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| <H3>SCENE II. A room in Titus's house. A banquet set out.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter TITUS, MARCUS, LAVINIA and Young LUCIUS, a boy</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>So, so; now sit: and look you eat no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Than will preserve just so much strength in us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>As will revenge these bitter woes of ours.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Marcus, unknit that sorrow-wreathen knot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>And cannot passionate our tenfold grief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>With folded arms. This poor right hand of mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Is left to tyrannize upon my breast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Who, when my heart, all mad with misery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>Beats in this hollow prison of my flesh,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Then thus I thump it down.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To LAVINIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=12>Thou map of woe, that thus dost talk in signs!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>When thy poor heart beats with outrageous beating,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>Thou canst not strike it thus to make it still.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Wound it with sighing, girl, kill it with groans;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Or get some little knife between thy teeth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>And just against thy heart make thou a hole;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>That all the tears that thy poor eyes let fall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>May run into that sink, and soaking in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Drown the lamenting fool in sea-salt tears.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=21>Fie, brother, fie! teach her not thus to lay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Such violent hands upon her tender life.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=23>How now! has sorrow made thee dote already?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Why, Marcus, no man should be mad but I.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>What violent hands can she lay on her life?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Ah, wherefore dost thou urge the name of hands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>To bid AEneas tell the tale twice o'er,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>How Troy was burnt and he made miserable?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>O, handle not the theme, to talk of hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Lest we remember still that we have none.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>Fie, fie, how franticly I square my talk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>As if we should forget we had no hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>If Marcus did not name the word of hands!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Come, let's fall to; and, gentle girl, eat this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>Here is no drink! Hark, Marcus, what she says;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>I can interpret all her martyr'd signs;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>She says she drinks no other drink but tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Brew'd with her sorrow, mesh'd upon her cheeks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>In thy dumb action will I be as perfect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>As begging hermits in their holy prayers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Thou shalt not sigh, nor hold thy stumps to heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>Nor wink, nor nod, nor kneel, nor make a sign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>But I of these will wrest an alphabet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>And by still practise learn to know thy meaning.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>Young LUCIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=46>Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Make my aunt merry with some pleasing tale.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=48>Alas, the tender boy, in passion moved,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=50>Peace, tender sapling; thou art made of tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>And tears will quickly melt thy life away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>MARCUS strikes the dish with a knife</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=52>What dost thou strike at, Marcus, with thy knife?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=53>At that that I have kill'd, my lord; a fly.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=54>Out on thee, murderer! thou kill'st my heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Mine eyes are cloy'd with view of tyranny:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>A deed of death done on the innocent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>Becomes not Titus' brother: get thee gone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>I see thou art not for my company.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=59>Alas, my lord, I have but kill'd a fly.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=60>But how, if that fly had a father and mother?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>How would he hang his slender gilded wings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>And buzz lamenting doings in the air!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>Poor harmless fly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>That, with his pretty buzzing melody,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>Came here to make us merry! and thou hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>kill'd him.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=67>Pardon me, sir; it was a black ill-favor'd fly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>Like to the empress' Moor; therefore I kill'd him.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=69>O, O, O,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>Then pardon me for reprehending thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>For thou hast done a charitable deed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>Give me thy knife, I will insult on him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>Flattering myself, as if it were the Moor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>Come hither purposely to poison me.--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>There's for thyself, and that's for Tamora.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>Ah, sirrah!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>Yet, I think, we are not brought so low,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=78>But that between us we can kill a fly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>That comes in likeness of a coal-black Moor.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=80>Alas, poor man! grief has so wrought on him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=81>He takes false shadows for true substances.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=82>Come, take away. Lavinia, go with me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>I'll to thy closet; and go read with thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=84>Sad stories chanced in the times of old.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>Come, boy, and go with me: thy sight is young,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.</A><br> | |
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