| A | B |
| Thursday | This is the day that has been arranged for the wedding as Act IV begins. The Friar thinks this is "very short". |
| Going to shrift | this is what Juliet says she's doing when she comes to see Friar Laurence. It's what she said she was doing the last time. |
| Wednesday | This is the day the wedding is changed to after Juliet teels her father she agrees to marry Paris. It's one day sooner. |
| suicide | This is the thing that Juliet threatens to do before the Friar tells her his "desperate" plan. It's what Romeo almost did. |
| Juliet is dead | this is hte discovery the nursemakes the morning of the wedding. She's the first; the mother and father follow |
| Paris | "Venus smiles not in a house of tears." |
| Friar | "O Juliet, I alraedy know thy grief; it strains me past the compass of my wits. |
| Juliet | "Give me some present counsel; or, behold, 'twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife shall play the umpire..." |
| Friar (a) | "Take thou his vial..." |
| Juliet (a) | "...I have lernt me to repentthe sin of disobedient opposition..." |
| Capulet | "...I will walk myself to County Paris to prepare him up against tomorrow..." |
| Juliet (b) | "Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again!" ; "Romeo, Romeo, I drink to thee." |
| Nurse | "She's dead, deceased; she's dead, alack the day!" |
| Friar (b) | "Come the bride ready to go to the church?" |
| Lady C | "Accursed, unhappy, wretched hateful day!" |
| Paris (a) | "Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain" |
| Capulet (a) | "Despised, distresssed, hated, martyred, killed!" |
| Friar L | "She's not well married that lives married long, but she's best married that dies married young." |
| Lord Cap | "All things that we ordained festival turn from their office to black funeral...our wedding cheer to sad burial feast...." |