No, madam; we have cull’d such necessaries
As are behoveful for our state to-morrow:
So please you, let me now be left alone,
And let the nurse this night sit up with you;
For, I am sure, you have your hands full all,
In this so sudden business.
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Scene 3. When Lady Capulet asks her daughter is she needs any help for her wedding preparations, Juliet says no. Juliet asks to be left alone, because she plans to drink a sleeping potion that induces a death-like state, so she won’t have to marry Paris. This is an example of dramatic irony, because the audience knows of her plan.