Husband, I come.

The line is spoken by Juliet in Shakespeare’s tragedy *Romeo and Juliet*. It occurs in the final scene in the Capulet family tomb. Juliet awakens from the friar’s sleeping potion to find Romeo dead beside her, having taken poison after believing she was truly dead. With the watch approaching and no time to flee, Juliet rejects escape and chooses to die as well. Addressing Romeo as her “husband,” she takes his dagger and stabs herself, dying beside him. The line is part of her last utterances, underscoring the play’s culmination in mutual, self-willed death.

“Husband, I come” compresses Juliet’s devotion, agency, and fatal resolve into a brief vow. Calling Romeo “husband” asserts the legitimacy of their private marriage against the public world that has denied it, and it frames her death as a reunion rather than mere despair. The phrase “I come” suggests movement toward Romeo—an imagined joining that life has made impossible—while also echoing the language of consummation and union, now darkly redirected into suicide. In the play’s logic, love and death become inseparable: Juliet’s final act is both protest against the feud’s constraints and a tragic attempt to restore unity through self-destruction.