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He says, "I have more care to stay than will to go: / Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so" (3.5.23-24). He says that if Juliet will have it so, it's ok if he is captured and dies he'll say that the gray light they see is moonlight, not sunlight, and that it's not the lark whose song echoes in the sky above their heads. Romeo knows she's indulging in wishful thinking, but he's willing to play along with it. So, by her reasoning, it's still night, and Romeo can stay with her. Juliet's fanciful idea is that the sun is taking special care of Romeo by providing him with a meteor to light his way to Mantua. Meteors were thought to be vapors drawn from the earth and made luminous by the heat of the sun. She says, "It is some meteor that the sun exhal'd, / To be to thee this night a torch-bearer, / And light thee on thy way to Mantua" (3.5.13-15). She does see the light playing in the clouds and mountain mists, but finds another explanation for it. Juliet still doesn't want to believe that the night is over. The day, like a rooster stretching itself up to crow, is perched on the top of the world, ready to announce its jolly ("jocund") arrival, but for Romeo it means death. I must be gone and live, or stay and die" (3.5.9-11). This effect of sad beauty grows in what Romeo says next: "Night's candles "are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Streaks of sunlight are filtering through the slowly parting clouds in the east, but those streaks are "envious" because they announce the end of the happiness that the lovers have had in the night. The word-picture he paints is beautiful, but ominous. He says it was the lark, and adds, "Look, love, what envious streaks / Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east" (3.5.7-8). The song of the lark, herald of the morning, has awakened Romeo and filled him with fear of being caught in Verona, but Juliet tries to reassure him that he has heard only the nightingale that sings every night on a nearby pomegranate tree. Romeo is getting ready to leave and Juliet says, "Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day: / It was the nightingale, and not the lark, / That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear" (3.5.1-3). Romeo and Juliet are together again, and birds are singing, but their night of love is almost over. If he can't help her, she will kill herself. Juliet pretends to accept the Nurse's advice but decides she will go to Friar Laurence for his advice. Juliet asks the Nurse for advice, and she tells Juliet that she ought to marry Paris because Romeo can never come back and Paris is better looking, anyway. Juliet pleads with her mother to intervene, but Lady Capulet refuses. Enraged, Capulet threatens to throw her out of the house if she doesn't change her mind.
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Lady Capulet tells Capulet that Juliet has refused to marry Paris. Lady Capulet replies that Juliet's father is coming, so Juliet ought to tell him she won't marry Paris, if she dares. Lady Capulet then delivers news which she thinks ought to cheer up Juliet - she is to be married to Paris.
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Lady Capulet expresses her hatred of Romeo and Juliet appears to agree with her, though what she really means is that she loves Romeo. Lady Capulet, assuming Juliet is weeping for Tybalt, tells her that she's grieving too much, then decides that Juliet must be weeping because revenge has not been taken upon Romeo.
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Juliet asks if they will ever see each other again Romeo is sure they will, but Juliet is full of foreboding. Romeo kisses Juliet and leaps out the window. The Nurse hurries in with the news that Juliet's mother is coming.
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Romeo offers to stay and die, but Juliet urges him to leave. Just before dawn Romeo is preparing to leave, but Juliet declares that it's still night, so he can stay. Detailed Summary of Act 3, Scene 5 Page Index: