[Enter FRIAR LAURENCE] Friar Laurence. Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man: 1870Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. [Enter ROMEO] Romeo. Father, what news? what is the prince's doom? What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand, 1875That I yet know not? Friar Laurence. Too familiar Is my dear son with such sour company: I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom. Romeo. What less than dooms-day is the prince's doom? 1880 Friar Laurence. A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips, Not body's death, but body's banishment. Romeo. Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;' For exile hath more terror in his look, Much more than death: do not say 'banishment.' 1885 Friar Laurence. Hence from Verona art thou banished: Be patient, for the world is broad and wide. Romeo. There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence-banished is banish'd from the world, 1890And world's exile is death: then banished, Is death mis-term'd: calling death banishment, Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe, And smilest upon the stroke that murders me. Friar Laurence. O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness! 1895Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind prince, Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law, And turn'd that black word death to banishment: This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not. Romeo. 'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here, 1900Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her; But Romeo may not: more validity, More honourable state, more courtship lives 1905In carrion-flies than Romeo: they my seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin; 1910But Romeo may not; he is banished: Flies may do this, but I from this must fly: They are free men, but I am banished. And say'st thou yet that exile is not death? Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife, 1915No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But 'banished' to kill me?—'banished'? O friar, the damned use that word in hell; Howlings attend it: how hast thou the heart, Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, 1920A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd, To mangle me with that word 'banished'?
friar tells romeo that the prince had shown him mercy instead of killing him he decided to banish him but romeo insist that this is worse then executing him because he would be separated from Juliet
