...audiences, rather more obvious. Two instances show this clearly. In Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence says: The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,...appetite. Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; (2.6) This draws on Proverbs 25:16 — "If thou have founde honie, eat that is sufficient for thee,...

...scene in which he again advises Romeo to 'love moderately': These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. The Friar also saves Romeo from despair and suicide when he is banished. It is plain that Shakespeare was...

...and death, as in Friar Laurence's early warning to Romeo: These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. (II.5.9-11) Romeo will compare the lethal action of the poison running through his veins and the sudden,...

...warning, and the following words are deeply ironic: FRIAR These violent delights have violent ends 10 And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which...appetite. Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. 15 Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. The Friar warns that passion often ends in violence, just...

...Juliet, whose state of mind is manifest to him all too clearly: These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume: the sweeter honey Is loathsome in its own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore...

...love: Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. (2.3.90) These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume; (2.6.9-11) and his perspective highlights the moralising aspect which was noted in chapter 1 as such...