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| <H3>SCENE IV. Another part of the forest.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON with LAVINIA, ravished; her hands cut off, and her tongue cut out</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>So, now go tell, an if thy tongue can speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Who 'twas that cut thy tongue and ravish'd thee.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=3>Write down thy mind, bewray thy meaning so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>An if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=5>See, how with signs and tokens she can scrowl.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=6>Go home, call for sweet water, wash thy hands.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=7>She hath no tongue to call, nor hands to wash;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>And so let's leave her to her silent walks.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=9>An 'twere my case, I should go hang myself.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=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> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARCUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=11>Who is this? my niece, that flies away so fast!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>Cousin, a word; where is your husband?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>If I do wake, some planet strike me down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>That I may slumber in eternal sleep!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Speak, gentle niece, what stern ungentle hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>Have lopp'd and hew'd and made thy body bare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Of her two branches, those sweet ornaments,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>Whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>And might not gain so great a happiness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>As have thy love? Why dost not speak to me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Alas, a crimson river of warm blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Like to a bubbling fountain stirr'd with wind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Coming and going with thy honey breath.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>But, sure, some Tereus hath deflowered thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>And, lest thou shouldst detect him, cut thy tongue.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Ah, now thou turn'st away thy face for shame!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>And, notwithstanding all this loss of blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>As from a conduit with three issuing spouts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>Yet do thy cheeks look red as Titan's face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Blushing to be encountered with a cloud.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>Shall I speak for thee? shall I say 'tis so?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>O, that I knew thy heart; and knew the beast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>That I might rail at him, to ease my mind!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Fair Philomela, she but lost her tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>And in a tedious sampler sew'd her mind:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>But, lovely niece, that mean is cut from thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>A craftier Tereus, cousin, hast thou met,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>And he hath cut those pretty fingers off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>That could have better sew'd than Philomel.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>O, had the monster seen those lily hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>Tremble, like aspen-leaves, upon a lute,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>And make the silken strings delight to kiss them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>He would not then have touch'd them for his life!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>Or, had he heard the heavenly harmony</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>Which that sweet tongue hath made,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>He would have dropp'd his knife, and fell asleep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>As Cerberus at the Thracian poet's feet.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>Come, let us go, and make thy father blind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>For such a sight will blind a father's eye:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>One hour's storm will drown the fragrant meads;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>What will whole months of tears thy father's eyes?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Do not draw back, for we will mourn with thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>O, could our mourning ease thy misery!</A><br> | |
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