Friar Laurence

kept secret and the more quickly it is done the less chance there is someone to discovers it. He seems to be in agreement with the two teenagers that marriage is!
             the right choice for them: " So smile the heavens upon this holy act, That after-hours with sorrow chide us not" (3.1. 1-2). He also give advice on love to Romeo:
             These violent delights have violet ends,
             And in their triumph die like fire and powder,
             Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
             Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
             And in the taste confounds the appetite.
             Therefore love moderately: long love doth so;
             Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow ( 3.1. 9-15).
             He warns Romeo that these pleasures can have violent ends, as if he already knows what will happens at the end. He also says to Romeo to love moderately, which means that it is better to love less but for a longer period than to have a powerful love at the beginning that degrades through time. He says to be not too swift nor too slow. Finally, Friar Laurence says to Romeo that marriage is serious and he has to be careful and do the right things.
             Friar Laurence is also the one who tells Romeo that he is banished: "A gentler judgement vanished from his lips: Not body's death, but body's banishment" (3.3. 10-11). Everyone thought that Romeo will have to di
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