Romeo travels to the Capulet tomb and buys poison from an apothecary. He runs into Paris, who has come to secretly mourn Juliet. Paris confronts Romeo, believing him to be a vandal, and Romeo kills Paris in the following combat. He consumes the poison, still assuming Juliet is dead. When Juliet wakes up, she discovers Romeo is dead and stabs herself with his knife, joining him in death. When the feuding families and the Prince get at the tomb, they discover that all three of their members have died. The narrative of the two "star-cross'd lovers" is told by Friar Laurence. The deaths of their children bring the families together, and they resolve to put an end to their bitter animosity. The Prince's elegy for the lovers concludes the play: "For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
