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"feeling" and "feel"
Wordplay
Act 3,
Scene 5
Lines 69-77

An explanation of the wordplay on “feel” in Act 3, Scene 5 of myShakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

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,
I cannot choose but ever weep the friend.

Juliet weeps for her feeling of loss; her heart felt the loss of Tybalt. Her mother takes the opportunity for a bit of wordplay, saying that although she can feel the loss, she cannot "feel" Tybalt since her weeping will not bring him back.