A TOMB FOR TWO: Romeo Returns to Verona Believing Juliet Is Truly Dead
The Capulet tomb, where Romeo broke in before dawn. He came believing he had lost everything already.
Defying his banishment on pain of death, Romeo returned to Verona in the night, poison in hand, intending to lie beside Juliet one last time. He was not alone in the tomb for long.
County Paris — Juliet's would-be husband — had come to mourn her privately, and found Romeo breaking into the crypt instead. Paris drew his sword. Romeo, our sources say, begged him to leave. He did not.
With Paris dead at the tomb's entrance, Romeo finally reached Juliet's side. He believed, completely, that she was gone.
"Here's to my love! O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick."
He drank the poison without hesitation, kissed her one final time, and died beside her — moments, our sources confirm, before the potion's forty-two hours were due to end.
Juliet woke to find Friar Laurence at the tomb's entrance, and Romeo already cold beside her. She refused to leave with the Friar. She refused, in fact, to leave at all.
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By morning, both houses stood together in the tomb for the first time in living memory — not for a wedding, as Friar Laurence had once hoped, but for a funeral large enough for both their names. The feud, Verona's Prince declared, ends here. It took everything it had to end it.
