The Nurse has found Juliet sleeping from the effects of a potion and believes her dead, as do her parents. Only Friar Lawrence knows the truth and he cannot tell the truth. From William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V. Detail of a 1792 engraving by Peter Simon from the painting by John Opie.

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