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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>The Tomb of the ANDRONICI appearing; the Tribunes and Senators aloft. Enter, below, from one side, SATURNINUS and his Followers; and, from the other side, BASSIANUS and his Followers; with drum and colours</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>Noble patricians, patrons of my right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>Defend the justice of my cause with arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>And, countrymen, my loving followers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>Plead my successive title with your swords:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>I am his first-born son, that was the last</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>That wore the imperial diadem of Rome;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>Then let my father's honours live in me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>Nor wrong mine age with this indignity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>Romans, friends, followers, favorers of my right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>If ever Bassianus, Caesar's son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>Keep then this passage to the Capitol</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>And suffer not dishonour to approach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>The imperial seat, to virtue consecrate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>To justice, continence and nobility;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>But let desert in pure election shine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>And, Romans, fight for freedom in your choice.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MARCUS ANDRONICUS, aloft, with the crown</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>Princes, that strive by factions and by friends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>Ambitiously for rule and empery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>Know that the people of Rome, for whom we stand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>A special party, have, by common voice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>In election for the Roman empery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>Chosen Andronicus, surnamed Pius</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>For many good and great deserts to Rome:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>A nobler man, a braver warrior,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>Lives not this day within the city walls:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>He by the senate is accit'd home</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>From weary wars against the barbarous Goths;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>That, with his sons, a terror to our foes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>Hath yoked a nation strong, train'd up in arms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>Ten years are spent since first he undertook</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>This cause of Rome and chastised with arms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>Our enemies' pride: five times he hath return'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>Bleeding to Rome, bearing his valiant sons</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>In coffins from the field;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>And now at last, laden with horror's spoils,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>Returns the good Andronicus to Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>Renowned Titus, flourishing in arms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>Let us entreat, by honour of his name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>Whom worthily you would have now succeed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>And in the Capitol and senate's right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>Whom you pretend to honour and adore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>That you withdraw you and abate your strength;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>Dismiss your followers and, as suitors should,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>Plead your deserts in peace and humbleness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>How fair the tribune speaks to calm my thoughts!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>Marcus Andronicus, so I do ally</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>In thy uprightness and integrity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>And so I love and honour thee and thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>Thy noble brother Titus and his sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>And her to whom my thoughts are humbled all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>Gracious Lavinia, Rome's rich ornament,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>That I will here dismiss my loving friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>And to my fortunes and the people's favor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>Commit my cause in balance to be weigh'd.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt the followers of BASSIANUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>Friends, that have been thus forward in my right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>I thank you all and here dismiss you all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>And to the love and favor of my country</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>Commit myself, my person and the cause.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt the followers of SATURNINUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>Rome, be as just and gracious unto me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>As I am confident and kind to thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>Open the gates, and let me in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>Tribunes, and me, a poor competitor.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. SATURNINUS and BASSIANUS go up into the Capitol</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Captain</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>Romans, make way: the good Andronicus.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>Patron of virtue, Rome's best champion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>Successful in the battles that he fights,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>With honour and with fortune is return'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>From where he circumscribed with his sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>And brought to yoke, the enemies of Rome.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drums and trumpets sounded. Enter MARTIUS and MUTIUS; After them, two Men bearing a coffin covered with black; then LUCIUS and QUINTUS. After them, TITUS ANDRONICUS; and then TAMORA, with ALARBUS, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, AARON, and other Goths, prisoners; Soldiers and people following. The Bearers set down the coffin, and TITUS speaks</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>Hail, Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>Lo, as the bark, that hath discharged her fraught,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>Returns with precious jading to the bay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>From whence at first she weigh'd her anchorage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>Cometh Andronicus, bound with laurel boughs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>To re-salute his country with his tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>Tears of true joy for his return to Rome.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>Thou great defender of this Capitol,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>Stand gracious to the rites that we intend!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>Romans, of five and twenty valiant sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>Half of the number that King Priam had,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>Behold the poor remains, alive and dead!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>These that survive let Rome reward with love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>These that I bring unto their latest home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>With burial amongst their ancestors:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>Here Goths have given me leave to sheathe my sword.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>Titus, unkind and careless of thine own,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>Why suffer'st thou thy sons, unburied yet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>To hover on the dreadful shore of Styx?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>Make way to lay them by their brethren.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The tomb is opened</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>There greet in silence, as the dead are wont,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>And sleep in peace, slain in your country's wars!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>O sacred receptacle of my joys,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>Sweet cell of virtue and nobility,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>How many sons of mine hast thou in store,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>That thou wilt never render to me more!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>Give us the proudest prisoner of the Goths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>That we may hew his limbs, and on a pile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>Ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>Before this earthy prison of their bones;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>That so the shadows be not unappeased,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>Nor we disturb'd with prodigies on earth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>I give him you, the noblest that survives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>The eldest son of this distressed queen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>Stay, Roman brethren! Gracious conqueror,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>Victorious Titus, rue the tears I shed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>A mother's tears in passion for her son:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>And if thy sons were ever dear to thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>O, think my son to be as dear to me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>Sufficeth not that we are brought to Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>To beautify thy triumphs and return,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>Captive to thee and to thy Roman yoke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>But must my sons be slaughter'd in the streets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>For valiant doings in their country's cause?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>O, if to fight for king and commonweal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>Were piety in thine, it is in these.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>Andronicus, stain not thy tomb with blood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>Draw near them then in being merciful:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>Thrice noble Titus, spare my first-born son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>Patient yourself, madam, and pardon me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>These are their brethren, whom you Goths beheld</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>Alive and dead, and for their brethren slain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>Religiously they ask a sacrifice:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>To this your son is mark'd, and die he must,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>To appease their groaning shadows that are gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>Away with him! and make a fire straight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>And with our swords, upon a pile of wood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>Let's hew his limbs till they be clean consumed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt LUCIUS, QUINTUS, MARTIUS, and MUTIUS, with ALARBUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>O cruel, irreligious piety!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>Was ever Scythia half so barbarous?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>Oppose not Scythia to ambitious Rome.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>Alarbus goes to rest; and we survive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>To tremble under Titus' threatening looks.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>Then, madam, stand resolved, but hope withal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>The self-same gods that arm'd the Queen of Troy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>With opportunity of sharp revenge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>Upon the Thracian tyrant in his tent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>May favor Tamora, the Queen of Goths--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>When Goths were Goths and Tamora was queen--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>To quit the bloody wrongs upon her foes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter LUCIUS, QUINTUS, MARTIUS and MUTIUS, with their swords bloody</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>See, lord and father, how we have perform'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>Our Roman rites: Alarbus' limbs are lopp'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>And entrails feed the sacrificing fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>Whose smoke, like incense, doth perfume the sky.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>Remaineth nought, but to inter our brethren,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>And with loud 'larums welcome them to Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>Let it be so; and let Andronicus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>Make this his latest farewell to their souls.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Trumpets sounded, and the coffin laid in the tomb</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>In peace and honour rest you here, my sons;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>Rome's readiest champions, repose you here in rest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>Here grow no damned grudges; here are no storms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>No noise, but silence and eternal sleep:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>In peace and honour rest you here, my sons!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LAVINIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>In peace and honour live Lord Titus long;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>My noble lord and father, live in fame!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>Lo, at this tomb my tributary tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>I render, for my brethren's obsequies;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>And at thy feet I kneel, with tears of joy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>Shed on the earth, for thy return to Rome:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.163>O, bless me here with thy victorious hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.164>Whose fortunes Rome's best citizens applaud!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.165>Kind Rome, that hast thus lovingly reserved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.166>The cordial of mine age to glad my heart!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.167>Lavinia, live; outlive thy father's days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.168>And fame's eternal date, for virtue's praise!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter, below, MARCUS ANDRONICUS and Tribunes; re-enter SATURNINUS and BASSIANUS, attended</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.169>Long live Lord Titus, my beloved brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.170>Gracious triumpher in the eyes of Rome!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.171>Thanks, gentle tribune, noble brother Marcus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.172>And welcome, nephews, from successful wars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.173>You that survive, and you that sleep in fame!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.174>Fair lords, your fortunes are alike in all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.175>That in your country's service drew your swords:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.176>But safer triumph is this funeral pomp,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.177>That hath aspired to Solon's happiness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.178>And triumphs over chance in honour's bed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.179>Titus Andronicus, the people of Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.180>Whose friend in justice thou hast ever been,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.181>Send thee by me, their tribune and their trust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.182>This palliament of white and spotless hue;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.183>And name thee in election for the empire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.184>With these our late-deceased emperor's sons:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.185>Be candidatus then, and put it on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.186>And help to set a head on headless Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.187>A better head her glorious body fits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.188>Than his that shakes for age and feebleness:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.189>What should I don this robe, and trouble you?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.190>Be chosen with proclamations to-day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.191>To-morrow yield up rule, resign my life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.192>And set abroad new business for you all?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.193>Rome, I have been thy soldier forty years,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.194>And led my country's strength successfully,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.195>And buried one and twenty valiant sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.196>Knighted in field, slain manfully in arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.197>In right and service of their noble country</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.198>Give me a staff of honour for mine age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.199>But not a sceptre to control the world:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.200>Upright he held it, lords, that held it last.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.201>Titus, thou shalt obtain and ask the empery.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.202>Proud and ambitious tribune, canst thou tell?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.203>Patience, Prince Saturninus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.204>Romans, do me right:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.205>Patricians, draw your swords: and sheathe them not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.206>Till Saturninus be Rome's emperor.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.207>Andronicus, would thou wert shipp'd to hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.208>Rather than rob me of the people's hearts!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.209>Proud Saturnine, interrupter of the good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.210>That noble-minded Titus means to thee!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.211>Content thee, prince; I will restore to thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.212>The people's hearts, and wean them from themselves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.213>Andronicus, I do not flatter thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.214>But honour thee, and will do till I die:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.215>My faction if thou strengthen with thy friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.216>I will most thankful be; and thanks to men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.217>Of noble minds is honourable meed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.218>People of Rome, and people's tribunes here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.219>I ask your voices and your suffrages:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.220>Will you bestow them friendly on Andronicus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Tribunes</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.221>To gratify the good Andronicus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.222>And gratulate his safe return to Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.223>The people will accept whom he admits.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.224>Tribunes, I thank you: and this suit I make,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.225>That you create your emperor's eldest son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.226>Lord Saturnine; whose virtues will, I hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.227>Reflect on Rome as Titan's rays on earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.228>And ripen justice in this commonweal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.229>Then, if you will elect by my advice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.230>Crown him and say 'Long live our emperor!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.231>With voices and applause of every sort,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.232>Patricians and plebeians, we create</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.233>Lord Saturninus Rome's great emperor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.234>And say 'Long live our Emperor Saturnine!'</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A long flourish till they come down</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.235>Titus Andronicus, for thy favors done</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.236>To us in our election this day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.237>I give thee thanks in part of thy deserts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.238>And will with deeds requite thy gentleness:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.239>And, for an onset, Titus, to advance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.240>Thy name and honourable family,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.241>Lavinia will I make my empress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.242>Rome's royal mistress, mistress of my heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.243>And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.244>Tell me, Andronicus, doth this motion please thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.245>It doth, my worthy lord; and in this match</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.246>I hold me highly honour'd of your grace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.247>And here in sight of Rome to Saturnine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.248>King and commander of our commonweal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.249>The wide world's emperor, do I consecrate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.250>My sword, my chariot and my prisoners;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.251>Presents well worthy Rome's imperial lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.252>Receive them then, the tribute that I owe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.253>Mine honour's ensigns humbled at thy feet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.254>Thanks, noble Titus, father of my life!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.255>How proud I am of thee and of thy gifts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.256>Rome shall record, and when I do forget</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.257>The least of these unspeakable deserts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.258>Romans, forget your fealty to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.259>[To TAMORA] Now, madam, are you prisoner to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.260>an emperor;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.261>To him that, for your honour and your state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.262>Will use you nobly and your followers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.263>A goodly lady, trust me; of the hue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.264>That I would choose, were I to choose anew.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.265>Clear up, fair queen, that cloudy countenance:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.266>Though chance of war hath wrought this change of cheer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.267>Thou comest not to be made a scorn in Rome:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.268>Princely shall be thy usage every way.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.269>Rest on my word, and let not discontent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.270>Daunt all your hopes: madam, he comforts you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.271>Can make you greater than the Queen of Goths.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.272>Lavinia, you are not displeased with this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.273>Not I, my lord; sith true nobility</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.274>Warrants these words in princely courtesy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.275>Thanks, sweet Lavinia. Romans, let us go;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.276>Ransomless here we set our prisoners free:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.277>Proclaim our honours, lords, with trump and drum.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. SATURNINUS courts TAMORA in dumb show</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.278>Lord Titus, by your leave, this maid is mine.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Seizing LAVINIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.279>How, sir! are you in earnest then, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.280>Ay, noble Titus; and resolved withal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.281>To do myself this reason and this right.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.282>'Suum cuique' is our Roman justice:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.283>This prince in justice seizeth but his own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.284>And that he will, and shall, if Lucius live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.285>Traitors, avaunt! Where is the emperor's guard?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.286>Treason, my lord! Lavinia is surprised!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.287>Surprised! by whom?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.288>By him that justly may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.289>Bear his betroth'd from all the world away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt BASSIANUS and MARCUS with LAVINIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>MUTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.290>Brothers, help to convey her hence away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.291>And with my sword I'll keep this door safe.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.292>Follow, my lord, and I'll soon bring her back.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>MUTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.293>My lord, you pass not here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.294>What, villain boy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.295>Barr'st me my way in Rome?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Stabbing MUTIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>MUTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.296>Help, Lucius, help!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dies</i></p> | |
| <p><i>During the fray, SATURNINUS, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON and AARON go out and re-enter, above</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter LUCIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.297>My lord, you are unjust, and, more than so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.298>In wrongful quarrel you have slain your son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.299>Nor thou, nor he, are any sons of mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.300>My sons would never so dishonour me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.301>Traitor, restore Lavinia to the emperor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.302>Dead, if you will; but not to be his wife,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.303>That is another's lawful promised love.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.304>No, Titus, no; the emperor needs her not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.305>Nor her, nor thee, nor any of thy stock:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.306>I'll trust, by leisure, him that mocks me once;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.307>Thee never, nor thy traitorous haughty sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.308>Confederates all thus to dishonour me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.309>Was there none else in Rome to make a stale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.310>But Saturnine? Full well, Andronicus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.311>Agree these deeds with that proud brag of thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.312>That said'st I begg'd the empire at thy hands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.313>O monstrous! what reproachful words are these?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.314>But go thy ways; go, give that changing piece</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.315>To him that flourish'd for her with his sword</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.316>A valiant son-in-law thou shalt enjoy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.317>One fit to bandy with thy lawless sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.318>To ruffle in the commonwealth of Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.319>These words are razors to my wounded heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.320>And therefore, lovely Tamora, queen of Goths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.321>That like the stately Phoebe 'mongst her nymphs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.322>Dost overshine the gallant'st dames of Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.323>If thou be pleased with this my sudden choice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.324>Behold, I choose thee, Tamora, for my bride,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.325>And will create thee empress of Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.326>Speak, Queen of Goths, dost thou applaud my choice?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.327>And here I swear by all the Roman gods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.328>Sith priest and holy water are so near</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.329>And tapers burn so bright and every thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.330>In readiness for Hymenaeus stand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.331>I will not re-salute the streets of Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.332>Or climb my palace, till from forth this place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.333>I lead espoused my bride along with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.334>And here, in sight of heaven, to Rome I swear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.335>If Saturnine advance the Queen of Goths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.336>She will a handmaid be to his desires,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.337>A loving nurse, a mother to his youth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.338>Ascend, fair queen, Pantheon. Lords, accompany</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.339>Your noble emperor and his lovely bride,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.340>Sent by the heavens for Prince Saturnine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.341>Whose wisdom hath her fortune conquered:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.342>There shall we consummate our spousal rites.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but TITUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.343>I am not bid to wait upon this bride.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.344>Titus, when wert thou wont to walk alone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.345>Dishonour'd thus, and challenged of wrongs?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MARCUS, LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.346>O Titus, see, O, see what thou hast done!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.347>In a bad quarrel slain a virtuous son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.348>No, foolish tribune, no; no son of mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.349>Nor thou, nor these, confederates in the deed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.350>That hath dishonour'd all our family;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.351>Unworthy brother, and unworthy sons!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.352>But let us give him burial, as becomes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.353>Give Mutius burial with our brethren.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.354>Traitors, away! he rests not in this tomb:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.355>This monument five hundred years hath stood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.356>Which I have sumptuously re-edified:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.357>Here none but soldiers and Rome's servitors</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.358>Repose in fame; none basely slain in brawls:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.359>Bury him where you can; he comes not here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.360>My lord, this is impiety in you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.361>My nephew Mutius' deeds do plead for him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.362>He must be buried with his brethren.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>QUINTUS</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>MARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.363>And shall, or him we will accompany.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.364>'And shall!' what villain was it that spake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.365>that word?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>QUINTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.366>He that would vouch it in any place but here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.367>What, would you bury him in my despite?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.368>No, noble Titus, but entreat of thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.369>To pardon Mutius and to bury him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.370>Marcus, even thou hast struck upon my crest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.371>And, with these boys, mine honour thou hast wounded:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.372>My foes I do repute you every one;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.373>So, trouble me no more, but get you gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>MARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.374>He is not with himself; let us withdraw.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>QUINTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.375>Not I, till Mutius' bones be buried.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>MARCUS and the Sons of TITUS kneel</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.376>Brother, for in that name doth nature plead,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>QUINTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.377>Father, and in that name doth nature speak,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.378>Speak thou no more, if all the rest will speed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.379>Renowned Titus, more than half my soul,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.380>Dear father, soul and substance of us all,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.381>Suffer thy brother Marcus to inter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.382>His noble nephew here in virtue's nest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.383>That died in honour and Lavinia's cause.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.384>Thou art a Roman; be not barbarous:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.385>The Greeks upon advice did bury Ajax</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.386>That slew himself; and wise Laertes' son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.387>Did graciously plead for his funerals:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.388>Let not young Mutius, then, that was thy joy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.389>Be barr'd his entrance here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.390>Rise, Marcus, rise.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.391>The dismall'st day is this that e'er I saw,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.392>To be dishonour'd by my sons in Rome!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.393>Well, bury him, and bury me the next.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>MUTIUS is put into the tomb</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.394>There lie thy bones, sweet Mutius, with thy friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.395>Till we with trophies do adorn thy tomb.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.396>[Kneeling] No man shed tears for noble Mutius;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.397>He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.398>My lord, to step out of these dreary dumps,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.399>How comes it that the subtle Queen of Goths</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.400>Is of a sudden thus advanced in Rome?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.401>I know not, Marcus; but I know it is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.402>Whether by device or no, the heavens can tell:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.403>Is she not then beholding to the man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.404>That brought her for this high good turn so far?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.405>Yes, and will nobly him remunerate.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Re-enter, from one side, SATURNINUS attended, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON and AARON; from the other, BASSIANUS, LAVINIA, and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.406>So, Bassianus, you have play'd your prize:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.407>God give you joy, sir, of your gallant bride!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.408>And you of yours, my lord! I say no more,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.409>Nor wish no less; and so, I take my leave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.410>Traitor, if Rome have law or we have power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.411>Thou and thy faction shall repent this rape.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.412>Rape, call you it, my lord, to seize my own,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.413>My truth-betrothed love and now my wife?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.414>But let the laws of Rome determine all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.415>Meanwhile I am possess'd of that is mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.416>'Tis good, sir: you are very short with us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.417>But, if we live, we'll be as sharp with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.418>My lord, what I have done, as best I may,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.419>Answer I must and shall do with my life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.420>Only thus much I give your grace to know:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.421>By all the duties that I owe to Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.422>This noble gentleman, Lord Titus here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.423>Is in opinion and in honour wrong'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.424>That in the rescue of Lavinia</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.425>With his own hand did slay his youngest son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.426>In zeal to you and highly moved to wrath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.427>To be controll'd in that he frankly gave:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.428>Receive him, then, to favor, Saturnine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.429>That hath express'd himself in all his deeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.430>A father and a friend to thee and Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.431>Prince Bassianus, leave to plead my deeds:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.432>'Tis thou and those that have dishonour'd me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.433>Rome and the righteous heavens be my judge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.434>How I have loved and honour'd Saturnine!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.435>My worthy lord, if ever Tamora</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.436>Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.437>Then hear me speak in indifferently for all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.438>And at my suit, sweet, pardon what is past.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.439>What, madam! be dishonour'd openly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.440>And basely put it up without revenge?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.441>Not so, my lord; the gods of Rome forfend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.442>I should be author to dishonour you!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.443>But on mine honour dare I undertake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.444>For good Lord Titus' innocence in all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.445>Whose fury not dissembled speaks his griefs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.446>Then, at my suit, look graciously on him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.447>Lose not so noble a friend on vain suppose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.448>Nor with sour looks afflict his gentle heart.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside to SATURNINUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.449>be won at last;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.450>Dissemble all your griefs and discontents:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.451>You are but newly planted in your throne;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.452>Lest, then, the people, and patricians too,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.453>Upon a just survey, take Titus' part,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.454>And so supplant you for ingratitude,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.455>Which Rome reputes to be a heinous sin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.456>Yield at entreats; and then let me alone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.457>I'll find a day to massacre them all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.458>And raze their faction and their family,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.459>The cruel father and his traitorous sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.460>To whom I sued for my dear son's life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.461>And make them know what 'tis to let a queen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.462>Kneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aloud</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.463>Come, come, sweet emperor; come, Andronicus;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.464>Take up this good old man, and cheer the heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.465>That dies in tempest of thy angry frown.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.466>Rise, Titus, rise; my empress hath prevail'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.467>I thank your majesty, and her, my lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.468>These words, these looks, infuse new life in me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.469>Titus, I am incorporate in Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.470>A Roman now adopted happily,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.471>And must advise the emperor for his good.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.472>This day all quarrels die, Andronicus;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.473>And let it be mine honour, good my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.474>That I have reconciled your friends and you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.475>For you, Prince Bassianus, I have pass'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.476>My word and promise to the emperor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.477>That you will be more mild and tractable.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.478>And fear not lords, and you, Lavinia;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.479>By my advice, all humbled on your knees,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.480>You shall ask pardon of his majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.481>We do, and vow to heaven and to his highness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.482>That what we did was mildly as we might,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.483>Tendering our sister's honour and our own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.484>That, on mine honour, here I do protest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.485>Away, and talk not; trouble us no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.486>Nay, nay, sweet emperor, we must all be friends:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.487>The tribune and his nephews kneel for grace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.488>I will not be denied: sweet heart, look back.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.489>Marcus, for thy sake and thy brother's here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.490>And at my lovely Tamora's entreats,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.491>I do remit these young men's heinous faults: Stand up.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.492>Lavinia, though you left me like a churl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.493>I found a friend, and sure as death I swore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.494>I would not part a bachelor from the priest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.495>Come, if the emperor's court can feast two brides,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.496>You are my guest, Lavinia, and your friends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.497>This day shall be a love-day, Tamora.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.498>To-morrow, an it please your majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.499>To hunt the panther and the hart with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.500>With horn and hound we'll give your grace bonjour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.501>Be it so, Titus, and gramercy too.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Rome. Before the Palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter AARON</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>Safe out of fortune's shot; and sits aloft,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>Advanced above pale envy's threatening reach.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>As when the golden sun salutes the morn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>And, having gilt the ocean with his beams,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>Gallops the zodiac in his glistering coach,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>And overlooks the highest-peering hills;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>So Tamora:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>Upon her wit doth earthly honour wait,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>To mount aloft with thy imperial mistress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>And mount her pitch, whom thou in triumph long</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>Hast prisoner held, fetter'd in amorous chains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>And faster bound to Aaron's charming eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>Than is Prometheus tied to Caucasus.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>Away with slavish weeds and servile thoughts!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>I will be bright, and shine in pearl and gold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>To wait upon this new-made empress.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>To wait, said I? to wanton with this queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>This goddess, this Semiramis, this nymph,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>This siren, that will charm Rome's Saturnine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>And see his shipwreck and his commonweal's.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>Holloa! what storm is this?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON, braving</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>Chiron, thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>And manners, to intrude where I am graced;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>And may, for aught thou know'st, affected be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>Demetrius, thou dost over-ween in all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>And so in this, to bear me down with braves.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>'Tis not the difference of a year or two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>Makes me less gracious or thee more fortunate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>I am as able and as fit as thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>To serve, and to deserve my mistress' grace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>And that my sword upon thee shall approve,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>And plead my passions for Lavinia's love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>[Aside] Clubs, clubs! these lovers will not keep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>the peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>Why, boy, although our mother, unadvised,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>Gave you a dancing-rapier by your side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>Are you so desperate grown, to threat your friends?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>Go to; have your lath glued within your sheath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>Till you know better how to handle it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>Meanwhile, sir, with the little skill I have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>Full well shalt thou perceive how much I dare.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>Ay, boy, grow ye so brave?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They draw</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>[Coming forward] Why, how now, lords!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>So near the emperor's palace dare you draw,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>And maintain such a quarrel openly?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>Full well I wot the ground of all this grudge:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>I would not for a million of gold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>The cause were known to them it most concerns;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>Nor would your noble mother for much more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>Be so dishonour'd in the court of Rome.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>For shame, put up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56> Not I, till I have sheathed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>My rapier in his bosom and withal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>Thrust these reproachful speeches down his throat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>That he hath breathed in my dishonour here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>For that I am prepared and full resolved.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>And with thy weapon nothing darest perform!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>Away, I say!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>Now, by the gods that warlike Goths adore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>This petty brabble will undo us all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>It is to jet upon a prince's right?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>What, is Lavinia then become so loose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>Or Bassianus so degenerate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>That for her love such quarrels may be broach'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>Without controlment, justice, or revenge?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>Young lords, beware! and should the empress know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>This discord's ground, the music would not please.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>I care not, I, knew she and all the world:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>I love Lavinia more than all the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>Youngling, learn thou to make some meaner choice:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>Lavinia is thine elder brother's hope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>Why, are ye mad? or know ye not, in Rome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>How furious and impatient they be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>And cannot brook competitors in love?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>I tell you, lords, you do but plot your deaths</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>By this device.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83> Aaron, a thousand deaths</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>Would I propose to achieve her whom I love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>To achieve her! how?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>Why makest thou it so strange?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>She is a woman, therefore may be won;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>What, man! more water glideth by the mill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>Than wots the miller of; and easy it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>Better than he have worn Vulcan's badge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>[Aside] Ay, and as good as Saturninus may.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>Then why should he despair that knows to court it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>With words, fair looks and liberality?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>What, hast not thou full often struck a doe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>And borne her cleanly by the keeper's nose?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>Why, then, it seems, some certain snatch or so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101>Would serve your turns.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>Ay, so the turn were served.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>Aaron, thou hast hit it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>Would you had hit it too!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>Then should not we be tired with this ado.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>Why, hark ye, hark ye! and are you such fools</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>To square for this? would it offend you, then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>That both should speed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>Faith, not me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110> Nor me, so I were one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111>For shame, be friends, and join for that you jar:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>'Tis policy and stratagem must do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>That you affect; and so must you resolve,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>That what you cannot as you would achieve,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115>You must perforce accomplish as you may.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>Take this of me: Lucrece was not more chaste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>Than this Lavinia, Bassianus' love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>A speedier course than lingering languishment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.119>Must we pursue, and I have found the path.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.120>My lords, a solemn hunting is in hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.121>There will the lovely Roman ladies troop:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.122>The forest walks are wide and spacious;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.123>And many unfrequented plots there are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.124>Fitted by kind for rape and villany:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.125>Single you thither then this dainty doe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.126>And strike her home by force, if not by words:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.127>This way, or not at all, stand you in hope.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.128>Come, come, our empress, with her sacred wit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.129>To villany and vengeance consecrate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.130>Will we acquaint with all that we intend;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.131>And she shall file our engines with advice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.132>That will not suffer you to square yourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.133>But to your wishes' height advance you both.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.134>The emperor's court is like the house of Fame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.135>The palace full of tongues, of eyes, and ears:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.136>The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and dull;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.137>There speak, and strike, brave boys, and take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.138>your turns;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.139>There serve your lusts, shadow'd from heaven's eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.140>And revel in Lavinia's treasury.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.141>Thy counsel, lad, smells of no cowardice,</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.142>Sit fas aut nefas, till I find the stream</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.143>To cool this heat, a charm to calm these fits.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.144>Per Styga, per manes vehor.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A forest near Rome. Horns and cry of hounds heard.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TITUS ANDRONICUS, with Hunters, & c., MARCUS, LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>The fields are fragrant and the woods are green:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>Uncouple here and let us make a bay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>And wake the emperor and his lovely bride</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>And rouse the prince and ring a hunter's peal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>That all the court may echo with the noise.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>Sons, let it be your charge, as it is ours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>To attend the emperor's person carefully:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>I have been troubled in my sleep this night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>But dawning day new comfort hath inspired.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A cry of hounds and horns, winded in a peal. Enter SATURNINUS, TAMORA, BASSIANUS, LAVINIA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, and Attendants</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>Many good morrows to your majesty;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>Madam, to you as many and as good:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>I promised your grace a hunter's peal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>And you have rung it lustily, my lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>Somewhat too early for new-married ladies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>Lavinia, how say you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>I say, no;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>I have been broad awake two hours and more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>Come on, then; horse and chariots let us have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>And to our sport.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To TAMORA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>Madam, now shall ye see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>Our Roman hunting.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23> I have dogs, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>Will rouse the proudest panther in the chase,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>And climb the highest promontory top.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>And I have horse will follow where the game</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>Makes way, and run like swallows o'er the plain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>Chiron, we hunt not, we, with horse nor hound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>But hope to pluck a dainty doe to ground.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A lonely part of the forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter AARON, with a bag of gold</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>He that had wit would think that I had none,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>To bury so much gold under a tree,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>And never after to inherit it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>Let him that thinks of me so abjectly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>Know that this gold must coin a stratagem,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>Which, cunningly effected, will beget</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>A very excellent piece of villany:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>And so repose, sweet gold, for their unrest</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Hides the gold</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>That have their alms out of the empress' chest.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter TAMORA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>My lovely Aaron, wherefore look'st thou sad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>When every thing doth make a gleeful boast?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>The birds chant melody on every bush,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>And make a chequer'd shadow on the ground:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>And, whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>As if a double hunt were heard at once,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>Let us sit down and mark their yelping noise;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>And, after conflict such as was supposed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>When with a happy storm they were surprised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>Be unto us as is a nurse's song</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>Madam, though Venus govern your desires,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>Saturn is dominator over mine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>What signifies my deadly-standing eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>My silence and my cloudy melancholy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>Even as an adder when she doth unroll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>To do some fatal execution?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>No, madam, these are no venereal signs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>Hark Tamora, the empress of my soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>Which never hopes more heaven than rests in thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>This is the day of doom for Bassianus:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>His Philomel must lose her tongue to-day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>Thy sons make pillage of her chastity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>And wash their hands in Bassianus' blood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>Seest thou this letter? take it up, I pray thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>And give the king this fatal plotted scroll.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>Now question me no more; we are espied;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>Here comes a parcel of our hopeful booty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>Which dreads not yet their lives' destruction.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>Ah, my sweet Moor, sweeter to me than life!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>No more, great empress; Bassianus comes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53>Be cross with him; and I'll go fetch thy sons</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>To back thy quarrels, whatsoe'er they be.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter BASSIANUS and LAVINIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55>Who have we here? Rome's royal empress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>Unfurnish'd of her well-beseeming troop?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57>Or is it Dian, habited like her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>Who hath abandoned her holy groves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>To see the general hunting in this forest?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>Saucy controller of our private steps!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.61>Had I the power that some say Dian had,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.62>Thy temples should be planted presently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.63>With horns, as was Actaeon's; and the hounds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.64>Should drive upon thy new-transformed limbs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.65>Unmannerly intruder as thou art!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.66>Under your patience, gentle empress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.67>'Tis thought you have a goodly gift in horning;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.68>And to be doubted that your Moor and you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.69>Are singled forth to try experiments:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.70>Jove shield your husband from his hounds to-day!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.71>'Tis pity they should take him for a stag.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.72>Believe me, queen, your swarth Cimmerian</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.73>Doth make your honour of his body's hue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.74>Spotted, detested, and abominable.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.75>Why are you sequester'd from all your train,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.76>Dismounted from your snow-white goodly steed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.77>And wander'd hither to an obscure plot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.78>Accompanied but with a barbarous Moor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.79>If foul desire had not conducted you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.80>And, being intercepted in your sport,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.81>Great reason that my noble lord be rated</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.82>For sauciness. I pray you, let us hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.83>And let her joy her raven-colour'd love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.84>This valley fits the purpose passing well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BASSIANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.85>The king my brother shall have note of this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.86>Ay, for these slips have made him noted long:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.87>Good king, to be so mightily abused!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.88>Why have I patience to endure all this?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.89>How now, dear sovereign, and our gracious mother!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.90>Why doth your highness look so pale and wan?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.91>Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.92>These two have 'ticed me hither to this place:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.93>A barren detested vale, you see it is;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.94>The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.95>O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.96>Here never shines the sun; here nothing breeds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.97>Unless the nightly owl or fatal raven:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.98>And when they show'd me this abhorred pit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.99>They told me, here, at dead time of the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.100>A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.101>Ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.102>Would make such fearful and confused cries</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.103>As any mortal body hearing it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.104>Should straight fall mad, or else die suddenly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.105>No sooner had they told this hellish tale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.106>But straight they told me they would bind me here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.107>Unto the body of a dismal yew,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.108>And leave me to this miserable death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.109>And then they call'd me foul adulteress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.110>Lascivious Goth, and all the bitterest terms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.111>That ever ear did hear to such effect:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.112>And, had you not by wondrous fortune come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.113>This vengeance on me had they executed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.114>Revenge it, as you love your mother's life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.115>Or be ye not henceforth call'd my children.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.116>This is a witness that I am thy son.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Stabs BASSIANUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.117>And this for me, struck home to show my strength.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Also stabs BASSIANUS, who dies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.118>Ay, come, Semiramis, nay, barbarous Tamora,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.119>For no name fits thy nature but thy own!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.120>Give me thy poniard; you shall know, my boys</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.121>Your mother's hand shall right your mother's wrong.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.122>Stay, madam; here is more belongs to her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.123>First thrash the corn, then after burn the straw:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.124>This minion stood upon her chastity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.125>Upon her nuptial vow, her loyalty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.126>And with that painted hope braves your mightiness:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.127>And shall she carry this unto her grave?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.128>An if she do, I would I were an eunuch.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.129>Drag hence her husband to some secret hole,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.130>And make his dead trunk pillow to our lust.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.131>But when ye have the honey ye desire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.132>Let not this wasp outlive, us both to sting.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.133>I warrant you, madam, we wil l make that sure.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.134>Come, mistress, now perforce we will enjoy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.135>That nice-preserved honesty of yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.136>O Tamora! thou bear'st a woman's face,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.137>I will not hear her speak; away with her!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.138>Sweet lords, entreat her hear me but a word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.139>Listen, fair madam: let it be your glory</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.140>To see her tears; but be your heart to them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.141>As unrelenting flint to drops of rain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.142>When did the tiger's young ones teach the dam?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.143>O, do not learn her wrath; she taught it thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.144>The milk thou suck'dst from her did turn to marble;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.145>Even at thy teat thou hadst thy tyranny.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.146>Yet every mother breeds not sons alike:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To CHIRON</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.147>Do thou entreat her show a woman pity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.148>What, wouldst thou have me prove myself a bastard?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.149>'Tis true; the raven doth not hatch a lark:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.150>Yet have I heard,--O, could I find it now!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.151>The lion moved with pity did endure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.152>To have his princely paws pared all away:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.153>Some say that ravens foster forlorn children,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.154>The whilst their own birds famish in their nests:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.155>O, be to me, though thy hard heart say no,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.156>Nothing so kind, but something pitiful!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.157>I know not what it means; away with her!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.158>O, let me teach thee! for my father's sake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.159>That gave thee life, when well he might have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.160>slain thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.161>Be not obdurate, open thy deaf ears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.162>Hadst thou in person ne'er offended me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.163>Even for his sake am I pitiless.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.164>Remember, boys, I pour'd forth tears in vain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.165>To save your brother from the sacrifice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.166>But fierce Andronicus would not relent;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.167>Therefore, away with her, and use her as you will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.168>The worse to her, the better loved of me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.169>O Tamora, be call'd a gentle queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.170>And with thine own hands kill me in this place!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.171>For 'tis not life that I have begg'd so long;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.172>Poor I was slain when Bassianus died.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.173>What begg'st thou, then? fond woman, let me go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.174>'Tis present death I beg; and one thing more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.175>That womanhood denies my tongue to tell:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.176>O, keep me from their worse than killing lust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.177>And tumble me into some loathsome pit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.178>Where never man's eye may behold my body:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.179>Do this, and be a charitable murderer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.180>So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.181>No, let them satisfy their lust on thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.182>Away! for thou hast stay'd us here too long.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>LAVINIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.183>No grace? no womanhood? Ah, beastly creature!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.184>The blot and enemy to our general name!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.185>Confusion fall--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.186>Nay, then I'll stop your mouth. Bring thou her husband:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.187>This is the hole where Aaron bid us hide him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>DEMETRIUS throws the body of BASSIANUS into the pit; then exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON, dragging off LAVINIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.188>Farewell, my sons: see that you make her sure.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.189>Ne'er let my heart know merry cheer indeed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.190>Till all the Andronici be made away.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.191>Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.192>And let my spleenful sons this trull deflow'r.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter AARON, with QUINTUS and MARTIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.193>Come on, my lords, the better foot before:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.194>Straight will I bring you to the loathsome pit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.195>Where I espied the panther fast asleep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>QUINTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.196>My sight is very dull, whate'er it bodes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.197>And mine, I promise you; were't not for shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.198>Well could I leave our sport to sleep awhile.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Falls into the pit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>QUINTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.199>What art thou fall'n? What subtle hole is this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.200>Whose mouth is cover'd with rude-growing briers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.201>Upon whose leaves are drops of new-shed blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.202>As fresh as morning dew distill'd on flowers?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.203>A very fatal place it seems to me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.204>Speak, brother, hast thou hurt thee with the fall?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>MARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.205>O brother, with the dismall'st object hurt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.206>That ever eye with sight made heart lament!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.207>[Aside] Now will I fetch the king to find them here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.208>That he thereby may give a likely guess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.209>How these were they that made away his brother.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>MARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.210>Why dost not comfort me, and help me out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.211>From this unhallowed and blood-stained hole?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>QUINTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.212>I am surprised with an uncouth fear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.213>A chilling sweat o'er-runs my trembling joints:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.214>My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>MARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.215>To prove thou hast a true-divining heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.216>Aaron and thou look down into this den,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.217>And see a fearful sight of blood and death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>QUINTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.218>Aaron is gone; and my compassionate heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.219>Will not permit mine eyes once to behold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.220>The thing whereat it trembles by surmise;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.221>O, tell me how it is; for ne'er till now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.222>Was I a child to fear I know not what.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>MARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.223>Lord Bassianus lies embrewed here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.224>All on a heap, like to a slaughter'd lamb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.225>In this detested, dark, blood-drinking pit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>QUINTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.226>If it be dark, how dost thou know 'tis he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>MARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.227>Upon his bloody finger he doth wear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.228>A precious ring, that lightens all the hole,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.229>Which, like a taper in some monument,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.230>Doth shine upon the dead man's earthy cheeks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.231>And shows the ragged entrails of the pit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.232>So pale did shine the moon on Pyramus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.233>When he by night lay bathed in maiden blood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.234>O brother, help me with thy fainting hand--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.235>If fear hath made thee faint, as me it hath--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.236>Out of this fell devouring receptacle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.237>As hateful as Cocytus' misty mouth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>QUINTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.238>Reach me thy hand, that I may help thee out;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.239>Or, wanting strength to do thee so much good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.240>I may be pluck'd into the swallowing womb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.241>Of this deep pit, poor Bassianus' grave.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.242>I have no strength to pluck thee to the brink.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>MARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.243>Nor I no strength to climb without thy help.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>QUINTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.244>Thy hand once more; I will not loose again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.245>Till thou art here aloft, or I below:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.246>Thou canst not come to me: I come to thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Falls in</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter SATURNINUS with AARON</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.247>Along with me: I'll see what hole is here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.248>And what he is that now is leap'd into it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.249>Say who art thou that lately didst descend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.250>Into this gaping hollow of the earth?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>MARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.251>The unhappy son of old Andronicus:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.252>Brought hither in a most unlucky hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.253>To find thy brother Bassianus dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.254>My brother dead! I know thou dost but jest:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.255>He and his lady both are at the lodge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.256>Upon the north side of this pleasant chase;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.257>'Tis not an hour since I left him there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>MARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.258>We know not where you left him all alive;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.259>But, out, alas! here have we found him dead.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter TAMORA, with Attendants; TITUS ANDRONICUS, and Lucius</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.260>Where is my lord the king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.261>Here, Tamora, though grieved with killing grief.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.262>Where is thy brother Bassianus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.263>Now to the bottom dost thou search my wound:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.264>Poor Bassianus here lies murdered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.265>Then all too late I bring this fatal writ,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.266>The complot of this timeless tragedy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.267>And wonder greatly that man's face can fold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.268>In pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>She giveth SATURNINUS a letter</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.269>[Reads] 'An if we miss to meet him handsomely--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.270>Sweet huntsman, Bassianus 'tis we mean--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.271>Do thou so much as dig the grave for him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.272>Thou know'st our meaning. Look for thy reward</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.273>Among the nettles at the elder-tree</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.274>Which overshades the mouth of that same pit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.275>Where we decreed to bury Bassianus.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.276>Do this, and purchase us thy lasting friends.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.277>O Tamora! was ever heard the like?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.278>This is the pit, and this the elder-tree.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.279>Look, sirs, if you can find the huntsman out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.280>That should have murdered Bassianus here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.281>My gracious lord, here is the bag of gold.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.282>[To TITUS] Two of thy whelps, fell curs of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.283>bloody kind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.284>Have here bereft my brother of his life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.285>Sirs, drag them from the pit unto the prison:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.286>There let them bide until we have devised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.287>Some never-heard-of torturing pain for them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.288>What, are they in this pit? O wondrous thing!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.289>How easily murder is discovered!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.290>High emperor, upon my feeble knee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.291>I beg this boon, with tears not lightly shed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.292>That this fell fault of my accursed sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.293>Accursed if the fault be proved in them,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.294>If it be proved! you see it is apparent.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.295>Who found this letter? Tamora, was it you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.296>Andronicus himself did take it up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.297>I did, my lord: yet let me be their bail;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.298>For, by my father's reverend tomb, I vow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.299>They shall be ready at your highness' will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.300>To answer their suspicion with their lives.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.301>Thou shalt not bail them: see thou follow me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.302>Some bring the murder'd body, some the murderers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.303>Let them not speak a word; the guilt is plain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.304>For, by my soul, were there worse end than death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.305>That end upon them should be executed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.306>Andronicus, I will entreat the king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.307>Fear not thy sons; they shall do well enough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.308>Come, Lucius, come; stay not to talk with them.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Another part of the forest.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON with LAVINIA, ravished; her hands cut off, and her tongue cut out</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.1>So, now go tell, an if thy tongue can speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.2>Who 'twas that cut thy tongue and ravish'd thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.3>Write down thy mind, bewray thy meaning so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.4>An if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.5>See, how with signs and tokens she can scrowl.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.6>Go home, call for sweet water, wash thy hands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.7>She hath no tongue to call, nor hands to wash;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.8>And so let's leave her to her silent walks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.9>An 'twere my case, I should go hang myself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.10>If thou hadst hands to help thee knit the cord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter MARCUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.11>Who is this? my niece, that flies away so fast!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.12>Cousin, a word; where is your husband?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.13>If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.14>If I do wake, some planet strike me down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.15>That I may slumber in eternal sleep!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.16>Speak, gentle niece, what stern ungentle hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.17>Have lopp'd and hew'd and made thy body bare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.18>Of her two branches, those sweet ornaments,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.19>Whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.20>And might not gain so great a happiness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.21>As have thy love? Why dost not speak to me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.22>Alas, a crimson river of warm blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.23>Like to a bubbling fountain stirr'd with wind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.24>Doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.25>Coming and going with thy honey breath.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.26>But, sure, some Tereus hath deflowered thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.27>And, lest thou shouldst detect him, cut thy tongue.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.28>Ah, now thou turn'st away thy face for shame!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.29>And, notwithstanding all this loss of blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.30>As from a conduit with three issuing spouts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.31>Yet do thy cheeks look red as Titan's face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.32>Blushing to be encountered with a cloud.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.33>Shall I speak for thee? shall I say 'tis so?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.34>O, that I knew thy heart; and knew the beast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.35>That I might rail at him, to ease my mind!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.36>Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.37>Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.38>Fair Philomela, she but lost her tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.39>And in a tedious sampler sew'd her mind:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.40>But, lovely niece, that mean is cut from thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.41>A craftier Tereus, cousin, hast thou met,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.42>And he hath cut those pretty fingers off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.43>That could have better sew'd than Philomel.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.44>O, had the monster seen those lily hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.45>Tremble, like aspen-leaves, upon a lute,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.46>And make the silken strings delight to kiss them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.47>He would not then have touch'd them for his life!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.48>Or, had he heard the heavenly harmony</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.49>Which that sweet tongue hath made,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.50>He would have dropp'd his knife, and fell asleep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.51>As Cerberus at the Thracian poet's feet.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.52>Come, let us go, and make thy father blind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.53>For such a sight will blind a father's eye:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.54>One hour's storm will drown the fragrant meads;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.55>What will whole months of tears thy father's eyes?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.56>Do not draw back, for we will mourn with thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.57>O, could our mourning ease thy misery!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Rome. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Judges, Senators and Tribunes, with MARTIUS and QUINTUS, bound, passing on to the place of execution; TITUS going before, pleading</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>Hear me, grave fathers! noble tribunes, stay!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>For pity of mine age, whose youth was spent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>In dangerous wars, whilst you securely slept;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>For all my blood in Rome's great quarrel shed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>For all the frosty nights that I have watch'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>And for these bitter tears, which now you see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>Filling the aged wrinkles in my cheeks;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>Be pitiful to my condemned sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>Whose souls are not corrupted as 'tis thought.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>For two and twenty sons I never wept,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>Because they died in honour's lofty bed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Lieth down; the Judges, & c., pass by him, and Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>For these, these, tribunes, in the dust I write</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>My heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>Let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>My sons' sweet blood will make it shame and blush.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>O earth, I will befriend thee more with rain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>That shall distil from these two ancient urns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>Than youthful April shall with all his showers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>In summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>In winter with warm tears I'll melt the snow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>And keep eternal spring-time on thy face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>So thou refuse to drink my dear sons' blood.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LUCIUS, with his sword drawn</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>O reverend tribunes! O gentle, aged men!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>Unbind my sons, reverse the doom of death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>And let me say, that never wept before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>My tears are now prevailing orators.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>O noble father, you lament in vain:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>The tribunes hear you not; no man is by;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>And you recount your sorrows to a stone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>Ah, Lucius, for thy brothers let me plead.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>Grave tribunes, once more I entreat of you,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>My gracious lord, no tribune hears you speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>Why, tis no matter, man; if they did hear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>They would not mark me, or if they did mark,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>They would not pity me, yet plead I must;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36>Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37>Who, though they cannot answer my distress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>For that they will not intercept my tale:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>When I do weep, they humbly at my feet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>Receive my tears and seem to weep with me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>And, were they but attired in grave weeds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>Rome could afford no tribune like to these.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>A stone is soft as wax,--tribunes more hard than stones;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.45>A stone is silent, and offendeth not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.46>And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Rises</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.47>But wherefore stand'st thou with thy weapon drawn?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.48>To rescue my two brothers from their death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.49>For which attempt the judges have pronounced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.50>My everlasting doom of banishment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.51>O happy man! they have befriended thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.52>Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.53>That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.54>Tigers must prey, and Rome affords no prey</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.55>But me and mine: how happy art thou, then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.56>From these devourers to be banished!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.57>But who comes with our brother Marcus here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MARCUS and LAVINIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.58>Titus, prepare thy aged eyes to weep;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.59>Or, if not so, thy noble heart to break:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.60>I bring consuming sorrow to thine age.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.61>Will it consume me? let me see it, then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.62>This was thy daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.63>Why, Marcus, so she is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.64>Ay me, this object kills me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.65>Faint-hearted boy, arise, and look upon her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.66>Speak, Lavinia, what accursed hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.67>Hath made thee handless in thy father's sight?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.68>What fool hath added water to the sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.69>Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.70>My grief was at the height before thou camest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.71>And now like Nilus, it disdaineth bounds.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.72>Give me a sword, I'll chop off my hands too;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.73>For they have fought for Rome, and all in vain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.74>And they have nursed this woe, in feeding life;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.75>In bootless prayer have they been held up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.76>And they have served me to effectless use:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.77>Now all the service I require of them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.78>Is that the one will help to cut the other.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.79>'Tis well, Lavinia, that thou hast no hands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.80>For hands, to do Rome service, are but vain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.81>Speak, gentle sister, who hath martyr'd thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.82>O, that delightful engine of her thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.83>That blabb'd them with such pleasing eloquence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.84>Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.85>Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.86>Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.87>O, say thou for her, who hath done this deed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.88>O, thus I found her, straying in the park,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.89>Seeking to hide herself, as doth the deer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.90>That hath received some unrecuring wound.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.91>It was my deer; and he that wounded her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.92>Hath hurt me more than had he killed me dead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.93>For now I stand as one upon a rock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.94>Environed with a wilderness of sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.95>Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.96>Expecting ever when some envious surge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.97>Will in his brinish bowels swallow him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.98>This way to death my wretched sons are gone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.99>Here stands my other son, a banished man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.100>And here my brother, weeping at my woes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.101>But that which gives my soul the greatest spurn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.102>Is dear Lavinia, dearer than my soul.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.103>Had I but seen thy picture in this plight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.104>It would have madded me: what shall I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.105>Now I behold thy lively body so?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.106>Thou hast no hands, to wipe away thy tears:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.107>Nor tongue, to tell me who hath martyr'd thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.108>Thy husband he is dead: and for his death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.109>Thy brothers are condemn'd, and dead by this.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.110>Look, Marcus! ah, son Lucius, look on her!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.111>When I did name her brothers, then fresh tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.112>Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.113>Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.114>Perchance she weeps because they kill'd her husband;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.115>Perchance because she knows them innocent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.116>If they did kill thy husband, then be joyful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.117>Because the law hath ta'en revenge on them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.118>No, no, they would not do so foul a deed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.119>Witness the sorrow that their sister makes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.120>Gentle Lavinia, let me kiss thy lips.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.121>Or make some sign how I may do thee ease:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.122>Shall thy good uncle, and thy brother Lucius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.123>And thou, and I, sit round about some fountain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.124>Looking all downwards to behold our cheeks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.125>How they are stain'd, as meadows, yet not dry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.126>With miry slime left on them by a flood?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.127>And in the fountain shall we gaze so long</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.128>Till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.129>And made a brine-pit with our bitter tears?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.130>Or shall we cut away our hands, like thine?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.131>Or shall we bite our tongues, and in dumb shows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.132>Pass the remainder of our hateful days?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.133>What shall we do? let us, that have our tongues,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.134>Plot some deuce of further misery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.135>To make us wonder'd at in time to come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.136>Sweet father, cease your tears; for, at your grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.137>See how my wretched sister sobs and weeps.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.138>Patience, dear niece. Good Titus, dry thine eyes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.139>Ah, Marcus, Marcus! brother, well I wot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.140>Thy napkin cannot drink a tear of mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.141>For thou, poor man, hast drown'd it with thine own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.142>Ah, my Lavinia, I will wipe thy cheeks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.143>Mark, Marcus, mark! I understand her signs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.144>Had she a tongue to speak, now would she say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.145>That to her brother which I said to thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.146>His napkin, with his true tears all bewet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.147>Can do no service on her sorrowful cheeks.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.148>O, what a sympathy of woe is this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.149>As far from help as Limbo is from bliss!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter AARON</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.150>Titus Andronicus, my lord the emperor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.151>Sends thee this word,--that, if thou love thy sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.152>Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.153>Or any one of you, chop off your hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.154>And send it to the king: he for the same</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.155>Will send thee hither both thy sons alive;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.156>And that shall be the ransom for their fault.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.157>O gracious emperor! O gentle Aaron!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.158>Did ever raven sing so like a lark,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.159>That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.160>With all my heart, I'll send the emperor My hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.161>Good Aaron, wilt thou help to chop it off?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.162>Stay, father! for that noble hand of thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.163>That hath thrown down so many enemies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.164>Shall not be sent: my hand will serve the turn:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.165>My youth can better spare my blood than you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.166>And therefore mine shall save my brothers' lives.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.167> Which of your hands hath not defended Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.168>And rear'd aloft the bloody battle-axe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.169>Writing destruction on the enemy's castle?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.170>O, none of both but are of high desert:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.171>My hand hath been but idle; let it serve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.172>To ransom my two nephews from their death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.173>Then have I kept it to a worthy end.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.174>Nay, come, agree whose hand shall go along,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.175>For fear they die before their pardon come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.176>My hand shall go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.177> By heaven, it shall not go!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.178>Sirs, strive no more: such wither'd herbs as these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.179>Are meet for plucking up, and therefore mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.180>Sweet father, if I shall be thought thy son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.181>Let me redeem my brothers both from death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.182>And, for our father's sake and mother's care,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.183>Now let me show a brother's love to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.184>Agree between you; I will spare my hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.185>Then I'll go fetch an axe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.186>But I will use the axe.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt LUCIUS and MARCUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.187>Come hither, Aaron; I'll deceive them both:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.188>Lend me thy hand, and I will give thee mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.189>[Aside] If that be call'd deceit, I will be honest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.190>And never, whilst I live, deceive men so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.191>But I'll deceive you in another sort,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.192>And that you'll say, ere half an hour pass.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Cuts off TITUS's hand</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter LUCIUS and MARCUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.193>Now stay your strife: what shall be is dispatch'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.194>Good Aaron, give his majesty my hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.195>Tell him it was a hand that warded him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.196>From thousand dangers; bid him bury it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.197>More hath it merited; that let it have.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.198>As for my sons, say I account of them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.199>As jewels purchased at an easy price;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.200>And yet dear too, because I bought mine own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.201>I go, Andronicus: and for thy hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.202>Look by and by to have thy sons with thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.203>Their heads, I mean. O, how this villany</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.204>Doth fat me with the very thoughts of it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.205>Let fools do good, and fair men call for grace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.206>Aaron will have his soul black like his face.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.207>O, here I lift this one hand up to heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.208>And bow this feeble ruin to the earth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.209>If any power pities wretched tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.210>To that I call!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To LAVINIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.211>What, wilt thou kneel with me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.212>Do, then, dear heart; for heaven shall hear our prayers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.213>Or with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin dim,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.214>And stain the sun with fog, as sometime clouds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.215>When they do hug him in their melting bosoms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.216>O brother, speak with possibilities,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.217>And do not break into these deep extremes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.218>Is not my sorrow deep, having no bottom?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.219>Then be my passions bottomless with them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.220>But yet let reason govern thy lament.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.221>If there were reason for these miseries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.222>Then into limits could I bind my woes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.223>When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.224>If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.225>Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.226>And wilt thou have a reason for this coil?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.227>I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.228>She is the weeping welkin, I the earth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.229>Then must my sea be moved with her sighs;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.230>Then must my earth with her continual tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.231>Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.232>For why my bowels cannot hide her woes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.233>But like a drunkard must I vomit them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.234>Then give me leave, for losers will have leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.235>To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger, with two heads and a hand</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.236>Worthy Andronicus, ill art thou repaid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.237>For that good hand thou sent'st the emperor.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.238>Here are the heads of thy two noble sons;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.239>And here's thy hand, in scorn to thee sent back;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.240>Thy griefs their sports, thy resolution mock'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.241>That woe is me to think upon thy woes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.242>More than remembrance of my father's death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.243>Now let hot AEtna cool in Sicily,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.244>And be my heart an ever-burning hell!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.245>These miseries are more than may be borne.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.246>To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.247>But sorrow flouted at is double death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.248>Ah, that this sight should make so deep a wound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.249>And yet detested life not shrink thereat!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.250>That ever death should let life bear his name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.251>Where life hath no more interest but to breathe!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>LAVINIA kisses TITUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.252>Alas, poor heart, that kiss is comfortless</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.253>As frozen water to a starved snake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.254>When will this fearful slumber have an end?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.255>Now, farewell, flattery: die, Andronicus;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.256>Thou dost not slumber: see, thy two sons' heads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.257>Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.258>Thy other banish'd son, with this dear sight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.259>Struck pale and bloodless; and thy brother, I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.260>Even like a stony image, cold and numb.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.261>Ah, now no more will I control thy griefs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.262>Rend off thy silver hair, thy other hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.263>Gnawing with thy teeth; and be this dismal sight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.264>The closing up of our most wretched eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.265>Now is a time to storm; why art thou still?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.266>Ha, ha, ha!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.267>Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.268>Why, I have not another tear to shed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.269>Besides, this sorrow is an enemy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.270>And would usurp upon my watery eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.271>And make them blind with tributary tears:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.272>Then which way shall I find Revenge's cave?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.273>For these two heads do seem to speak to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.274>And threat me I shall never come to bliss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.275>Till all these mischiefs be return'd again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.276>Even in their throats that have committed them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.277>Come, let me see what task I have to do.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.278>You heavy people, circle me about,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.279>That I may turn me to each one of you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.280>And swear unto my soul to right your wrongs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.281>The vow is made. Come, brother, take a head;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.282>And in this hand the other I will bear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.283>Lavinia, thou shalt be employ'd: these arms!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.284>Bear thou my hand, sweet wench, between thy teeth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.285>As for thee, boy, go get thee from my sight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.286>Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.287>Hie to the Goths, and raise an army there:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.288>And, if you love me, as I think you do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.289>Let's kiss and part, for we have much to do.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt TITUS, MARCUS, and LAVINIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.290>Farewell Andronicus, my noble father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.291>The wofull'st man that ever lived in Rome:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.292>Farewell, proud Rome; till Lucius come again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.293>He leaves his pledges dearer than his life:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.294>Farewell, Lavinia, my noble sister;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.295>O, would thou wert as thou tofore hast been!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.296>But now nor Lucius nor Lavinia lives</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.297>But in oblivion and hateful griefs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.298>If Lucius live, he will requite your wrongs;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.299>And make proud Saturnine and his empress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.300>Beg at the gates, like Tarquin and his queen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.301>Now will I to the Goths, and raise a power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.302>To be revenged on Rome and Saturnine.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A room in Titus's house. A banquet set out.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TITUS, MARCUS, LAVINIA and Young LUCIUS, a boy</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>So, so; now sit: and look you eat no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>Than will preserve just so much strength in us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>As will revenge these bitter woes of ours.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>Marcus, unknit that sorrow-wreathen knot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>And cannot passionate our tenfold grief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>With folded arms. This poor right hand of mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>Is left to tyrannize upon my breast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>Who, when my heart, all mad with misery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>Beats in this hollow prison of my flesh,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>Then thus I thump it down.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To LAVINIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>Thou map of woe, that thus dost talk in signs!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>When thy poor heart beats with outrageous beating,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>Thou canst not strike it thus to make it still.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>Wound it with sighing, girl, kill it with groans;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>Or get some little knife between thy teeth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>And just against thy heart make thou a hole;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>That all the tears that thy poor eyes let fall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>May run into that sink, and soaking in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>Drown the lamenting fool in sea-salt tears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>Fie, brother, fie! teach her not thus to lay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>Such violent hands upon her tender life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>How now! has sorrow made thee dote already?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>Why, Marcus, no man should be mad but I.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>What violent hands can she lay on her life?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>Ah, wherefore dost thou urge the name of hands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>To bid AEneas tell the tale twice o'er,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>How Troy was burnt and he made miserable?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>O, handle not the theme, to talk of hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>Lest we remember still that we have none.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>Fie, fie, how franticly I square my talk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>As if we should forget we had no hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>If Marcus did not name the word of hands!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>Come, let's fall to; and, gentle girl, eat this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>Here is no drink! Hark, Marcus, what she says;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>I can interpret all her martyr'd signs;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>She says she drinks no other drink but tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>Brew'd with her sorrow, mesh'd upon her cheeks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>In thy dumb action will I be as perfect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>As begging hermits in their holy prayers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>Thou shalt not sigh, nor hold thy stumps to heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>Nor wink, nor nod, nor kneel, nor make a sign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>But I of these will wrest an alphabet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>And by still practise learn to know thy meaning.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Young LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>Make my aunt merry with some pleasing tale.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>Alas, the tender boy, in passion moved,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>Peace, tender sapling; thou art made of tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>And tears will quickly melt thy life away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>MARCUS strikes the dish with a knife</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>What dost thou strike at, Marcus, with thy knife?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>At that that I have kill'd, my lord; a fly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>Out on thee, murderer! thou kill'st my heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>Mine eyes are cloy'd with view of tyranny:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>A deed of death done on the innocent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>Becomes not Titus' brother: get thee gone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>I see thou art not for my company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>Alas, my lord, I have but kill'd a fly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>But how, if that fly had a father and mother?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>How would he hang his slender gilded wings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>And buzz lamenting doings in the air!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>Poor harmless fly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>That, with his pretty buzzing melody,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>Came here to make us merry! and thou hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>kill'd him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>Pardon me, sir; it was a black ill-favor'd fly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>Like to the empress' Moor; therefore I kill'd him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>O, O, O,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>Then pardon me for reprehending thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>For thou hast done a charitable deed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>Give me thy knife, I will insult on him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>Flattering myself, as if it were the Moor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>Come hither purposely to poison me.--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>There's for thyself, and that's for Tamora.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>Ah, sirrah!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>Yet, I think, we are not brought so low,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>But that between us we can kill a fly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>That comes in likeness of a coal-black Moor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>Alas, poor man! grief has so wrought on him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>He takes false shadows for true substances.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>Come, take away. Lavinia, go with me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83>I'll to thy closet; and go read with thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>Sad stories chanced in the times of old.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.85>Come, boy, and go with me: thy sight is young,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Rome. Titus's garden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter young LUCIUS, and LAVINIA running after him, and the boy flies from her, with books under his arm. Then enter TITUS and MARCUS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Young LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>Help, grandsire, help! my aunt Lavinia</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>Follows me every where, I know not why:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>Good uncle Marcus, see how swift she comes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>Alas, sweet aunt, I know not what you mean.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>Stand by me, Lucius; do not fear thine aunt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>She loves thee, boy, too well to do thee harm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Young LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>Ay, when my father was in Rome she did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>What means my niece Lavinia by these signs?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>Fear her not, Lucius: somewhat doth she mean:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>See, Lucius, see how much she makes of thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>Somewhither would she have thee go with her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>Ah, boy, Cornelia never with more care</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>Read to her sons than she hath read to thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>Canst thou not guess wherefore she plies thee thus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Young LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>My lord, I know not, I, nor can I guess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>Unless some fit or frenzy do possess her:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>For I have heard my grandsire say full oft,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>Extremity of griefs would make men mad;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>And I have read that Hecuba of Troy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>Ran mad through sorrow: that made me to fear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>Although, my lord, I know my noble aunt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>Loves me as dear as e'er my mother did,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>And would not, but in fury, fright my youth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>Which made me down to throw my books, and fly--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>Causeless, perhaps. But pardon me, sweet aunt:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>And, madam, if my uncle Marcus go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>I will most willingly attend your ladyship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>Lucius, I will.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>LAVINIA turns over with her stumps the books which LUCIUS has let fall</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>How now, Lavinia! Marcus, what means this?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>Some book there is that she desires to see.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>But thou art deeper read, and better skill'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>Come, and take choice of all my library,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>Reveal the damn'd contriver of this deed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>Why lifts she up her arms in sequence thus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>I think she means that there was more than one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>Confederate in the fact: ay, more there was;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>Or else to heaven she heaves them for revenge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>Lucius, what book is that she tosseth so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Young LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>Grandsire, 'tis Ovid's Metamorphoses;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>My mother gave it me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>For love of her that's gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>Perhaps she cull'd it from among the rest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>Soft! see how busily she turns the leaves!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Helping her</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>What would she find? Lavinia, shall I read?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>This is the tragic tale of Philomel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>And treats of Tereus' treason and his rape:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>And rape, I fear, was root of thine annoy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>See, brother, see; note how she quotes the leaves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>Lavinia, wert thou thus surprised, sweet girl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>Ravish'd and wrong'd, as Philomela was,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>Forced in the ruthless, vast, and gloomy woods? See, see!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>Ay, such a place there is, where we did hunt--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>O, had we never, never hunted there!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>Pattern'd by that the poet here describes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>By nature made for murders and for rapes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>O, why should nature build so foul a den,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>Unless the gods delight in tragedies?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>Give signs, sweet girl, for here are none</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>but friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>What Roman lord it was durst do the deed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>Or slunk not Saturnine, as Tarquin erst,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>That left the camp to sin in Lucrece' bed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>Sit down, sweet niece: brother, sit down by me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>Apollo, Pallas, Jove, or Mercury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>Inspire me, that I may this treason find!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>My lord, look here: look here, Lavinia:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>This sandy plot is plain; guide, if thou canst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>This after me, when I have writ my name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>Without the help of any hand at all.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He writes his name with his staff, and guides it with feet and mouth</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73>Cursed be that heart that forced us to this shift!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74>Write thou good niece; and here display, at last,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>What God will have discover'd for revenge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>Heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>That we may know the traitors and the truth!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>She takes the staff in her mouth, and guides it with her stumps, and writes</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>O, do ye read, my lord, what she hath writ?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>'Stuprum. Chiron. Demetrius.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>What, what! the lustful sons of Tamora</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>Performers of this heinous, bloody deed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>Magni Dominator poli,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>Tam lentus audis scelera? tam lentus vides?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>O, calm thee, gentle lord; although I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>There is enough written upon this earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>To stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>And arm the minds of infants to exclaims.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>My lord, kneel down with me; Lavinia, kneel;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>And kneel, sweet boy, the Roman Hector's hope;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>And swear with me, as, with the woful fere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>And father of that chaste dishonour'd dame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>Lord Junius Brutus sware for Lucrece' rape,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93>That we will prosecute by good advice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.95>And see their blood, or die with this reproach.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.96>'Tis sure enough, an you knew how.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.97>But if you hunt these bear-whelps, then beware:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.98>The dam will wake; and, if she wind you once,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.99>She's with the lion deeply still in league,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.100>And lulls him whilst she playeth on her back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.101>And when he sleeps will she do what she list.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.102>You are a young huntsman, Marcus; let it alone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.103>And, come, I will go get a leaf of brass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.104>And with a gad of steel will write these words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.105>And lay it by: the angry northern wind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.106>Will blow these sands, like Sibyl's leaves, abroad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.107>And where's your lesson, then? Boy, what say you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Young LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.108>I say, my lord, that if I were a man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.109>Their mother's bed-chamber should not be safe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.110>For these bad bondmen to the yoke of Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.111>Ay, that's my boy! thy father hath full oft</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.112>For his ungrateful country done the like.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Young LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.113>And, uncle, so will I, an if I live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.114>Come, go with me into mine armoury;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.115>Lucius, I'll fit thee; and withal, my boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.116>Shalt carry from me to the empress' sons</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.117>Presents that I intend to send them both:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.118>Come, come; thou'lt do thy message, wilt thou not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Young LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.119>Ay, with my dagger in their bosoms, grandsire.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.120>No, boy, not so; I'll teach thee another course.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.121>Lavinia, come. Marcus, look to my house:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.122>Lucius and I'll go brave it at the court:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.123>Ay, marry, will we, sir; and we'll be waited on.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt TITUS, LAVINIA, and Young LUCIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.124>O heavens, can you hear a good man groan,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.125>And not relent, or not compassion him?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.126>Marcus, attend him in his ecstasy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.127>That hath more scars of sorrow in his heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.128>Than foemen's marks upon his batter'd shield;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.129>But yet so just that he will not revenge.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.130>Revenge, ye heavens, for old Andronicus!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The same. A room in the palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter, from one side, AARON, DEMETRIUS, and CHIRON; from the other side, Young LUCIUS, and an Attendant, with a bundle of weapons, and verses writ upon them</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>Demetrius, here's the son of Lucius;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>He hath some message to deliver us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>Ay, some mad message from his mad grandfather.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Young LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>My lords, with all the humbleness I may,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>I greet your honours from Andronicus.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>And pray the Roman gods confound you both!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>Gramercy, lovely Lucius: what's the news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Young LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>[Aside] That you are both decipher'd, that's the news,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>For villains mark'd with rape.--May it please you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>My grandsire, well advised, hath sent by me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>The goodliest weapons of his armoury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>To gratify your honourable youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>The hope of Rome; for so he bade me say;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>And so I do, and with his gifts present</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>Your lordships, that, whenever you have need,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>You may be armed and appointed well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>And so I leave you both:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>like bloody villains.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Young LUCIUS, and Attendant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>What's here? A scroll; and written round about?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>Let's see;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>'Integer vitae, scelerisque purus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>Non eget Mauri jaculis, nec arcu.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>O, 'tis a verse in Horace; I know it well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>I read it in the grammar long ago.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>Ay, just; a verse in Horace; right, you have it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>Now, what a thing it is to be an ass!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>Here's no sound jest! the old man hath found their guilt;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>And sends them weapons wrapped about with lines,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>That wound, beyond their feeling, to the quick.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>But were our witty empress well afoot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>She would applaud Andronicus' conceit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>But let her rest in her unrest awhile.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>And now, young lords, was't not a happy star</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>Led us to Rome, strangers, and more than so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>Captives, to be advanced to this height?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>It did me good, before the palace gate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>To brave the tribune in his brother's hearing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>But me more good, to see so great a lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>Basely insinuate and send us gifts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>Had he not reason, Lord Demetrius?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>Did you not use his daughter very friendly?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>I would we had a thousand Roman dames</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>At such a bay, by turn to serve our lust.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>A charitable wish and full of love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>Here lacks but your mother for to say amen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>And that would she for twenty thousand more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>Come, let us go; and pray to all the gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>For our beloved mother in her pains.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>[Aside] Pray to the devils; the gods have given us over.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Trumpets sound within</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>Belike, for joy the emperor hath a son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>Soft! who comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Nurse, with a blackamoor Child in her arms</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Nurse</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>Good morr ow, lords:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>O, tell me, did you see Aaron the Moor?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55>Well, more or less, or ne'er a whit at all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56>Here Aaron is; and what with Aaron now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Nurse</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.57>O gentle Aaron, we are all undone!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.58>Now help, or woe betide thee evermore!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.59>Why, what a caterwauling dost thou keep!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.60>What dost thou wrap and fumble in thine arms?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Nurse</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.61>O, that which I would hide from heaven's eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.62>Our empress' shame, and stately Rome's disgrace!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.63>She is deliver'd, lords; she is deliver'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.64>To whom?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Nurse</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.65> I mean, she is brought a-bed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.66>Well, God give her good rest! What hath he sent her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Nurse</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.67>A devil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.68>Why, then she is the devil's dam; a joyful issue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Nurse</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.69>A joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.70>Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.71>Amongst the fairest breeders of our clime:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.72>The empress sends it thee, thy stamp, thy seal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.73>And bids thee christen it with thy dagger's point.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.74>'Zounds, ye whore! is black so base a hue?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.75>Sweet blowse, you are a beauteous blossom, sure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.76>Villain, what hast thou done?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.77>That which thou canst not undo.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.78>Thou hast undone our mother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.79>Villain, I have done thy mother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.80>And therein, hellish dog, thou hast undone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.81>Woe to her chance, and damn'd her loathed choice!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.82>Accursed the offspring of so foul a fiend!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.83>It shall not live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.84>It shall not die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Nurse</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.85>Aaron, it must; the mother wills it so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.86>What, must it, nurse? then let no man but I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.87>Do execution on my flesh and blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.88>I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.89>Nurse, give it me; my sword shall soon dispatch it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.90>Sooner this sword shall plough thy bowels up.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Takes the Child from the Nurse, and draws</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.91>Stay, murderous villains! will you kill your brother?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.92>Now, by the burning tapers of the sky,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.93>That shone so brightly when this boy was got,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.94>He dies upon my scimitar's sharp point</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.95>That touches this my first-born son and heir!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.96>I tell you, younglings, not Enceladus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.97>With all his threatening band of Typhon's brood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.98>Nor great Alcides, nor the god of war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.99>Shall seize this prey out of his father's hands.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.100>What, what, ye sanguine, shallow-hearted boys!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.101>Ye white-limed walls! ye alehouse painted signs!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.102>Coal-black is better than another hue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.103>In that it scorns to bear another hue;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.104>For all the water in the ocean</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.105>Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.106>Although she lave them hourly in the flood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.107>Tell the empress from me, I am of age</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.108>To keep mine own, excuse it how she can.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.109>Wilt thou betray thy noble mistress thus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.110>My mistress is my mistress; this myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.111>The vigour and the picture of my youth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.112>This before all the world do I prefer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.113>This maugre all the world will I keep safe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.114>Or some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.115>By this our mother is forever shamed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.116>Rome will despise her for this foul escape.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>Nurse</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.117>The emperor, in his rage, will doom her death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.118>I blush to think upon this ignomy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.119>Why, there's the privilege your beauty bears:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.120>Fie, treacherous hue, that will betray with blushing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.121>The close enacts and counsels of the heart!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.122>Here's a young lad framed of another leer:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.123>Look, how the black slave smiles upon the father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.124>As who should say 'Old lad, I am thine own.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.125>He is your brother, lords, sensibly fed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.126>Of that self-blood that first gave life to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.127>And from that womb where you imprison'd were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.128>He is enfranchised and come to light:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.129>Nay, he is your brother by the surer side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.130>Although my seal be stamped in his face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>Nurse</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.131>Aaron, what shall I say unto the empress?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.132>Advise thee, Aaron, what is to be done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.133>And we will all subscribe to thy advice:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.134>Save thou the child, so we may all be safe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.135>Then sit we down, and let us all consult.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.136>My son and I will have the wind of you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.137>Keep there: now talk at pleasure of your safety.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They sit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.138>How many women saw this child of his?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.139>Why, so, brave lords! when we join in league,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.140>I am a lamb: but if you brave the Moor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.141>The chafed boar, the mountain lioness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.142>The ocean swells not so as Aaron storms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.143>But say, again; how many saw the child?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>Nurse</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.144>Cornelia the midwife and myself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.145>And no one else but the deliver'd empress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.146>The empress, the midwife, and yourself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.147>Two may keep counsel when the third's away:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.148>Go to the empress, tell her this I said.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He kills the nurse</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.149>Weke, weke! so cries a pig prepared to the spit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.150>What mean'st thou, Aaron? wherefore didst thou this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.151>O Lord, sir, 'tis a deed of policy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.152>Shall she live to betray this guilt of ours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.153>A long-tongued babbling gossip? no, lords, no:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.154>And now be it known to you my full intent.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.155>Not far, one Muli lives, my countryman;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.156>His wife but yesternight was brought to bed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.157>His child is like to her, fair as you are:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.158>Go pack with him, and give the mother gold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.159>And tell them both the circumstance of all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.160>And how by this their child shall be advanced,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.161>And be received for the emperor's heir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.162>And substituted in the place of mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.163>To calm this tempest whirling in the court;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.164>And let the emperor dandle him for his own.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.165>Hark ye, lords; ye see I have given her physic,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Pointing to the nurse</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.166>And you must needs bestow her funeral;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.167>The fields are near, and you are gallant grooms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.168>This done, see that you take no longer days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.169>But send the midwife presently to me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.170>The midwife and the nurse well made away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.171>Then let the ladies tattle what they please.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.172>Aaron, I see thou wilt not trust the air</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.173>With secrets.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.174> For this care of Tamora,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.175>Herself and hers are highly bound to thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON bearing off the Nurse's body</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.176>Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.177>There to dispose this treasure in mine arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.178>And secretly to greet the empress' friends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.179>Come on, you thick lipp'd slave, I'll bear you hence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.180>For it is you that puts us to our shifts:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.181>I'll make you feed on berries and on roots,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.182>And feed on curds and whey, and suck the goat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.183>And cabin in a cave, and bring you up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.184>To be a warrior, and command a camp.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The same. A public place.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TITUS, bearing arrows with letters at the ends of them; with him, MARCUS, Young LUCIUS, PUBLIUS, SEMPRONIUS, CAIUS, and other Gentlemen, with bows</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>Come, Marcus; come, kinsmen; this is the way.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>Sir boy, now let me see your archery;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>Look ye draw home enough, and 'tis there straight.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>Terras Astraea reliquit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>Be you remember'd, Marcus, she's gone, she's fled.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>Sirs, take you to your tools. You, cousins, shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>Go sound the ocean, and cast your nets;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>Happily you may catch her in the sea;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>Yet there's as little justice as at land:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>No; Publius and Sempronius, you must do it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>'Tis you must dig with mattock and with spade,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>And pierce the inmost centre of the earth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>Then, when you come to Pluto's region,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>I pray you, deliver him this petition;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>Tell him, it is for justice and for aid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>And that it comes from old Andronicus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17>Shaken with sorrows in ungrateful Rome.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>Ah, Rome! Well, well; I made thee miserable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.19>What time I threw the people's suffrages</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.20>On him that thus doth tyrannize o'er me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.21>Go, get you gone; and pray be careful all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.22>And leave you not a man-of-war unsearch'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.23>This wicked emperor may have shipp'd her hence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.24>And, kinsmen, then we may go pipe for justice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.25>O Publius, is not this a heavy case,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.26>To see thy noble uncle thus distract?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PUBLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.27>Therefore, my lord, it highly us concerns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.28>By day and night to attend him carefully,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.29>And feed his humour kindly as we may,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.30>Till time beget some careful remedy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.31>Kinsmen, his sorrows are past remedy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.32>Join with the Goths; and with revengeful war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.33>Take wreak on Rome for this ingratitude,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.34>And vengeance on the traitor Saturnine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.35>Publius, how now! how now, my masters!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.36>What, have you met with her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PUBLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.37>No, my good lord; but Pluto sends you word,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.38>If you will have Revenge from hell, you shall:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.39>Marry, for Justice, she is so employ'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.40>He thinks, with Jove in heaven, or somewhere else,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.41>So that perforce you must needs stay a time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.42>He doth me wrong to feed me with delays.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.43>I'll dive into the burning lake below,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.44>And pull her out of Acheron by the heels.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.45>Marcus, we are but shrubs, no cedars we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.46>No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.47>But metal, Marcus, steel to the very back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.48>Yet wrung with wrongs more than our backs can bear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.49>And, sith there's no justice in earth nor hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.50>We will solicit heaven and move the gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.51>To send down Justice for to wreak our wrongs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.52>Come, to this gear. You are a good archer, Marcus;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He gives them the arrows</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.53>'Ad Jovem,' that's for you: here, 'Ad Apollinem:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.54>'Ad Martem,' that's for myself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.55>Here, boy, to Pallas: here, to Mercury:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.56>To Saturn, Caius, not to Saturnine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.57>You were as good to shoot against the wind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.58>To it, boy! Marcus, loose when I bid.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.59>Of my word, I have written to effect;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.60>There's not a god left unsolicited.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.61>Kinsmen, shoot all your shafts into the court:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.62>We will afflict the emperor in his pride.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.63>Now, masters, draw.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They shoot</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.64>O, well said, Lucius!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.65>Good boy, in Virgo's lap; give it Pallas.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.66>My lord, I aim a mile beyond the moon;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.67>Your letter is with Jupiter by this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.68>Ha, ha!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.69>Publius, Publius, what hast thou done?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.70>See, see, thou hast shot off one of Taurus' horns.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.71>This was the sport, my lord: when Publius shot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.72>The Bull, being gall'd, gave Aries such a knock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.73>That down fell both the Ram's horns in the court;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.74>And who should find them but the empress' villain?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.75>She laugh'd, and told the Moor he should not choose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.76>But give them to his master for a present.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.77>Why, there it goes: God give his lordship joy!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Clown, with a basket, and two pigeons in it</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.78>News, news from heaven! Marcus, the post is come.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.79>Sirrah, what tidings? have you any letters?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.80>Shall I have justice? what says Jupiter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.81>O, the gibbet-maker! he says that he hath taken</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.82>them down again, for the man must not be hanged till</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.83>the next week.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.84>But what says Jupiter, I ask thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.85>Alas, sir, I know not Jupiter; I never drank with him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.86>in all my life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.87>Why, villain, art not thou the carrier?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.88>Ay, of my pigeons, sir; nothing else.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.89>Why, didst thou not come from heaven?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.90>From heaven! alas, sir, I never came there God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.91>forbid I should be so bold to press to heaven in my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.92>young days. Why, I am going with my pigeons to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.93>tribunal plebs, to take up a matter of brawl</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.94>betwixt my uncle and one of the emperial's men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.95>Why, sir, that is as fit as can be to serve for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.96>your oration; and let him deliver the pigeons to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.97>the emperor from you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.98>Tell me, can you deliver an oration to the emperor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.99>with a grace?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.100>Nay, truly, sir, I could never say grace in all my life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.101>Sirrah, come hither: make no more ado,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.102>But give your pigeons to the emperor:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.103>By me thou shalt have justice at his hands.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.104>Hold, hold; meanwhile here's money for thy charges.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.105>Give me pen and ink. Sirrah, can you with a grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.106>deliver a supplication?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.107>Ay, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.108>Then here is a supplication for you. And when you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.109>come to him, at the first approach you must kneel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.110>then kiss his foot, then deliver up your pigeons, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.111>then look for your reward. I'll be at hand, sir; see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.112>you do it bravely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.113>I warrant you, sir, let me alone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.114>Sirrah, hast thou a knife? come, let me see it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.115>Here, Marcus, fold it in the oration;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.116>For thou hast made it like an humble suppliant.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.117>And when thou hast given it the emperor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.118>Knock at my door, and tell me what he says.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.119>God be with you, sir; I will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.120>Come, Marcus, let us go. Publius, follow me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. The same. Before the palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SATURNINUS, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, Lords, and others; SATURNINUS with the arrows in his hand that TITUS shot</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.1>Why, lords, what wrongs are these! was ever seen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.2>An emperor in Rome thus overborne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.3>Troubled, confronted thus; and, for the extent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.4>Of egal justice, used in such contempt?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.5>My lords, you know, as know the mightful gods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.6>However these disturbers of our peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.7>Buz in the people's ears, there nought hath pass'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.8>But even with law, against the willful sons</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.9>Of old Andronicus. And what an if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.10>His sorrows have so overwhelm'd his wits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.11>Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.12>His fits, his frenzy, and his bitterness?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.13>And now he writes to heaven for his redress:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.14>See, here's to Jove, and this to Mercury;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.15>This to Apollo; this to the god of war;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.16>Sweet scrolls to fly about the streets of Rome!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.17>What's this but libelling against the senate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.18>And blazoning our injustice every where?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.19>A goodly humour, is it not, my lords?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.20>As who would say, in Rome no justice were.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.21>But if I live, his feigned ecstasies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.22>Shall be no shelter to these outrages:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.23>But he and his shall know that justice lives</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.24>In Saturninus' health, whom, if she sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.25>He'll so awake as she in fury shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.26>Cut off the proud'st conspirator that lives.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.27>My gracious lord, my lovely Saturnine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.28>Lord of my life, commander of my thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.29>Calm thee, and bear the faults of Titus' age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.30>The effects of sorrow for his valiant sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.31>Whose loss hath pierced him deep and scarr'd his heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.32>And rather comfort his distressed plight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.33>Than prosecute the meanest or the best</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.34>For these contempts.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.35>Why, thus it shall become</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.36>High-witted Tamora to gloze with all:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.37>But, Titus, I have touched thee to the quick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.38>Thy life-blood out: if Aaron now be wise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.39>Then is all safe, the anchor's in the port.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Clown</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.40>How now, good fellow! wouldst thou speak with us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.41>Yea, forsooth, an your mistership be emperial.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.42>Empress I am, but yonder sits the emperor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.43>'Tis he. God and Saint Stephen give you good den:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.44>I have brought you a letter and a couple of pigeons here.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>SATURNINUS reads the letter</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.45>Go, take him away, and hang him presently.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.46>How much money must I have?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.47>Come, sirrah, you must be hanged.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.48>Hanged! by'r lady, then I have brought up a neck to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.49>a fair end.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit, guarded</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.50>Despiteful and intolerable wrongs!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.51>Shall I endure this monstrous villany?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.52>I know from whence this same device proceeds:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.53>May this be borne?--as if his traitorous sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.54>That died by law for murder of our brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.55>Have by my means been butcher'd wrongfully!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.56>Go, drag the villain hither by the hair;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.57>Nor age nor honour shall shape privilege:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.58>For this proud mock I'll be thy slaughterman;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.59>Sly frantic wretch, that holp'st to make me great,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.60>In hope thyself should govern Rome and me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter AEMILIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.61>What news with thee, AEmilius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>AEMILIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.62>Arm, arm, my lord;--Rome never had more cause.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.63>The Goths have gather'd head; and with a power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.64>high-resolved men, bent to the spoil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.65>They hither march amain, under conduct</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.66>Of Lucius, son to old Andronicus;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.67>Who threats, in course of this revenge, to do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.68>As much as ever Coriolanus did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.69>Is warlike Lucius general of the Goths?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.70>These tidings nip me, and I hang the head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.71>As flowers with frost or grass beat down with storms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.72>Ay, now begin our sorrows to approach:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.73>'Tis he the common people love so much;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.74>Myself hath often over-heard them say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.75>When I have walked like a private man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.76>That Lucius' banishment was wrongfully,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.77>And they have wish'd that Lucius were their emperor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.78>Why should you fear? is not your city strong?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.79>Ay, but the citizens favor Lucius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.80>And will revolt from me to succor him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.81>King, be thy thoughts imperious, like thy name.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.82>Is the sun dimm'd, that gnats do fly in it?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.83>The eagle suffers little birds to sing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.84>And is not careful what they mean thereby,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.85>Knowing that with the shadow of his wings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.86>He can at pleasure stint their melody:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.87>Even so mayst thou the giddy men of Rome.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.88>Then cheer thy spirit : for know, thou emperor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.89>I will enchant the old Andronicus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.90>With words more sweet, and yet more dangerous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.91>Than baits to fish, or honey-stalks to sheep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.92>When as the one is wounded with the bait,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.93>The other rotted with delicious feed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.94>But he will not entreat his son for us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.95>If Tamora entreat him, then he will:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.96>For I can smooth and fill his aged ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.97>With golden promises; that, were his heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.98>Almost impregnable, his old ears deaf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.99>Yet should both ear and heart obey my tongue.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To AEmilius</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.100>Go thou before, be our ambassador:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.101>Say that the emperor requests a parley</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.102>Of warlike Lucius, and appoint the meeting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.103>Even at his father's house, the old Andronicus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.104>AEmilius, do this message honourably:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.105>And if he stand on hostage for his safety,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.106>Bid him demand what pledge will please him best.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>AEMILIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.107>Your bidding shall I do effectually.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.108>Now will I to that old Andronicus;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.109>And temper him with all the art I have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.110>To pluck proud Lucius from the warlike Goths.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.111>And now, sweet emperor, be blithe again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.112>And bury all thy fear in my devices.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.113>Then go successantly, and plead to him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Plains near Rome.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LUCIUS with an army of Goths, with drum and colours</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>Approved warriors, and my faithful friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>I have received letters from great Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>Which signify what hate they bear their emperor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>And how desirous of our sight they are.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>Imperious and impatient of your wrongs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>And wherein Rome hath done you any scath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>Let him make treble satisfaction.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Goth</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>Brave slip, sprung from the great Andronicus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>Whose name was once our terror, now our comfort;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>Whose high exploits and honourable deeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>Ingrateful Rome requites with foul contempt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>Be bold in us: we'll follow where thou lead'st,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>Like stinging bees in hottest summer's day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>Led by their master to the flowered fields,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>And be avenged on cursed Tamora.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>All the Goths</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>And as he saith, so say we all with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>I humbly thank him, and I thank you all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>But who comes here, led by a lusty Goth?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Goth, leading AARON with his Child in his arms</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Second Goth</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>Renowned Lucius, from our troops I stray'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>To gaze upon a ruinous monastery;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>And, as I earnestly did fix mine eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>Upon the wasted building, suddenly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>I heard a child cry underneath a wall.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>I made unto the noise; when soon I heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>The crying babe controll'd with this discourse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>'Peace, tawny slave, half me and half thy dam!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>Did not thy hue bewray whose brat thou art,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>Had nature lent thee but thy mother's look,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>Villain, thou mightst have been an emperor:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>But where the bull and cow are both milk-white,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>They never do beget a coal-black calf.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>Peace, villain, peace!'--even thus he rates</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>the babe,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>'For I must bear thee to a trusty Goth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>Who, when he knows thou art the empress' babe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>Will hold thee dearly for thy mother's sake.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>With this, my weapon drawn, I rush'd upon him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>Surprised him suddenly, and brought him hither,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>To use as you think needful of the man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>O worthy Goth, this is the incarnate devil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>That robb'd Andronicus of his good hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>This is the pearl that pleased your empress' eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>And here's the base fruit of his burning lust.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>Say, wall-eyed slave, whither wouldst thou convey</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>This growing image of thy fiend-like face?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>Why dost not speak? what, deaf? not a word?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>A halter, soldiers! hang him on this tree.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>And by his side his fruit of bastardy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>Touch not the boy; he is of royal blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>Too like the sire for ever being good.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>First hang the child, that he may see it sprawl;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>A sight to vex the father's soul withal.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>Get me a ladder.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A ladder brought, which AARON is made to ascend</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55> Lucius, save the child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>And bear it from me to the empress.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>If thou do this, I'll show thee wondrous things,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>That highly may advantage thee to hear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60>I'll speak no more but 'Vengeance rot you all!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>Say on: an if it please me which thou speak'st</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>Thy child shall live, and I will see it nourish'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>An if it please thee! why, assure thee, Lucius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.64>'Twill vex thy soul to hear what I shall speak;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.65>For I must talk of murders, rapes and massacres,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.66>Acts of black night, abominable deeds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.67>Complots of mischief, treason, villanies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.68>Ruthful to hear, yet piteously perform'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.69>And this shall all be buried by my death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.70>Unless thou swear to me my child shall live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.71>Tell on thy mind; I say thy child shall live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.72>Swear that he shall, and then I will begin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.73>Who should I swear by? thou believest no god:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.74>That granted, how canst thou believe an oath?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.75>What if I do not? as, indeed, I do not;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.76>Yet, for I know thou art religious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.77>And hast a thing within thee called conscience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.78>With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.79>Which I have seen thee careful to observe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.80>Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.81>An idiot holds his bauble for a god</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.82>And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.83>To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.84>By that same god, what god soe'er it be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.85>That thou adorest and hast in reverence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.86>To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.87>Or else I will discover nought to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.88>Even by my god I swear to thee I will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.89>First know thou, I begot him on the empress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.90>O most insatiate and luxurious woman!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.91>Tut, Lucius, this was but a deed of charity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.92>To that which thou shalt hear of me anon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.93>'Twas her two sons that murder'd Bassianus;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.94>They cut thy sister's tongue and ravish'd her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.95>And cut her hands and trimm'd her as thou saw'st.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.96>O detestable villain! call'st thou that trimming?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.97>Why, she was wash'd and cut and trimm'd, and 'twas</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.98>Trim sport for them that had the doing of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.99>O barbarous, beastly villains, like thyself!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.100>Indeed, I was their tutor to instruct them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.101>That codding spirit had they from their mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.102>As sure a card as ever won the set;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.103>That bloody mind, I think, they learn'd of me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.104>As true a dog as ever fought at head.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.105>Well, let my deeds be witness of my worth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.106>I train'd thy brethren to that guileful hole</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.107>Where the dead corpse of Bassianus lay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.108>I wrote the letter that thy father found</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.109>And hid the gold within the letter mention'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.110>Confederate with the queen and her two sons:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.111>And what not done, that thou hast cause to rue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.112>Wherein I had no stroke of mischief in it?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.113>I play'd the cheater for thy father's hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.114>And, when I had it, drew myself apart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.115>And almost broke my heart with extreme laughter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.116>I pry'd me through the crevice of a wall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.117>When, for his hand, he had his two sons' heads;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.118>Beheld his tears, and laugh'd so heartily,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.119>That both mine eyes were rainy like to his :</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.120>And when I told the empress of this sport,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.121>She swooned almost at my pleasing tale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.122>And for my tidings gave me twenty kisses.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>First Goth</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.123>What, canst thou say all this, and never blush?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.124>Ay, like a black dog, as the saying is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.125>Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.126>Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.127>Even now I curse the day--and yet, I think,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.128>Few come within the compass of my curse,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.129>Wherein I did not some notorious ill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.130>As kill a man, or else devise his death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.131>Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.132>Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.133>Set deadly enmity between two friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.134>Make poor men's cattle break their necks;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.135>Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.136>And bid the owners quench them with their tears.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.137>Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.138>And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.139>Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.140>And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.141>Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.142>'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.143>Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.144>As willingly as one would kill a fly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.145>And nothing grieves me heartily indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.146>But that I cannot do ten thousand more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.147>Bring down the devil; for he must not die</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.148>So sweet a death as hanging presently.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.149>If there be devils, would I were a devil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.150>To live and burn in everlasting fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.151>So I might have your company in hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.152>But to torment you with my bitter tongue!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.153>Sirs, stop his mouth, and let him speak no more.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Goth</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Third Goth</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.154>My lord, there is a messenger from Rome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.155>Desires to be admitted to your presence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.156>Let him come near.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter AEMILIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.157>Welcome, AEmilius what's the news from Rome?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>AEMILIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.158>Lord Lucius, and you princes of the Goths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.159>The Roman emperor greets you all by me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.160>And, for he understands you are in arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.161>He craves a parley at your father's house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.162>Willing you to demand your hostages,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.163>And they shall be immediately deliver'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>First Goth</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.164>What says our general?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.165>AEmilius, let the emperor give his pledges</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.166>Unto my father and my uncle Marcus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.167>And we will come. March away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Rome. Before TITUS's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, and CHIRON, disguised</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>Thus, in this strange and sad habiliment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>I will encounter with Andronicus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>And say I am Revenge, sent from below</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>To join with him and right his heinous wrongs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>Tell him Revenge is come to join with him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>And work confusion on his enemies.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They knock</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter TITUS, above</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>Who doth molest my contemplation?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>Is it your trick to make me ope the door,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>That so my sad decrees may fly away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>And all my study be to no effect?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>You are deceived: for what I mean to do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>See here in bloody lines I have set down;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>And what is written shall be executed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>Titus, I am come to talk with thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>No, not a word; how can I grace my talk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>Wanting a hand to give it action?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>Thou hast the odds of me; therefore no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>If thou didst know me, thou wouldest talk with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>I am not mad; I know thee well enough:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>Witness this wretched stump, witness these crimson lines;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>Witness these trenches made by grief and care,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>Witness the tiring day and heavy night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.25>Witness all sorrow, that I know thee well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.26>For our proud empress, mighty Tamora:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.27>Is not thy coming for my other hand?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.28>Know, thou sad man, I am not Tamora;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.29>She is thy enemy, and I thy friend:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.30>I am Revenge: sent from the infernal kingdom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.31>To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.32>By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.33>Come down, and welcome me to this world's light;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.34>Confer with me of murder and of death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.35>There's not a hollow cave or lurking-place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.36>No vast obscurity or misty vale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.37>Where bloody murder or detested rape</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.38>Can couch for fear, but I will find them out;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.39>And in their ears tell them my dreadful name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.40>Revenge, which makes the foul offender quake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.41>Art thou Revenge? and art thou sent to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.42>To be a torment to mine enemies?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.43>I am; therefore come down, and welcome me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.44>Do me some service, ere I come to thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.45>Lo, by thy side where Rape and Murder stands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.46>Now give me some surance that thou art Revenge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.47>Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot-wheels;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.48>And then I'll come and be thy waggoner,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.49>And whirl along with thee about the globe.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.50>Provide thee two proper palfreys, black as jet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.51>To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.52>And find out murderers in their guilty caves:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.53>And when thy car is loaden with their heads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.54>I will dismount, and by the waggon-wheel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.55>Trot, like a servile footman, all day long,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.56>Even from Hyperion's rising in the east</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.57>Until his very downfall in the sea:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.58>And day by day I'll do this heavy task,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.59>So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.60>These are my ministers, and come with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.61>Are these thy ministers? what are they call'd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.62>Rapine and Murder; therefore called so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.63>Cause they take vengeance of such kind of men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.64>Good Lord, how like the empress' sons they are!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.65>And you, the empress! but we worldly men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.66>Have miserable, mad, mistaking eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.67>O sweet Revenge, now do I come to thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.68>And, if one arm's embracement will content thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.69>I will embrace thee in it by and by.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit above</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.70>This closing with him fits his lunacy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.71>Whate'er I forge to feed his brain-sick fits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.72>Do you uphold and maintain in your speeches,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.73>For now he firmly takes me for Revenge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.74>And, being credulous in this mad thought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.75>I'll make him send for Lucius his son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.76>And, whilst I at a banquet hold him sure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.77>I'll find some cunning practise out of hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.78>To scatter and disperse the giddy Goths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.79>Or, at the least, make them his enemies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.80>See, here he comes, and I must ply my theme.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter TITUS below</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.81>Long have I been forlorn, and all for thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.82>Welcome, dread Fury, to my woful house:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.83>Rapine and Murder, you are welcome too.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.84>How like the empress and her sons you are!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.85>Well are you fitted, had you but a Moor:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.86>Could not all hell afford you such a devil?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.87>For well I wot the empress never wags</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.88>But in her company there is a Moor;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.89>And, would you represent our queen aright,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.90>It were convenient you had such a devil:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.91>But welcome, as you are. What shall we do?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.92>What wouldst thou have us do, Andronicus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.93>Show me a murderer, I'll deal with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.94>Show me a villain that hath done a rape,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.95>And I am sent to be revenged on him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.96>Show me a thousand that have done thee wrong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.97>And I will be revenged on them all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.98>Look round about the wicked streets of Rome;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.99>And when thou find'st a man that's like thyself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.100>Good Murder, stab him; he's a murderer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.101>Go thou with him; and when it is thy hap</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.102>To find another that is like to thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.103>Good Rapine, stab him; he's a ravisher.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.104>Go thou with them; and in the emperor's court</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.105>There is a queen, attended by a Moor;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.106>Well mayst thou know her by thy own proportion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.107>for up and down she doth resemble thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.108>I pray thee, do on them some violent death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.109>They have been violent to me and mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.110>Well hast thou lesson'd us; this shall we do.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.111>But would it please thee, good Andronicus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.112>To send for Lucius, thy thrice-valiant son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.113>Who leads towards Rome a band of warlike Goths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.114>And bid him come and banquet at thy house;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.115>When he is here, even at thy solemn feast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.116>I will bring in the empress and her sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.117>The emperor himself and all thy foes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.118>And at thy mercy shalt they stoop and kneel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.119>And on them shalt thou ease thy angry heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.120>What says Andronicus to this device?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.121>Marcus, my brother! 'tis sad Titus calls.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MARCUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.122>Go, gentle Marcus, to thy nephew Lucius;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.123>Thou shalt inquire him out among the Goths:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.124>Bid him repair to me, and bring with him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.125>Some of the chiefest princes of the Goths;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.126>Bid him encamp his soldiers where they are:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.127>Tell him the emperor and the empress too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.128>Feast at my house, and he shall feast with them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.129>This do thou for my love; and so let him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.130>As he regards his aged father's life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.131>This will I do, and soon return again.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.132>Now will I hence about thy business,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.133>And take my ministers along with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.134>Nay, nay, let Rape and Murder stay with me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.135>Or else I'll call my brother back again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.136>And cleave to no revenge but Lucius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.137>[Aside to her sons] What say you, boys? will you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.138>bide with him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.139>Whiles I go tell my lord the emperor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.140>How I have govern'd our determined jest?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.141>Yield to his humour, smooth and speak him fair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.142>And tarry with him till I turn again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.143>[Aside] I know them all, though they suppose me mad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.144>And will o'erreach them in their own devices:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.145>A pair of cursed hell-hounds and their dam!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.146>Madam, depart at pleasure; leave us here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.147>Farewell, Andronicus: Revenge now goes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.148>To lay a complot to betray thy foes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.149>I know thou dost; and, sweet Revenge, farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit TAMORA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.150>Tell us, old man, how shall we be employ'd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.151>Tut, I have work enough for you to do.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.152>Publius, come hither, Caius, and Valentine!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PUBLIUS and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PUBLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.153>What is your will?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.154>Know you these two?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>PUBLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.155>The empress' sons, I take them, Chiron and Demetrius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.156>Fie, Publius, fie! thou art too much deceived;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.157>The one is Murder, Rape is the other's name;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.158>And therefore bind them, gentle Publius.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.159>Caius and Valentine, lay hands on them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.160>Oft have you heard me wish for such an hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.161>And now I find it; therefore bind them sure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.162>And stop their mouths, if they begin to cry.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>PUBLIUS, & c. lay hold on CHIRON and DEMETRIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.163>Villains, forbear! we are the empress' sons.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PUBLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.164>And therefore do we what we are commanded.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.165>Stop close their mouths, let them not speak a word.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.166>Is he sure bound? look that you bind them fast.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter TITUS, with LAVINIA; he bearing a knife, and she a basin</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.167>Come, come, Lavinia; look, thy foes are bound.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.168>Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.169>But let them hear what fearful words I utter.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.170>O villains, Chiron and Demetrius!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.171>Here stands the spring whom you have stain'd with mud,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.172>This goodly summer with your winter mix'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.173>You kill'd her husband, and for that vile fault</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.174>Two of her brothers were condemn'd to death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.175>My hand cut off and made a merry jest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.176>Both her sweet hands, her tongue, and that more dear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.177>Than hands or tongue, her spotless chastity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.178>Inhuman traitors, you constrain'd and forced.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.179>What would you say, if I should let you speak?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.180>Villains, for shame you could not beg for grace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.181>Hark, wretches! how I mean to martyr you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.182>This one hand yet is left to cut your throats,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.183>Whilst that Lavinia 'tween her stumps doth hold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.184>The basin that receives your guilty blood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.185>You know your mother means to feast with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.186>And calls herself Revenge, and thinks me mad:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.187>Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.188>And with your blood and it I'll make a paste,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.189>And of the paste a coffin I will rear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.190>And make two pasties of your shameful heads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.191>And bid that strumpet, your unhallow'd dam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.192>Like to the earth swallow her own increase.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.193>This is the feast that I have bid her to,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.194>And this the banquet she shall surfeit on;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.195>For worse than Philomel you used my daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.196>And worse than Progne I will be revenged:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.197>And now prepare your throats. Lavinia, come,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He cuts their throats</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.198>Receive the blood: and when that they are dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.199>Let me go grind their bones to powder small</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.200>And with this hateful liquor temper it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.201>And in that paste let their vile heads be baked.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.202>Come, come, be every one officious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.203>To make this banquet; which I wish may prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.204>More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.205>So, now bring them in, for I'll play the cook,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.206>And see them ready 'gainst their mother comes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt, bearing the dead bodies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Court of TITUS's house. A banquet set out.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LUCIUS, MARCUS, and Goths, with AARON prisoner</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>Uncle Marcus, since it is my father's mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>That I repair to Rome, I am content.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Goth</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>And ours with thine, befall what fortune will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4>Good uncle, take you in this barbarous Moor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>This ravenous tiger, this accursed devil;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>Let him receive no sustenance, fetter him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>Till he be brought unto the empress' face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>For testimony of her foul proceedings:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>And see the ambush of our friends be strong;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>I fear the emperor means no good to us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>Some devil whisper curses in mine ear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>And prompt me, that my tongue may utter forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>The venomous malice of my swelling heart!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>Away, inhuman dog! unhallow'd slave!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>Sirs, help our uncle to convey him in.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Goths, with AARON. Flourish within</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>The trumpets show the emperor is at hand.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SATURNINUS and TAMORA, with AEMILIUS, Tribunes, Senators, and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>What, hath the firmament more suns than one?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.18>What boots it thee to call thyself a sun?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.19>Rome's emperor, and nephew, break the parle;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.20>These quarrels must be quietly debated.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.21>The feast is ready, which the careful Titus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.22>Hath ordain'd to an honourable end,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.23>For peace, for love, for league, and good to Rome:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.24>Please you, therefore, draw nigh, and take your places.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.25>Marcus, we will.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Hautboys sound. The Company sit down at table</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter TITUS dressed like a Cook, LAVINIA veiled, Young LUCIUS, and others. TITUS places the dishes on the table</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.26>Welcome, my gracious lord; welcome, dread queen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.27>Welcome, ye warlike Goths; welcome, Lucius;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.28>And welcome, all: although the cheer be poor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.29>'Twill fill your stomachs; please you eat of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.30>Why art thou thus attired, Andronicus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.31>Because I would be sure to have all well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.32>To entertain your highness and your empress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.33>We are beholding to you, good Andronicus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.34>An if your highness knew my heart, you were.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.35>My lord the emperor, resolve me this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.36>Was it well done of rash Virginius</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.37>To slay his daughter with his own right hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.38>Because she was enforced, stain'd, and deflower'd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.39>It was, Andronicus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.40>Your reason, mighty lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.41>Because the girl should not survive her shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.42>And by her presence still renew his sorrows.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.43>A reason mighty, strong, and effectual;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.44>A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.45>For me, most wretched, to perform the like.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.46>Die, die, Lavinia, and thy shame with thee;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kills LAVINIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.47>And, with thy shame, thy father's sorrow die!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.48>What hast thou done, unnatural and unkind?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.49>Kill'd her, for whom my tears have made me blind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.50>I am as woful as Virginius was,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.51>And have a thousand times more cause than he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.52>To do this outrage: and it now is done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.53>What, was she ravish'd? tell who did the deed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.54>Will't please you eat? will't please your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.55>highness feed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.56>Why hast thou slain thine only daughter thus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.57>Not I; 'twas Chiron and Demetrius:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.58>They ravish'd her, and cut away her tongue;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.59>And they, 'twas they, that did her all this wrong.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.60>Go fetch them hither to us presently.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.61>Why, there they are both, baked in that pie;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.62>Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.63>Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.64>'Tis true, 'tis true; witness my knife's sharp point.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kills TAMORA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SATURNINUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.65>Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kills TITUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.66>Can the son's eye behold his father bleed?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.67>There's meed for meed, death for a deadly deed!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kills SATURNINUS. A great tumult. LUCIUS, MARCUS, and others go up into the balcony</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.68>You sad-faced men, people and sons of Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.69>By uproar sever'd, like a flight of fowl</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.70>Scatter'd by winds and high tempestuous gusts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.71>O, let me teach you how to knit again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.72>This scatter'd corn into one mutual sheaf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.73>These broken limbs again into one body;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.74>Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.75>And she whom mighty kingdoms court'sy to,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.76>Like a forlorn and desperate castaway,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.77>Do shameful execution on herself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.78>But if my frosty signs and chaps of age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.79>Grave witnesses of true experience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.80>Cannot induce you to attend my words,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To LUCIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.81>Speak, Rome's dear friend, as erst our ancestor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.82>When with his solemn tongue he did discourse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.83>To love-sick Dido's sad attending ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.84>The story of that baleful burning night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.85>When subtle Greeks surprised King Priam's Troy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.86>Tell us what Sinon hath bewitch'd our ears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.87>Or who hath brought the fatal engine in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.88>That gives our Troy, our Rome, the civil wound.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.89>My heart is not compact of flint nor steel;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.90>Nor can I utter all our bitter grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.91>But floods of tears will drown my oratory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.92>And break my utterance, even in the time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.93>When it should move you to attend me most,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.94>Lending your kind commiseration.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.95>Here is a captain, let him tell the tale;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.96>Your hearts will throb and weep to hear him speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.97>Then, noble auditory, be it known to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.98>That cursed Chiron and Demetrius</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.99>Were they that murdered our emperor's brother;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.100>And they it were that ravished our sister:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.101>For their fell faults our brothers were beheaded;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.102>Our father's tears despised, and basely cozen'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.103>Of that true hand that fought Rome's quarrel out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.104>And sent her enemies unto the grave.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.105>Lastly, myself unkindly banished,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.106>The gates shut on me, and turn'd weeping out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.107>To beg relief among Rome's enemies:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.108>Who drown'd their enmity in my true tears.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.109>And oped their arms to embrace me as a friend.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.110>I am the turned forth, be it known to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.111>That have preserved her welfare in my blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.112>And from her bosom took the enemy's point,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.113>Sheathing the steel in my adventurous body.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.114>Alas, you know I am no vaunter, I;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.115>My scars can witness, dumb although they are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.116>That my report is just and full of truth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.117>But, soft! methinks I do digress too much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.118>Citing my worthless praise: O, pardon me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.119>For when no friends are by, men praise themselves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.120>Now is my turn to speak. Behold this child:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Pointing to the Child in the arms of an Attendant</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.121>Of this was Tamora delivered;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.122>The issue of an irreligious Moor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.123>Chief architect and plotter of these woes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.124>The villain is alive in Titus' house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.125>And as he is, to witness this is true.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.126>Now judge what cause had Titus to revenge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.127>These wrongs, unspeakable, past patience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.128>Or more than any living man could bear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.129>Now you have heard the truth, what say you, Romans?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.130>Have we done aught amiss,--show us wherein,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.131>And, from the place where you behold us now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.132>The poor remainder of Andronici</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.133>Will, hand in hand, all headlong cast us down.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.134>And on the ragged stones beat forth our brains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.135>And make a mutual closure of our house.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.136>Speak, Romans, speak; and if you say we shall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.137>Lo, hand in hand, Lucius and I will fall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>AEMILIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.138>Come, come, thou reverend man of Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.139>And bring our emperor gently in thy hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.140>Lucius our emperor; for well I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.141>The common voice do cry it shall be so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.142>Lucius, all hail, Rome's royal emperor!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.143>Go, go into old Titus' sorrowful house,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To Attendants</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.144>And hither hale that misbelieving Moor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.145>To be adjudged some direful slaughtering death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.146>As punishment for his most wicked life.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Attendants</i></p> | |
| <p><i>LUCIUS, MARCUS, and the others descend</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.147>Lucius, all hail, Rome's gracious governor!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.148>Thanks, gentle Romans: may I govern so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.149>To heal Rome's harms, and wipe away her woe!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.150>But, gentle people, give me aim awhile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.151>For nature puts me to a heavy task:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.152>Stand all aloof: but, uncle, draw you near,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.153>To shed obsequious tears upon this trunk.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.154>O, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kissing TITUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.155>These sorrowful drops upon thy blood-stain'd face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.156>The last true duties of thy noble son!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.157>Tear for tear, and loving kiss for kiss,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.158>Thy brother Marcus tenders on thy lips:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.159>O were the sum of these that I should pay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.160>Countless and infinite, yet would I pay them!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.161>Come hither, boy; come, come, and learn of us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.162>To melt in showers: thy grandsire loved thee well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.163>Many a time he danced thee on his knee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.164>Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.165>Many a matter hath he told to thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.166>Meet and agreeing with thine infancy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.167>In that respect, then, like a loving child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.168>Shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.169>Because kind nature doth require it so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.170>Friends should associate friends in grief and woe:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.171>Bid him farewell; commit him to the grave;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.172>Do him that kindness, and take leave of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Young LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.173>O grandsire, grandsire! even with all my heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.174>Would I were dead, so you did live again!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.175>O Lord, I cannot speak to him for weeping;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.176>My tears will choke me, if I ope my mouth.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Attendants with AARON</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>AEMILIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.177>You sad Andronici, have done with woes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.178>Give sentence on this execrable wretch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.179>That hath been breeder of these dire events.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.180>Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.181>There let him stand, and rave, and cry for food;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.182>If any one relieves or pities him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.183>For the offence he dies. This is our doom:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.184>Some stay to see him fasten'd in the earth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>AARON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.185>O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.186>I am no baby, I, that with base prayers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.187>I should repent the evils I have done:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.188>Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.189>Would I perform, if I might have my will;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.190>If one good deed in all my life I did,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.191>I do repent it from my very soul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.192>Some loving friends convey the emperor hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.193>And give him burial in his father's grave:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.194>My father and Lavinia shall forthwith</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.195>Be closed in our household's monument.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.196>As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.197>No funeral rite, nor man in mourning weeds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.198>No mournful bell shall ring her burial;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.199>But throw her forth to beasts and birds of prey:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.200>Her life was beast-like, and devoid of pity;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.201>And, being so, shall have like want of pity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.202>See justice done on Aaron, that damn'd Moor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.203>By whom our heavy haps had their beginning:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.204>Then, afterwards, to order well the state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.205>That like events may ne'er it ruinate.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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