Let me be ta’en, let me be put to death;
I am content, so thou wilt have it so.
…I have more care to stay than will to go:
Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.
How is ‘t, my soul? let’s talk; it is not day.
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5. As Romeo and Juliet face their moment of final separation following their wedding night, Romeo offers to stay with his beloved Juliet and die. They are both aware that the Prince has banished him from Verona and to be caught there is a death sentence. There is dramatic irony and foreshadowing in Romeo’s words, since the audience is aware that both of them will tragically die later in the play.