Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much.
Go in: and tell my lady I am gone,
Having displeased my father, to Laurence’ cell,
To make confession and to be absolved.
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5. Juliet pretends to take the Nurse’s advice to marry Paris, her father’s choice of a husband for her. With irony and hidden sarcasm she tells the Nurse that she has been a great comfort to her. Juliet asks her to inform her mother that she has displeased her father and has gone to Friar Laurence to make confession and seek absolution. This implies that Juliet has agreed to her father’s demand to marry Paris. But Juliet’s message is meant to mislead her parents. In reality she is going to Friar Laurence so that he will marry her and Romeo.