I don't want to be doing anyone's homework either, but I do love the Shakespeare Lookup.
Aside from the charming metaphors and similes (stars and suns and roses), this entire scene is laden throughout with dramatic irony, as the original audience would have guessed, even without knowing, for certain, the denouement. (And the story was not original to Shakespeare.)
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