Romeo and Juliet

What is Friar Lawrence implying about recent events in his statement in these lines?



BALTHASAR As I did sleep under this yew tree here, I dreamt my master and another fought, And that my master slew him.   FRIAR LAWRENCE (approaches the tomb)      Romeo!— Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains The stony entrance of the sepulcher? What mean these masterless and gory swords To lie discolored by this place of peace? (looks inside the tomb) Romeo! O, pale!—Who else? What, Paris too? And steeped in blood?—Ah, what an unkind hour Is guilty of this lamentable chance!
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Friar laments the mayhem of recent events. He talks of bloody violence so close to the sacred Capulet shrine (The stony entrance of the sepulcher). He personifies the hour as being "unkind" that it should produce such a sad bloody site. The "masters" of the fight (Romeo and Paris) are dead which makes this violence even more of a waste of young life. 

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