Welcome from Mantua Friar John! What does Romeo say? Or if he's written give me his letter.
I went to find a fellow Friar to go with me. He was in this city visiting the sick. Then health officials suspected that we both were in a house contaminated by the plague. Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth. So I was prevented from going to Mantua.
Who gave my letter then to Romeo?
I could not send it, here it is.
Oh unhappy fortune! The letter contained very important instructions. Juliet will awake in three hours. I will send another message but I will have to keep her at my cell 'till Romeo comes.