Act IV, Scene I and II: North Ireland/ Ireland
Act 4, Scene 1
Enter Friar Lawrence and Paris.
Friar Lawrence: On Thursday,sir? That is too soon.
Paris: That is how my future father-in-law Capulet wants it, and I am not going to complain.
Friar Lawrence: You say you don’t know what Juliet thinks. That’s not right, I don’t like that.
Paris: She’s weeping too much over the death of Tybalt. So I haven’t had time to talk to her about love. Romantic love doesn’t happen when we are weeping. Her father thinks it’s bad for her to be so sad. He is being smart of rushing our marriage so she stops crying. She is too lonely. If she had someone to be, she would stop crying. Now you know why the marriage is rushed.
Friar Lawrence: (to himself) I wish I didn’t know the reason because I think the marriage should be slowed down. Look here comes Juliet.
Paris: I am happy to see you my lady and wife.
Juliet: That might be true but after I'm married.
Paris: That will be on Thursday my love.
Juliet: What will be will be.
Friar Lawrence: That is true.
Paris: Are you here to make confession to the father?
Juliet: If answered this question I would be making confession to you.
Paris: Don’t refuse you love me.
Juliet: I’ll confess to you that I love him.
Paris: I am sure that you love me.
Juliet: If I do it would mean more if I said it behind your back then saying it to your face.
Paris: You poor feek, you have suffered many tears.
Juliet: The tears haven’t made me look bad I already looked bad before I cried.
Paris: You are treating your face even worse by saying that.
Juliet: What I am saying is not bad it’s the truth and I am saying it to my face.
Paris: Your face is mine and now you have slandered it.
Juliet: That is probably so because my face doesn’t belong to me.—Do you have time for me now Father or should I come later?
Friar Lawrence: I have time now my sad daughter. (to Paris) May I ask you to leave us alone please?
Paris: Juliet, I will wake you on Thursday morning. (kissing her) Until then, goodbye and keep this holy kiss.
Juliet: Oh bloody hell, close the door and after you close come here and weep with me. This mess is beyond everything, beyond hope, beyond cure, beyond help!
Friar Lawrence: Oh Juliet I already know about your brutal situation. It’s a problem to difficult for me to solve. I heard that you must marry this boyo by Thursday, and that nothing can stop it.
Juliet: Don’t tell me you have heard about this marriage, Father, unless you can tell me how to stop it. If you who are wise can’t help me then please be wise enough to say my solution is wise. (she shows him a knife) And I’ll show you my solution now, with this knife. God joined my heart to Romeo’s. You joined our hands. And before I, who was married with Romeo by you, can marry another man I will kill myself. You are wise please give me advice for this current problem. Or just wait and I will act like a judge with my bloody knife. I will truly and honorably solve this problem that you can’t fix. I want to die if you say there aren’t any solutions to this situation.
Friar Lawrence: Hold on daughter I see some hope but we must act quick. If you have really made up your mind of killing yourself instead of marrying the boyo Paris then you will probably want to try something like death. You can fight with death to escape from shame and if you dare to do it I have the solution.
Juliet: Oh you can do anything to me. You can tell me to jump off a cliff, tell me to sit in a field filled with poisonous snakes. Chain me up with wild bears. Hide me every night in a place full of dead bodies with wet, smelly flesh and skulls without jawbones. Or tell me to climb down into a freshly dug grave, and hide me with a dead man in his tomb. All those ideas make me tremor when I hear them named. Either way I will do them with no fear in order to be a pure wife to my only sweet love.
Friar Lawrence: Hold on,then. Go home be more happy than ever and tell them you agree to marry Paris. Tomorrow is Wednesday so tomorrow night make sure you are alone. Don’t let the Nurse stay with you. (showing her a vial) When you are in bed take this vial mix this with liquor and drink it. Then this drug will make you fell sleeping and your pulse will stop. You will be cold and you will stop breathing. You will look very pale and your eyes will shut. You will seem dead, you won’t be able to move and your body will be so stiff like a corpse. You will seem dead for forty-two hours and then you will wake up as if from a dream. When Paris comes to get you he will think you are dead. Then as tradition you will be dressed up in your best clothes, put into a coffin, and carried to the Capulet family tomb. Meanwhile, I will send Romeo a letter of our plan. He will come here and we will watch you wake up, that night Romeo will take you to Mantua. This plan will free you from this horrible situation that has troubled you, as long as you don’t change your mind or get scared like an eejit.
Juliet: Give me the vail. Give it to me! Don’t talk to me about fear. I am not scared.
Friar Lawrence: (giving her the vial) Now go along be strong and successful in this decision. I will quickly send a Friar to Mantua with my letter to Romeo.
Juliet: Love will give me strength and strength will help me accomplish this plan. Goodbye,dear Father.
Act 4, Scene 2
Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, Nurse, and two or three Servingmen.
Capulet:(Gives paper to First Servingmen) Go invite all the guest on this list
FIRST SERVINGMEN EXITS.
(to Second Servingmen)and you go hire twenty fierce cooks.
Second Servingmen: You won’t get any brutal cooks from me. I will test each one of them by making them lick their fingers.
Capulet: How can you do that?
Second Servingmen: It’s easy, sir. A brutal cook can’t lick their own fingers. So if a cook can’t lick their fingers they won’t get hired.
Capulet: You are such a moran, feck off.
SECOND SERVINGMEN EXITS.
We are not ready for this wedding(to the Nurse)Has my daughter gone to see Friar Lawrence?
Nurse:Yes, that is true.
Capulet: Well there is a possibility he may do her some good. She’s a stubborn little brat.
Nurse: Look, she just got home from confession and she looks happy.
Capulet: So, my daughter, where were you?
Juliet: I was somewhere where I learned that disobeying my father is a sin. Holy Father Lawrence has instructed me to apologize and beg for you to forgive me. (Juliet kneels down)Please forgive me oul fella, I beg you. From now on I will do whatever you say.
Capulet: Go for the friar and tell him all about this. I will make this wedding happen tomorrow morning.
Juliet: I saw Paris at Friar Lawrence’s cell. I treated him the best I could, with the proper love while still being modest.
Capulet: Fair play! Now stand up.
JULIET STANDS UP.
This is how it has to be. I want to see the friar. Bring him here, tell him I want him. Now, before God, we all owe this frair a great debt.
Juliet: Nurse, can you help me pick out everything I need to wear for tomorrow?
Lady Capulet: No, there’s plenty of time. We have until Thursday.
Capulet: Go Nurse, go with her. We are going to have the wedding at the church tomorrow.
JULIET AND NURSE EXIT.
Lady Capulet: We don’t have enough supplies for the party and it’s almost night.
Capulet: Don’t worry I have everything under control. Everything is going to be alright, I promise you,wife. You should go with Juliet and help her out. I am not going to bed tonight. Leave me alone. I’ll be the housewife tonight.
LADY CAPULET EXITS.
What happened? They are all gone. I guess I will walk by myself to Friar Lawrence to get him ready for tomorrow. I am so happy because my daughter has finally decided to marry Paris.
CAPULET EXITS.
Enter Friar Lawrence and Paris.
Friar Lawrence: On Thursday,sir? That is too soon.
Paris: That is how my future father-in-law Capulet wants it, and I am not going to complain.
Friar Lawrence: You say you don’t know what Juliet thinks. That’s not right, I don’t like that.
Paris: She’s weeping too much over the death of Tybalt. So I haven’t had time to talk to her about love. Romantic love doesn’t happen when we are weeping. Her father thinks it’s bad for her to be so sad. He is being smart of rushing our marriage so she stops crying. She is too lonely. If she had someone to be, she would stop crying. Now you know why the marriage is rushed.
Friar Lawrence: (to himself) I wish I didn’t know the reason because I think the marriage should be slowed down. Look here comes Juliet.
Paris: I am happy to see you my lady and wife.
Juliet: That might be true but after I'm married.
Paris: That will be on Thursday my love.
Juliet: What will be will be.
Friar Lawrence: That is true.
Paris: Are you here to make confession to the father?
Juliet: If answered this question I would be making confession to you.
Paris: Don’t refuse you love me.
Juliet: I’ll confess to you that I love him.
Paris: I am sure that you love me.
Juliet: If I do it would mean more if I said it behind your back then saying it to your face.
Paris: You poor feek, you have suffered many tears.
Juliet: The tears haven’t made me look bad I already looked bad before I cried.
Paris: You are treating your face even worse by saying that.
Juliet: What I am saying is not bad it’s the truth and I am saying it to my face.
Paris: Your face is mine and now you have slandered it.
Juliet: That is probably so because my face doesn’t belong to me.—Do you have time for me now Father or should I come later?
Friar Lawrence: I have time now my sad daughter. (to Paris) May I ask you to leave us alone please?
Paris: Juliet, I will wake you on Thursday morning. (kissing her) Until then, goodbye and keep this holy kiss.
Juliet: Oh bloody hell, close the door and after you close come here and weep with me. This mess is beyond everything, beyond hope, beyond cure, beyond help!
Friar Lawrence: Oh Juliet I already know about your brutal situation. It’s a problem to difficult for me to solve. I heard that you must marry this boyo by Thursday, and that nothing can stop it.
Juliet: Don’t tell me you have heard about this marriage, Father, unless you can tell me how to stop it. If you who are wise can’t help me then please be wise enough to say my solution is wise. (she shows him a knife) And I’ll show you my solution now, with this knife. God joined my heart to Romeo’s. You joined our hands. And before I, who was married with Romeo by you, can marry another man I will kill myself. You are wise please give me advice for this current problem. Or just wait and I will act like a judge with my bloody knife. I will truly and honorably solve this problem that you can’t fix. I want to die if you say there aren’t any solutions to this situation.
Friar Lawrence: Hold on daughter I see some hope but we must act quick. If you have really made up your mind of killing yourself instead of marrying the boyo Paris then you will probably want to try something like death. You can fight with death to escape from shame and if you dare to do it I have the solution.
Juliet: Oh you can do anything to me. You can tell me to jump off a cliff, tell me to sit in a field filled with poisonous snakes. Chain me up with wild bears. Hide me every night in a place full of dead bodies with wet, smelly flesh and skulls without jawbones. Or tell me to climb down into a freshly dug grave, and hide me with a dead man in his tomb. All those ideas make me tremor when I hear them named. Either way I will do them with no fear in order to be a pure wife to my only sweet love.
Friar Lawrence: Hold on,then. Go home be more happy than ever and tell them you agree to marry Paris. Tomorrow is Wednesday so tomorrow night make sure you are alone. Don’t let the Nurse stay with you. (showing her a vial) When you are in bed take this vial mix this with liquor and drink it. Then this drug will make you fell sleeping and your pulse will stop. You will be cold and you will stop breathing. You will look very pale and your eyes will shut. You will seem dead, you won’t be able to move and your body will be so stiff like a corpse. You will seem dead for forty-two hours and then you will wake up as if from a dream. When Paris comes to get you he will think you are dead. Then as tradition you will be dressed up in your best clothes, put into a coffin, and carried to the Capulet family tomb. Meanwhile, I will send Romeo a letter of our plan. He will come here and we will watch you wake up, that night Romeo will take you to Mantua. This plan will free you from this horrible situation that has troubled you, as long as you don’t change your mind or get scared like an eejit.
Juliet: Give me the vail. Give it to me! Don’t talk to me about fear. I am not scared.
Friar Lawrence: (giving her the vial) Now go along be strong and successful in this decision. I will quickly send a Friar to Mantua with my letter to Romeo.
Juliet: Love will give me strength and strength will help me accomplish this plan. Goodbye,dear Father.
Act 4, Scene 2
Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, Nurse, and two or three Servingmen.
Capulet:(Gives paper to First Servingmen) Go invite all the guest on this list
FIRST SERVINGMEN EXITS.
(to Second Servingmen)and you go hire twenty fierce cooks.
Second Servingmen: You won’t get any brutal cooks from me. I will test each one of them by making them lick their fingers.
Capulet: How can you do that?
Second Servingmen: It’s easy, sir. A brutal cook can’t lick their own fingers. So if a cook can’t lick their fingers they won’t get hired.
Capulet: You are such a moran, feck off.
SECOND SERVINGMEN EXITS.
We are not ready for this wedding(to the Nurse)Has my daughter gone to see Friar Lawrence?
Nurse:Yes, that is true.
Capulet: Well there is a possibility he may do her some good. She’s a stubborn little brat.
Nurse: Look, she just got home from confession and she looks happy.
Capulet: So, my daughter, where were you?
Juliet: I was somewhere where I learned that disobeying my father is a sin. Holy Father Lawrence has instructed me to apologize and beg for you to forgive me. (Juliet kneels down)Please forgive me oul fella, I beg you. From now on I will do whatever you say.
Capulet: Go for the friar and tell him all about this. I will make this wedding happen tomorrow morning.
Juliet: I saw Paris at Friar Lawrence’s cell. I treated him the best I could, with the proper love while still being modest.
Capulet: Fair play! Now stand up.
JULIET STANDS UP.
This is how it has to be. I want to see the friar. Bring him here, tell him I want him. Now, before God, we all owe this frair a great debt.
Juliet: Nurse, can you help me pick out everything I need to wear for tomorrow?
Lady Capulet: No, there’s plenty of time. We have until Thursday.
Capulet: Go Nurse, go with her. We are going to have the wedding at the church tomorrow.
JULIET AND NURSE EXIT.
Lady Capulet: We don’t have enough supplies for the party and it’s almost night.
Capulet: Don’t worry I have everything under control. Everything is going to be alright, I promise you,wife. You should go with Juliet and help her out. I am not going to bed tonight. Leave me alone. I’ll be the housewife tonight.
LADY CAPULET EXITS.
What happened? They are all gone. I guess I will walk by myself to Friar Lawrence to get him ready for tomorrow. I am so happy because my daughter has finally decided to marry Paris.
CAPULET EXITS.