Romeo. Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy Be heap'd like mine and that thy skill be more To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath 1485This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue Unfold the imagined happiness that both Receive in either by this dear encounter
Romeo says that if Juliet is as happy as he is, she should express her feelings and show how joyful their meeting makes them.
Juliet. The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse; 1375In half an hour she promised to return. Perchance she cannot meet him: that's not so. O, she is lame! love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams, Driving back shadows over louring hills: 1380Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. Now is the sun upon the highmost hill Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve Is three long hours, yet she is not come. 1385Had she affections and warm youthful blood, She would be as swift in motion as a ball; My words would bandy her to my sweet love, And his to me: But old folks, many feign as they were dead; 1390Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead. O God, she comes! [Enter Nurse and PETER] O honey nurse, what news? Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away. 1395 Nurse. Peter, stay at the gate
The Nurse asks where she can find Romeo. Romeo jokingly replies that “young Romeo” will be older by the time she finds him and says he is the youngest Romeo, showing his playful and witty humor.
Nurse. By my troth, it is well said; 'for himself to mar,' quoth a'? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I may find the young Romeo? Romeo. I can tell you; but young Romeo will be older when you have found him than he was when you sought him: 1275I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a wors
The Nurse asks where she can find Romeo. Romeo jokingly replies that “young Romeo” will be older by the time she finds him and says he is the youngest Romeo, showing his playful and witty humor.
riar Laurence. The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light, 1060And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels: Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye, The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry, I must up-fill this osier cage of ours 1065With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers. The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb; What is her burying grave that is her womb, And from her womb children of divers kind We sucking on her natural bosom find, 1070Many for many virtues excellent, None but for some and yet all different. O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live 1075But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified. 1080Within the infant rind of this small flower Poison hath residence and medicine power: For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. Two such opposed kings encamp them still 1085In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will; And where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.
Friar Laurence explains that nature has both good and bad qualities. Plants can heal or poison depending on how they are used. He compares this to humans, saying people also have both good and evil inside them.
Juliet. Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be 970Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night! This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest Come to thy heart as that within my breast!
Juliet loves Romeo but thinks their relationship is moving too fast. She wants their love to grow naturally and become stronger over time instead of rushing into promises.
Mercutio. This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle Of some strange nature, letting it there stand Till she had laid it and conjured it down; 825That were some spite: my invocation Is fair and honest, and in his mistress' name I conjure only but to raise up him
Here Mercutio jokes that he is not doing anything mean. He is just calling Romeo out by mentioning his girlfriend so Romeo will appear.