Or bid me go into a new-made grave
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
And I will do it without fear or doubt,
To live an unstain’d wife to my sweet love.
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Scene 1. Shortly before her arranged marriage to Paris, Juliet vows that she will not be in his bridal bed with him. She would rather lie in a grave beside a dead man, she declares. Juliet is secretly married to Romeo and intends to remain faithful to him. The passage is a testimony to her uncompromising love for Romeo. It is also an example of foreshadowing of things to come, since Juliet will lie in the Capulet tomb with her dead cousin Tybalt, when she fakes her death.