Lady Capulet. Why, how now, Juliet!...

Romeo and Juliet

Juliet Capulet Nurse Lady Capulet Lord Capulet

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Lady Capulet. Why, how now, Juliet!

Juliet. Madam, I am not well.

Lady Capulet. Evermore weeping for your cousin's death?

What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?

An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live;

Therefore, have done: some grief shows much of love;

But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

Juliet. Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.

Lady Capulet. So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend

Which you weep for.

Juliet. Feeling so the loss,

Cannot choose but ever weep the friend.

Lady Capulet. Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death,

As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him.

Juliet. What villain madam?

Lady Capulet. That same villain, Romeo.

Juliet. [Aside] Villain and he be many miles asunder.—

God Pardon him! I do, with all my

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