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Lady Capulet: O me! This sight of death is as a bell
That warns my old age to a sepulchre.
She's looking at Romeo and Juliet, who have just killed themselves. This is the sight of death. It was a feature of funerals that a bell would be rung, the death-knell, to mark the funeral. That is what John Donne is talking about when he says "Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Here Lady Capulet says the sight of her dead child is like hearing a death-knell, and like Donne's bell, it tolls for her. It is a reminder of death, a warning that as age draws on, you get closer to the tomb, which is what sepulchre means.
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act 2 scene 2 line 71
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act 3 scene 2 line 45
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When did Romeo fall in love with Juliet?
When Romeo first sees Juliet dancing at the party, he fell in love.
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