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In the cell, Friar Lawrence speaks with Paris about  Juliet's and Paris' marriage. Paris says that they should marry soon. The friar somehow wishes the marriage  should be delayed.

Juliet asks Friar Lawrence for help, raising a knife and saying that she will kill herself rather than marry Paris. The friar proposes a plan: Juliet must agree to marry Paris; then, on the night before the wedding, she must drink a sleeping potion that will make her appear to be dead ,she will be laid to rest in the Capulet tomb, and the friar will send word to Romeo in Mantua to help him retrieve her when she wakes up. She will then return to Mantua with Romeo, and be free to live with him away from their parents’ hatred. Friar Lawrence gives her the sleeping potion.

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Juliet returns home, where she finds her parents preparing for the wedding. She surprises her parents by cheerfully agreeing to marry Paris. Capulet is so pleased that he insists on moving the marriage up a day, to Wednesday (tomorrow). Capulet heads off to tell Paris the news.

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In her bedchamber, Juliet asks the Nurse to let her spend the night by herself, and repeats the request to Lady Capulet when she arrives. Alone, she wonder in her own thoughts regarding what might happen next.

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Early the next morning, the Capulet house is filled with preparations for the wedding. Capulet sends the Nurse to go wake Juliet. She finds Juliet dead and begins to wail, soon joined by both Lady Capulet and Capulet. Paris arrives with Friar Lawrence and a group of musicians for the wedding. The friar urges them to make ready for her funeral.

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On Wednesday morning, on a street in Mantua, there is a cheerful Romeo. Just then, Balthasar enters, and Romeo greets him happily, saying that Balthasar must have come from Verona with news of Juliet and his father. Balthasar replies that Juliet is no longer alive. Thunderstruck, Romeo cries out “Then I defy you, stars” (5.1.24).

He tells Balthasar to get him pen and paper (with which he writes a letter for Balthasar to give to Montague) and to hire horses, and says that he will return to Verona that night.  Romeo sends his servant on his way. Once Balthasar is gone. He goes to find an apothecary, a seller of drugs. After telling the man in the shop that he looks poor, Romeo offers to pay him well for a vial of poison. Once alone, Romeo declare to himself that he will go to Juliet’s tomb and kill himself.

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At his cell, Friar Lawrence speaks with Friar John, whom he had earlier sent to Mantua with a letter for Romeo. He asks John how Romeo responded to his letter. Friar John replies that he was unable to deliver the letter because he was shut up in a quarantined house due to an outbreak of plague. Friar Lawrence becomes upset, realizing that if Romeo does not know about Juliet’s false death, there will be no one to retrieve her from the tomb when she awakes. Sending for a crowbar, Friar Lawrence declares that he will have to rescue Juliet from the tomb on his own. He sends another letter to Romeo to warn him about what has happened, and plans to keep Juliet in his cell until Romeo arrives.

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In the churchyard that night, Paris enters and begins scattering flowers on Juliet’s grave. The servant warns that someone is approaching. He withdraws into the darkness. Romeo, carrying a crowbar, enters with Balthasar. He tells Balthasar that he has come to open the Capulet tomb in order to take back a valuable ring he had given to Juliet. Then he orders Balthasar to leave, and, in the morning, to deliver to Montague the letter Romeo had given him. Balthasar withdraws, but, mistrusting his master’s intentions, lingers to watch.

From his hiding place, Paris recognizes Romeo as the man who murdered Tybalt, and thus as the man who indirectly murdered Juliet, since it is her grief for her cousin that is supposed to have killed her. As Romeo has been exiled from the city on penalty of death. In a rage, Paris accosts Romeo. Romeo pleads with him to leave, but Paris refuses. They draw their swords and fight. Romeo kills Paris. As he dies, Paris asks to be laid near Juliet in the tomb, and Romeo agrees.

Romeo opens the tomb and finds Juliet's body. Understandably devastated, he sits next to his beloved and drinks the Apothecary's poison, kisses Juliet, and then dies. Meanwhile, Friar Laurence arrives at the Capulet tomb to find Paris's body outside the door.