A close curtain is the curtain surrounding a four poster bed, which the occupants can draw closed for privacy. Juliet is calling on the personified night (whom she calls “love-performing,” since most love-making is performed at night) to bring darkness which will hide the two lovers like a close curtain. Who are the runaways whose eyes would just wink at Romeo and Juliet going to bed together? Scholars have yet to come up with a conclusive theory about to whom Shakespeare was referring.