Ha! let me see her: out, alas! she’s cold:
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Scene 5. Capulet is in disbelief that Juliet is dead. He uses a simile to compare her death to that of a beautiful flower killed by an early frost. Capulet’s language about his daughter has changed considerably since Act 3, Scene 5, when he angrily labeled her a "disobedient wrench!" Now to Capulet Juliet is metaphorically the most beautiful flower in the field. The passage is an example of dramatic irony since the audience knows that Juliet is not dead, but sleeping.