A big question from Romeo & Juliet Play......?

Can anyone explain every line to me in simple English. Please... this is from Act Two, Scene 3



The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,

Check'ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light;

And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels

From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels.

Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye

The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,

I must up-fill this osier cage of ours

With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.

The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb.

What is her burying grave, that is her womb;

And from her womb children of divers kind

We sucking on her natural bosom find.

Many for many virtues excellent,

None but for some, and yet all different.

O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies

In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities.

For naught so vile that on earth doth live

But to the earth some special good doth give;

Nor aught so good but, strained from that fair use,

Continued.................

A big question from Romeo %26amp; Juliet Play......?
Friar Lawrence said that, right? The only thing really important about this passage is that its hows that the friar has an ability to work with plants and herbs (essentially potions). It shows it in this part :

O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies

In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities.



Hope that helps....if not, try typing in Romeo and Juliet on Google. There are some websites that analyze the text.