Extract 7 Act 5 Scene 3

Juliet: What’s this? A bottle in my true love’s hand? [She takes the bottle of poison from Romeo’s hand and smells it] Poison, I see, has brought him to his end. [Holds the bottle up and sees that it is empty] Oh, you have drunk it all, and not left a friendly drop* to help me too. [She hears a noise] Someone is coming! Then I shall be quick. [Sees Romeo’s knife and takes it out] Oh happy knife, this is where you will stay now. [Holds it against her heart]

Stay there, and let me die. [Stabs herself and falls to the ground]

*Why does she say that a drop of poison would be ‘friendly’?