Answer:
The statements about Friar Laurence’s soliloquy in Act 2 and Scene 3 are true are:
* Friar Laurence contrasts the good and bad uses of herbs.
* Friar Laurence explains to the audience his use for herbs.
Explanation:
The question is not complete since it does not provide the soliloquy, here is the soliloquy:
The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,
And fleckled darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day’s path and Titan’s fiery wheels.
Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
The day to cheer and night’s dank dew to dry,
I must upfill this osier cage of ours
With baleful weeds and precious-juicèd flowers.
The earth, that’s nature’s mother, is her tomb.
What is her burying, grave that is her womb.
And from her womb children of divers kind
We sucking on her natural bosom find,
Many for many virtues excellent,
None but for some and yet all different.
Oh, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.
For naught so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give.
Nor aught so good but, strained from that fair use
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.
Friar Laurence enters to the room and starts explaining that he is about to collect all the necessary plant between poisonous herbs and flowers that he need to work with, the soliloquy gives him the time to explain how the earth can give to the man elements to do good and bad or to mix them and make them work.
