SCENE SUMMARY

Act 2, Scene 3

CHARACTERS: Friar Lawrence, Romeo

SETTING: Outside somewhere 

Friar Lawrence is out in the churches garden picking plants and herbs for his medicines, when Romeo comes along, he says that he had been up all night. Friar Lawrence assumes with Rosaline but Romeo explains that he wants to marry Juliet, at the start Friar Lawrence doesn’t think it’s a good idea but in the end, Romeo persuades him that it will help bring the families together so he agreed to help marry them.

QUOTE: ‘The sun not yet thy sighs from the heaven clears’