I cannot believe what is going on with everyone! Balthasar comes to Romeo in Mantua to give him daily news from Verona. Balthasar comes to tell Romeo of Juliet's death which breaks his heart and ruins him. Romeo cannot believe what he is hearing and he calls out the stars and decides to ride to Verona and see her. He asks for pen and paper to write a letter to the Montagues then asks Balthasar if he had a letter from the friar, but he did not receive any. Balthasar leaves to get horses and Romeo finds an apothecary and asks to buy poison. They talk about how it is illegal to sell drugs in Mantua and how the penalty is death, but Romeo still tries to buy the lethal poison. The poison can kill a man as strong as twenty men immediately. He offers the man forty ducats in exchange for the poison and claims that he had given the man poison, for money is the poison to men's souls. "I sell thee poison. Thou hast sold me none."(5:1:88) Why would Romeo do such a thing? I hope he gets there safely without getting caught by any of the Capulets and he sees Juliet peacefully.
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