Act V. Scene 1, Juliette dismisses the Nurse in order to take the
sleeping potion, after the Nurse has advised her to go ahead and
marry Paris. But the girl is overiMjme by fear. The ghost of
Thilxiut appears, rebukes her for secretly wedding his enemy, and
foretells her death, Juliette, calling upon Romeo, drinks ofF the
potion. The next scene corresponds to Shakespeare, iv. S. The

' Cf . note on iii. 3. 71 ff.
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Nurse, attempting' to wake Juliette, finds hei appareotlf dead.
Friends come in and lament her, a physician pronnunces the death
due to melancholy. In Scene 3, I'riar Lourens deliver3 to Ansel-
mus a letter for Rijmeo at Mantua, Romeo, in the following scene,
learning from Pedro of Juliette's death, utters a long lament, and
departs in search of poison, Anselmus announces in a monolt^ue
that through delay he has missed Romea " Then, in the final
scene, we see Romeo in the act of forcing an entrance to Juliette's
tomb, Pedro, meanwhile, airald of seeing spooks, has withdrawn
a little way, in hopes of falling; asleep and of thereby dispelling his
fears. In the tomb Romeo addresses tender words to Juliette.
