Juliet, who can’t wait until the sun sets so that she can spend her first night with Romeo, expresses her impatience by evoking imagery from classical Greek and Roman mythology. Phoebus is the sun god who rides across the sky in his golden chariot pulled by a team of horses. Juliet urges Phoebus to speed to his nighttime lodgings. She wishes that Phoebus’ reckless son Phaeton were driving the chariot so that night would arrive sooner. (Although Phaeton once lost control of his father’s chariot and set the earth on fire!)