Place: Friar Lawrence’s cell
Time: Wednesday Morning
Characters: Friar John, Friar Lawrence
We learn that is was Friar John who was meant to deliver the message to Romeo and didn’t because of a terrible sickness that made them go into Quarantine. They believe it was a divine intervention. Friar Lawrence prepares to go to Juliet’s tomb
Quote: ” Going to find a barefoot brother out, one of his order, to associate me, here in this city visiting the sick, and finding him, the searchers of the town, suspecting that we both were in a house where the infectious pestilence did reign, seal’d up the doors, and would not let us forth, so that my speed to Mantua there was stay’d.”