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Lady Capulet and Juliet, Lines 68a-106
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Act 3,
Scene 5
Lines 68a-106

Lady Capulet and Juliet perform an excerpt of Act 3, Scene 5 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 3.5 Performance: Lady Capulet and Juliet, Lines 68a-106

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,
I 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 slaughtered him.

Juliet

What villain, madam?

Lady Capulet

                                    That same villain Romeo.          

Juliet

Villain and he be many miles asunder. 
God pardon him; I do, with all my heart;
And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.

Lady Capulet

That is, because the traitor murderer lives.

Juliet

Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands.
Would none but I might venge my cousin's death.

Lady Capulet

We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not.
Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,
Where that same banished runagate doth live,
Shall give him such an unaccustomed dram,              
That he shall soon keep Tybalt company;
And then I hope thou wilt be satisfied.

Juliet

Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
With Romeo till I behold him — dead —
Is my poor heart for a kinsman vexed.
Madam, if you could find out but a man
To bear a poison, I would temper it;
That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,
Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors
To hear him named, and cannot come to him                
To wreak the love I bore my cousin
Upon his body that slaughtered him!

Lady Capulet

Find thou the means, and I'll find such a man.
But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings, girl.

Juliet

And joy comes well in such a needy time.
What are they, beseech your ladyship?