Another Marriage?

Act 4 Scene 1

Today I was alerted of yet another wedding in Verona. However, this wedding caused me great confusion. The noble and wealthy County Paris entered my cell today to discuss the matter of his wedding to Juliet! How can this be? Juliet is already married! He said that they were to be married on Thursday. Thursday? That is only two days away! Oh, how will I devise a solution by that time? 

In walked Juliet looking quite distraught. She, seeing Paris, soon masked her emotions and politely responded to his quite imposing comments as if he was already her husband. I soon asked if she hath come for shrift. She said yes and Paris took this as his cue to leave. 

Juliet went into another room with such anger and passion I feared she might break something. She soon poured out all of her emotions and feelings to me as if I were an empty glass and she were an over-flowing pitcher. She told me all about how her father was forcing her to marry Paris and that even her faithful Nurse told her that he was better than Romeo. She asked me for advice and I told her that Paris was a good man, but I knew she wouldn't accept this advice. 

I soon came up with another plan in which she would take this potion that I recently concocted and when she drank it that night, she would be put into a deep death-like sleep. She immediately agreed to this plan. I of course needed to make sure that she really thought it through before I gave her the potion. We devised a plan that Romeo would come after she had been buried in the family tomb and her would wait for her to wake from her long slumber and then they would run away together in the darkest hour of the night.

I hope she follows through,

Friar Lawrence ✝