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"restorative"
Wordplay
Act 5,
Scene 3
Lines 161-167

An explanation of the use of the word “restorative” in Act 5, Scene 3 of myShakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Juliet

What's here? A cup closed in my true love's hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.
O churl, drunk all and left no friendly drop
To help me after. I will kiss thy lips.
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them
To make me die with a restorative.
[Kisses him]
Thy lips are warm.

A restorative is a medicine or liquor which would restore Juliet and bring her back to consciousness. In other words, it would do the opposite of "to make me die." In one sense, the kiss is her restorative, and the drops of poison, its opposite. In another sense, in dying, Juliet is restored to Romeo.