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Watch: "new" "Romeo and Juliet" movie version. Act. 2 Sn. 3-Sn. 5
 * Romeo goes to Friar Lawrence to get him to agree to marry the young lovers. Friar Lawrence is hesitant at the start, citing Romeo's recent infatuation with Rosaline, but sees the possibility of their marriage ending the feud between the Montague and Capulet families, and finally agrees to marry them.
 * Mercutio and Benvolio wait for Romeo and discuss his "giving them the slip" the night before, and how Tybalt is planning to challenge Romeo because he crashed the party. They discuss how Tybalt is a good fighter and has a temper. They also make fun of him and make quite a few inappropriate jokes.
 * Romeo arrives and Mercutio and Benvolio start to give him a hard time for his behavior the night before. As they are bantering, Nurse arrives to set up wedding details with Romeo. M and B are confused by her arrival and Romeo's secrecy and mock her as they talk. Nurse quizzes Romeo to make sure his intentions with Juliet are pure. He assures her they are, and tells her to tell Juliet to come to confession with Friar Lawrence that afternoon so he can marry them.
 * Nurse returns to the Capulet mansion to Juliet who is eager for news of her love/marriage. Nurse beats around the bush and teases Juliet, but finally tells her the plan.
 * Juliet goes to confession where Friar Lawrence and Romeo are waiting. Friar Lawrence warns the young lovers to "love moderately" as "violent delights have violent ends" but ultimately weds them.

WU: Consider two of Friar Lawrence’s speeches in Act 2: Select one to write about. 1) “These violent delights have violent ends  And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,  Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey  Is loathsome in his own deliciousness  And in the taste confounds the appetite.  Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.  Too sweet arrives as tardy as too slow.”

2) “For naught so vile that on the earth doth live  But to the earth some special good doth give.  Nor aught so good but, strained from that fair use  Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.  Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,  And vice sometime by action dignified.”

What do you make of these ideas? What warnings does the Friar give, and to whom is he directing them? What does he foreshadow in these lines?

Read: Act 3, Scene 1

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