'With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do, that dares love attempt. Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.'

So said Romeo when, having scaled the walls of the Capulet home he is reminded by Juliet that 'this place is death, considering who thou art, if any of my kinsmen find thee here.'

The theme is a familiar one