutio’s behavior, Romeo reveals to the Nurse his plans to marry Juliet in secret that afternoon in Friar Laurence’s cell, and asks her to inform Juliet. The Nurse agrees, and in the passage above tells Romeo of Count Paris’ request for Juliet’s hand and Juliet’s persistence in denying. In the same passage, the Nurse tries to recount a saying Juliet made up regarding Romeo’s name and the herb rosemary, but fails to remember it. This shows the Nurse to be a rather forgetful woman, but also one who cares deeply for Juliet and her happiness, even if Juliet’s wishes clash with her parents’.
Rene Roustand
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1. Romeo: I characterize Romeo as a young lover who wants to find his future wife. One quote that supports my opinion is, "Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear, That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops."
2. Juliet: I characterize Juliet as a non-lover, who doesn't want to marry. When she runs into Romeo, she thought he was the handsomest person in the world and wanted to marry him. One quote that supports my opinion is, "Sweet, so would I."
3. Friar Laurence: Friar Lawrence is like a fatherly figure to Romeo. Whe Romeo tells him abot Juliet, he told him that it's a bad idea to marry her. One quote that supports my opinion is, "Holy Saint Francais! What a change is here!" and, "So soon forsaken? Young men's love their lies, Not truly in her hearts, but in their eyes."
4. Nurse: The nurse acts like a motherly figure to Juliet. One quote that supports my opinion is when she was calling Juliet from inside.
Mitch Keamy
ReplyDeleteRomeo: I would characterize romeo as passionate and romantic. He was very smooth when he first spoke with Juliet. He is also very in love with Juliet and wants to marry her. “The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.”
Juliet: As Romeo is in love with Juliet, Juliet is in love with Romeo. When Juliet is standing on the balcony, she is talking to herself about how deeply in love with Romeo she is. Romeo catches her and has a short conversation followed by a marriage proposal. “O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully.”
Nurse: I think that the Nurse is very close with Juliet. They share a bond that a mother shares with her daughter, because Juliet's mother does not pay her much attention. Unfortunately, the Nurse is a little over protective of Juliet and kind of controlling over what Juliet does. “Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh,To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.' And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone; A parlous knock; and it cried bitterly: 'Yea,' quoth my husband, 'fall'st upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age; Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay.'”
Friar Laurence: Friar Laurence is in disbelief that Romeo is over Rosaline and into Juliet so quickly. Romeo was very depressed that he could not have Rosaline. “Is Rosaline, that didst love so dear, so soon forsaken?”