Romeo and Juliet

Can you find verbal irony in the play? Where?

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One example of verbal irony would be Romeo's reference to the poison he has purchased as a "sweet medicine". A cordial is a sweet liquor or medicine.

Come, cordial and not poison, go with me
To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.