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"Then she is well, and nothing can be ill."
Allusion
Act 5,
Scene 1
Lines 12-19

An explanation of the proverbial allusion in Act 5, Scene 1 of myShakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo

News from Verona! How now, Balthasar!
Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?
How doth my lady? Is my father well?
How doth my Juliet? That I ask again,
For nothing can be ill if she be well.

Balthasar

Then she is well, and nothing can be ill.
Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,
And her immortal part with angels lives.

This line recalls the proverb, "he is well who is in heaven." Balthasar is breaking the news to Romeo softly, telling him that Juliet has died, without saying it outright.