ACT 5 SCENE 1. Enter ROMEO ROMEO If I can sense it then there must be happy news! (Enter BALTHASAR) What kind of joyous news do you bring? BALTHASAR I do have news but it is not happy news at all. Poor Juliet is dead. I watched them sobbing while putting her in their tomb. ROMEO (Falling to his knees) No! Please not my Juliet! My poor wife! (weeping) We have scarcely been married a day until I was banished. But now she lays beside a grave Tybalt, her brave cousin whom I had to kill. The mixture of grief between me being exiled and Mercutio and Tybalt fight and death must have gotten to her, for she didn't want to live anymore. (ROMEO wipes his tears and tries to get up but fails. BALTHSAR helps ROMEO to his feet, holding his arm) If she could …show more content…
How are you? Have you given Romeo my letter? FRAIR JOHN Hello Friar Lawrence. I am doing fair; how about you? And no I did not, for I got busy with sick, needy people. FRAIR LAWERENCE Oh dear this can't be good. Hopefully he won't do anything too brash and if he does hopefully it won't be too soon. I will hear your story about the sick later. I have a job to do right now.+ (Exit both) ACT 5 SCENE 3 (Romeo and Balthasar just arrived at the Capulet's tomb with tools and torches) ROMEO Here is where you shall leave me behind (under his breath) forever. BALTHASAR Okay whatever you say, Romeo. (Exit Balthasar) (While using his tools ROMEO begins to break into the Capulet's tomb. He enters the tomb without a hitch. Once he enters the tomb he starts talking to TYBALT's corpse.) ROMEO (to TABALT) You may or may not here me but I have to tell my now dear cousin something. That something is an apology. I am sorry that I have killed you in rage over Mercutio's death. I should not have let my feelings do something so rash. (turning to Juliet's body) now my dear wife has made me a widower. I love you Juliet. With these hands I shall hold onto you for the last time. (He takes JULIET's hand) and with these lips I shall steal our last kiss. (ROMEO kisses JULIET) (He takes out the vial APOTHECARY gave him and raises it) Now to join you in the heavens. (ROMEO drinks the vial and