Friar had given Juliet the potion..he trusted a teenage girl that she needed something when he knew that she had just met Romeo - that is plain stupid. “If thou hast the strength of will to slay himself take thou this vial no warmth no breath to testify”(Shakespeare 453). If Friar had never given her the potion none of them would be dead and Paris and Juliet would be living happily. Another reason Friar is to blame is because he trusted someone with such news that is actually a sleazebag and can’t deliver the letter of her “death” and the plan. “This should be the same voice of Friar John….what says Romeo?.....One out of order, to associate me Here in the city visiting the sick, suspecting that we both were in a house Where the infectious pestilence did reign sealed the doors”(Shakespeare 470). Frair should never have sent someone with such amount of news other than