What is the relevance of this romeo and juliet quote?

Question

"not ill tell you without asking. My master is the great rich capulet and if you be of the house of Montague's ill pray come"

Thanks

Answer 1

Relevance to what old top? It's a slight misquotation; here it as from the end of Act 1 Scene 2  being said by a cocky servant to Romeo.

"Now I'll tell you without asking: my Master is the great

rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of Montagues,

I pray, come and crush a cup of wine.  Rest you merry!"

It's importance to the play is that having learned of the shindig going on Romeo then gatecrashes it for sport - even though he IS of the house of Montague and shouldn't be there - and of course he sees Juliet for the first time, whereupon they fall in love at first sight - and the rest of the misery kicks off.

I suppose its relevance is that if the servant doesn't tell Romeo, he doesn't go to the Capulets house, doesn't see Juliet, etcetera and so on. Except that they're "star-crossed lovers" and would have met at some stage (no pun intended) anyway right?