Several things go wrong when the Friar marries the young couple. First, Tybalt kills Mercutio in the streets of Verona, and Romeo responds by killing Tybalt in a duel. This results in his banishment to Mantua, separating him from his new bride. Then Lord Capulet, ignorant of Juliet's marriage to Romeo, arranges a wedding between his daughter and Paris. In order to escape this fate, Juliet agrees to a plan concocted by the Friar. She takes a poison that makes her appear dead, and is thus buried in the Capulet family crypt. The Friar tried to get word of the plot to Romeo, but his messenger was unable to reach him due to a plague outbreak in Mantua. Balthasar, Romeo's servant, did get through, however, and, being ignorant of the Friar's plot, he tells Romeo that Juliet is dead. Romeo buys a vial of poison and rushes back to the Capulet mausoleum, where he kills young Paris and then, encountering Juliet's body, himself. Juliet awakes to find her lover dead by her side, and takes her own life. So after the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, everything goes wrong for the young lovers, who are, as stated in the Prologue, indeed "star-cross'd."
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