midnight
_ After the banishment of Romeo , old Capulet and his wife insisted that Juliet marry young Paris , a kinsman of Prince Escalus , and sorrows unnumbered crowded on the new-made secret bride . To escape marriage with Paris , Juliet consulted Friar Laurence , who gives her a drug to be taken the night before the prearranged marriage , that will dull all life and the body remain as dead for forty-two hours . This scheme of the Friar works out favorably until Juliet is laid away with her ancestors in the grand tomb of the Capulets . But Romeo hears of the whole trouble and hurries back from banishment , dashing his way through all impediments until he kills Paris , grieving at midnight by the grave of Juliet . Then , tearing his way into the tomb of Juliet throws himself upon the gorgeous bier and exclaims : _ `` Oh , my love ! my wife ! Death that hath sucked the honey of thy breath , Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty ; Thou art not conquered ; beauty 's ensign yet Is crimson on thy lips , and in thy cheeks , And death 's pale flag is not advanced there ; Tybalt , liest thou there in thy bloody sheet ?