Romeo is expecting good news, he had a dream that he was dead and Juliet kissed him and he came back to life. Balthasar arrives with news for Romeo but the news isn’t good its that he found out that Juliet was dead. Balthasar says that Romeo looks like he going to hurt himself. Romeo says “Juliet, I’ll lie with you tonight” which is implying that he will kill himself, he is also wondering where he could get his hands on poison and he realises the Apothecary has some. Romeo goes to the Apothecary to get some poison and the Apothecary want to reject him as its against the law but sells it to him as the Apothecary is poor.