In agrees
to marrydespite the fact that they
are the son and daughter of families who are involved in a
bitter and violent
feud. He hopes that such a union will cause the families to make peace
("rancor to pure love"). He marries them in secret the same day and tells no one.
In
fact, the only individuals privy to the information are the friar and 's
nurse. One quote from
Friar Lawrence which suggests that he has kept the
marriage a secret appears inwhen he is
attempting to convinceto heed 's
declaration that he be banished to Mantua. He claims that once
tempers have
quieted he will announce the marriage and beg forgiveness from the
Prince:
But look thou stay not till the watch
be
set,
For then thou canst not pass to Mantua,
Where
thou shalt live till we can
find a time
To blaze your marriage,
reconcile your friends,
Beg pardon of the
Prince, and call thee
back
With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
Than
thou wentst forth in lamentation.Another
quote
implying his secrecy comes at the beginning of Act IV as he is speaking
to Count . Paris has
come to ask the friar to marry him to Juliet. Of course,
Juliet is already married, by Friar
Lawrence. When Paris asks if the friar
believes the marriage should be delayed, Lawrence, in an
aside (not spoken
directly to Paris but for the audience), "I would I knew not why it
should be
slowed." He is basically saying he wishes he didn't know why the marriage
between
Paris and Juliet cannot occur.
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