In this excerpt from act v of shakespeare's romeo and juliet, romeo encounters paris when he enters juliet’s grave. paris challenges him to a duel, but romeo pleads to be left alone before he is forced to fight. what does this excerpt reveal about romeo’s character? romeo: i must indeed; and therefore came i hither. good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man; fly hence, and leave me: think upon these gone; let them affright thee. i beseech thee, youth, put not another sin upon my head, by urging me to fury: o, be gone! by heaven, i love thee better than myself; for i come hither arm'd against myself: stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say, a madman's mercy bade thee run away.