Friar
Lawrence suggests that thatfly to 's
chamber to comfort her before fleeing to Mantua. In
regards to comforting
Juliet, the Friar suggests that Romeo not stay "till the watch be
set" (in
other words, until the night watchman takes his post at the gates of Verona)
because if Romeo leaves before this, he can flee to Mantua. Just a few lines later,
Friar
Lawrence changes his mind and says, "Either be gone before the watch be
set, / Or by the
break of day disguised as hence" (178-179). Friar Lawrence
is obviously making this up as
he goes along, realizing that Romeo can also
disguise himself to flee just fine with the
watchman present.
then suggests that Romeo live in Mantua until four things
happen:
Till we can find a time / To blaze your
marriage,
reconcile your friends, / Beg pardon of , and call thee back / With
twenty hundred thousand
times more joy / Than thou wentst forth in
lamentation. (3.3.160-164)
Hmmmm,
Friar Lawrence has quite a grandiose plan outlined for
Romeo's future,
wouldn't you say? Friar Lawrence seems to be making this a personal goal of
his. Of course, with that grand of a plan, at least part of it must go awry, but I
suppose that
is the stuff that Act IV and V are made
of.
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