Location: Mantua
Time: Wednesday morning
Character: Romeo, Balthasar and Apothecary
Events: Romeo servent Balthasar arrives with news from Verona. Juliet is dead. Romeo quickly decides that he is going to go to Juliets grave and drink the poison there. Apothecary looks poor and Romeo convinces him to sell him the poison even though selling poison is illegal and Romeo gives him money.
Quote: ” There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell “