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Read the excerpt from Act IV, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Friar Laurence: On Thursday, sir? the time is very short.Paris: My father Capulet will have it so;And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.Friar Laurence: You say you do not know the lady's mind:Uneven is the course, I like it not.Paris: Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,And therefore have I little talk'd of love;For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.Why does Paris's request create dramatic irony in this scene?

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