O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day, most woeful day,
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
O day! O day! O day! O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this:
O woeful day, O woeful day!
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Scene 5. The Nurse, first to discover Juliet’s body in her bed on the morning of her planned wedding to Paris, reacts. Being close to Juliet since she was a baby, the horrified Nurse reacts with an outpouring of uncontrollable grief and sorrow. Juliet’s plan to fake her death in a bid to escape marrying Paris appears to be working.