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For stony limits cannot hold out love

By Amanda Mabillard, About.com

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Romeo's words foreshadow the lovers' tragic end in Capulet's tomb. Compare the line to Friar Laurence's frantic cry:

Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains
The stony entrance of this sepulchre? (5.3.146)

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