PARIS: Come you to make confession to this father?
JULIET: To answer that, I should confess to you.
PARIS: Do not deny to him that you love me.
JULIET: I will confess to you that I love him.
PARIS: So will ye, I am sure, that you love me.
JULIET: If I do so, it will be of more price,
Being spoke behind your back, than to your face.
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Scene 1. While telling no outright lie, Juliet speaks in double meanings and ambiguous language when she encounters Paris in Friar Laurence’s cell. Paris gets no straight answers from Juliet, expecially on the matter of who it is she loves. She is protecting her secret love for and marriage to Romeo. Paris is led to believe by Juliet and Laurence that she is there to receive confession and leaves after the above exchange – "God shield I should disturb devotion." The reality is that Juliet is not visiting the Friar for confession but to enlist his help in getting out of a marriage to Paris.