Romeo's joy was ever quick to blossom; let the roots he'd put down here grow strong in another soil.

"Wait, wait!" Montague could not help a small chuckle, and thump Romeo's back. "There is one thing more. Just one, that I beg of you as your father, and not as head of the House of Montague." He sighed. "That should you wish to wed again, you do so with all our kin present, before the eyes of God, in Verona. Do not deny me this, my son. Do not make a pledge in a foreign land, among strangers, in secret or without my consent." Not again.