No Fear Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
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Act 3, Scene 5, Page 4
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JULIET
Who is ’t that calls? Is it my lady mother?
Is she not down so late or up so early?
What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?
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JULIET
Who’s that calling? Is it my mother? Isn’t she
up very late? Or is she up very early? What strange reason could she
have for coming here?
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Enter LADY CAPULET
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LADY CAPULET
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LADY CAPULET
Why, how now, Juliet?
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LADY CAPULET
What’s going on, Juliet?
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JULIET
Madam,
I am not well.
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JULIET
Madam, I am not well.
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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.
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LADY CAPULET
Will you cry about your cousin’s death forever? Are you
trying to wash him out of his grave with tears? If you could, you
couldn’t bring him back to life. So stop crying. A little
bit of grief shows a lot of love. But too much grief makes you look
stupid.
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JULIET
Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.
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JULIET
Let me keep weeping for such a great loss.
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LADY CAPULET
So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend
Which you weep for.
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LADY CAPULET
You will feel the loss, but the man you weep for will feel
nothing.
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JULIET
Feeling
so the loss,
Cannot choose but ever weep the friend.
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JULIET
Feeling the loss like this, I can’t help but weep for him
forever.
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LADY CAPULET
Well, girl, thou weep’st not so much for his death,
As that the villain lives which slaughtered him.
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LADY CAPULET
Well, girl, you’re weeping not for his death as much as
for the fact that the villain who killed him is still alive.
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JULIET
What villain, madam?
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JULIET
What villain, madam?
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LADY CAPULET
That
same villain, Romeo.
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LADY CAPULET
That villain, Romeo.
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