Romeo: My wife, my love, my bride, my sunlit day!
Glad is my joy, that I be joined to you
In eternal blessed union we'll lay
And I shall see my rose like a dove coo.

Juliet: Oh, I too, my beloved truest knight.
We shall share a happy bed till the light.
O Romeo, what dost thou think thy parents will say of our marriage?

Romeo: They will be happy to have you join our proud family. What dost thou think thy parents will say?

Juliet: I do not know, but I do not think it bodes well, since they wished me betrothed to Paris.

Romeo: And they shall be disappointed.

Juliet: And the rest of my kinsmen will be enraged.

Romeo: Do not worry, the friar will set it all to rights.

Friar: I see thy parents coming. Hie thee hence to my cell until I come. I shall conceal myself with thee till thy parents have arrived.(Exeunt)

Capulet: Why doth the friar summon us today?

Lady Capulet: I do not know. Though he hath been a comfort to our child, and perhaps she hath found love for Paris, and hath told the friar.

Capulet: Nothing would gladden me more to hear this news.

Montague: What! Capulet, why art thou here?

Capulet: I could ask thee the same question.

Montague: The friar hath brought us here for a reason, though what that reason is I know not of.

Capulet: What his reason is, it cannot be good, to bring us into company with thee.

Montague: Why, you--

Friar: Good men and ladies, I thank thee for coming here today.

Lady Montague: Why have you brought us to thy cell?

Friar: Thy son, Montague, and thy daughter, Capulet, hath been married by me an hour past.

Capulet: What! How canst that be? She is but a maid
And hath been sheltered from the villain Montague.

Montague: Not sheltered enough, or else this would not be.

Capulet. My daughter is as chaste as a lily-flower.

Montague: But not for long.

Friar: Peace! Peace!

Lady Capulet: I thought she did love the County. We hath promised her to that worthy.

Montague: That plan hath gone by the door. And now she is a Montague.

Capulet: That thought does make me sick at heart, to lose my only child to such a family as this!

Lady Montague: I am not so distressed to find Juliet one of us. Her change to a Montague shall remedy any Capulet faults she once had.

Montague: Though I wonder if she shall be the viper that we bring into our bosoms.

Capulet: Oh, how I wish she was a viper, so
She could creep into thy bed late at night
And bite thee in the heart so thee will die'st slow!

Friar: Peace! Stop this brawling!
I see my hopes of reconciling thee will come to no good. If thee had, I would have brought your children to thee. But I shall not now. Thee should get to church and ask for forgiveness, not for war! Get thee gone from here, my patience is at an end. (Exit Capulet, Lady Capulet, Montague, Lady Montague.)

Friar: And now to break the unhappy news. In truth, I know not what to do now. It seems to me that nothing shall end the feud save blood.

Friar: My lady--

Lady Montague: Tell Romeo that my lord will arrange a room for him and his wife in our home.

Friar: I will. (Exit Lady Montague.)

Romeo: How didst it go, friar?

Friar: Alas, not well at all. Thy parents didst quarrel relentlessly, and I bade them depart. Though nothing hath offered thee shelter under thy father's roof.

Romeo: Well, that's some news.

Juliet: And what of my father?

Friar: Me thinkest thou shouldst avoid thy father,
For he is in a rage, and may lash out at thee.

Romeo: As well as could be expected, I suppose. Come, Juliet, to my father's house. Father, I bid thee adieu. (Exit Romeo and Juliet.)

Friar: I pity Juliet as she doth go
To the Montagues, who may make her low. (Exeunt.)