Original: Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
Modern: Isn’t there any mercy up in heaven,

Original: That sees into the bottom of my grief?
Modern: That can see how deeply I’m suffering?

Original: O, sweet my mother, cast me not away!
Modern: Oh, dear mother, please don’t abandon me!

Original: Delay this marriage for a month, a week;
Modern: Put off this wedding for a month, or even just a week;

Original: Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed
Modern: Or, if you won’t do that, prepare my wedding bed

Original: In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
Modern: In that dark tomb where Tybalt is buried.

Original: O God!.O nurse, how shall this be prevented?
Modern: Oh God! Oh nurse, how can this be stopped?

Original: My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven;
Modern: My husband is here on earth, my sacred promise is in heaven;

Original: How shall that faith return again to earth,
Modern: How can that sacred promise come back to earth,

Original: Unless that husband send it me from heaven
Modern: Unless my husband sends it back to me from heaven

Original: By leaving earth? comfort me, counsel me.
Modern: By dying? Please comfort me, give me advice.

Original: Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems
Modern: Oh no, oh no, that heaven should use tricks

Original: Upon so soft a subject as myself!
Modern: Against someone as innocent and helpless as me!

Original: What say’st thou? hast thou not a word of joy?
Modern: What do you say? Don’t you have any good news?

Original: Some comfort, nurse.
Modern: Give me some comfort, nurse.

In Act III, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, the scene opens at dawn in Juliet’s chamber after Romeo and Juliet have spent their wedding night together. As morning approaches, the lovers debate whether the bird they hear is a nightingale (signaling night continues) or a lark (signaling dawn and Romeo’s required departure). Romeo initially insists it is the lark and he must leave to avoid execution for returning to Verona, but when Juliet argues it is still night, he agrees to stay longer. However, Juliet quickly realizes the danger and urges him to flee. After Romeo’s departure, Lady Capulet enters and finds Juliet weeping, assuming she grieves for her dead cousin Tybalt. Lady Capulet reveals plans to have Romeo poisoned in Mantua and announces that Juliet will marry Paris on Thursday.

When Juliet refuses the marriage to Paris, Capulet enters and flies into a rage upon learning of her defiance. He threatens to disown Juliet if she does not comply, calling her ungrateful and declaring he will drag her to the church himself. The Nurse initially tries to defend Juliet but backs down when Capulet turns his anger toward her. Lady Capulet refuses to intervene and exits with her husband. Left alone with the Nurse, Juliet seeks counsel, but the Nurse advises her to forget Romeo and marry Paris since Romeo is banished and cannot return. Feeling completely betrayed, Juliet dismisses the Nurse and resolves to seek help from Friar Lawrence, deciding she would rather die than marry Paris.

“Romeo and Juliet” tells the story of two young lovers from feuding families in Verona. Romeo Montague attends a Capulet feast in disguise, where he meets and instantly falls in love with Juliet Capulet. They meet secretly that night on her balcony and decide to marry the next day. Friar Lawrence agrees to perform the ceremony, hoping their union might end the family feud.

After the secret wedding, Romeo encounters Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, who challenges him to a duel. When Romeo refuses to fight, his friend Mercutio accepts the challenge and is killed by Tybalt. In revenge, Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished from Verona by Prince Escalus. Meanwhile, Juliet’s parents, unaware of her secret marriage, arrange for her to wed Count Paris.

Desperate to avoid this second marriage, Juliet seeks help from Friar Lawrence, who gives her a potion that will make her appear dead. The plan is for Romeo to return and take her away when she awakens in the Capulet tomb. However, Romeo never receives the friar’s message explaining the scheme. Believing Juliet truly dead, he purchases poison and drinks it beside her tomb.

Juliet awakens to find Romeo’s lifeless body and, in despair, kills herself with his dagger. The tragic deaths of their children finally reconcile the Montague and Capulet families, who vow to end their ancient hatred. Prince Escalus concludes that all are punished by this sorrowful outcome of the families’ bitter feud.