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ROMEO AND JULIET
[ACT III.

An[C 1] 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.

Jul. Yet let me weep for such a feeling[E 1] loss.
Lady Cap. So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend75
Which you weep for.[E 2]
Jul. Feeling so the loss,
I cannot choose but ever weep the friend.
Lady Cap. Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death
As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him.
Jul. What villain, madam?
Lady Cap. That same villain, Romeo.80
Jul. [Aside][C 2] Villain and he be[C 3] many miles asunder.—
God pardon him![C 4] I do, with all my heart;
And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.
Lady Cap. That is because the traitor murderer[C 5] lives.
Jul. Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands:85
Would none but I might venge my cousin's death!
Lady Cap. We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not:
Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,
Where that same banish'd runagate doth live,
  1. 71. An] Theobald; And Q, F.
  2. 81. [Aside]] Hanmer;
  3. be] Q, F; are Q 1.
  4. 82. him] Q 4, F 2; omitted Q, F.
  5. 84. murderer] Q, omitted F.
  1. 74. feeling] sensible, affecting; so "feeling sorrows," Winter's Tale, IV. ii. 8.
  2. 76. weep for] Theobald emends the verse by reading "do weep for." Mommsen conjectures But feeling or In feeling.