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| <H3>SCENE II. Rome. Before TITUS's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, and CHIRON, disguised</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1>Thus, in this strange and sad habiliment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>I will encounter with Andronicus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>And say I am Revenge, sent from below</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>To join with him and right his heinous wrongs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Tell him Revenge is come to join with him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>And work confusion on his enemies.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They knock</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter TITUS, above</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=9>Who doth molest my contemplation?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>Is it your trick to make me ope the door,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>That so my sad decrees may fly away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>And all my study be to no effect?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>You are deceived: for what I mean to do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>See here in bloody lines I have set down;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>And what is written shall be executed.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=16>Titus, I am come to talk with thee.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=17>No, not a word; how can I grace my talk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Wanting a hand to give it action?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>Thou hast the odds of me; therefore no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=20>If thou didst know me, thou wouldest talk with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=21>I am not mad; I know thee well enough:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Witness this wretched stump, witness these crimson lines;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Witness these trenches made by grief and care,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Witness the tiring day and heavy night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Witness all sorrow, that I know thee well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>For our proud empress, mighty Tamora:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Is not thy coming for my other hand?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=28>Know, thou sad man, I am not Tamora;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>She is thy enemy, and I thy friend:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>I am Revenge: sent from the infernal kingdom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>Come down, and welcome me to this world's light;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Confer with me of murder and of death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>There's not a hollow cave or lurking-place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>No vast obscurity or misty vale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Where bloody murder or detested rape</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Can couch for fear, but I will find them out;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>And in their ears tell them my dreadful name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Revenge, which makes the foul offender quake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=41>Art thou Revenge? and art thou sent to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>To be a torment to mine enemies?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=43>I am; therefore come down, and welcome me.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=44>Do me some service, ere I come to thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>Lo, by thy side where Rape and Murder stands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>Now give me some surance that thou art Revenge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot-wheels;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>And then I'll come and be thy waggoner,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>And whirl along with thee about the globe.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>Provide thee two proper palfreys, black as jet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>And find out murderers in their guilty caves:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>And when thy car is loaden with their heads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>I will dismount, and by the waggon-wheel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Trot, like a servile footman, all day long,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Even from Hyperion's rising in the east</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>Until his very downfall in the sea:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>And day by day I'll do this heavy task,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=60>These are my ministers, and come with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=61>Are these thy ministers? what are they call'd?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=62>Rapine and Murder; therefore called so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>Cause they take vengeance of such kind of men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=64>Good Lord, how like the empress' sons they are!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>And you, the empress! but we worldly men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>Have miserable, mad, mistaking eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>O sweet Revenge, now do I come to thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>And, if one arm's embracement will content thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=70>This closing with him fits his lunacy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>Whate'er I forge to feed his brain-sick fits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>Do you uphold and maintain in your speeches,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>For now he firmly takes me for Revenge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>And, being credulous in this mad thought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>I'll make him send for Lucius his son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>And, whilst I at a banquet hold him sure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>I'll find some cunning practise out of hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=78>To scatter and disperse the giddy Goths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>Or, at the least, make them his enemies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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> | |
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| <A NAME=81>Long have I been forlorn, and all for thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=82>Welcome, dread Fury, to my woful house:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>Rapine and Murder, you are welcome too.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=84>How like the empress and her sons you are!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>Well are you fitted, had you but a Moor:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>Could not all hell afford you such a devil?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>For well I wot the empress never wags</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>But in her company there is a Moor;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>And, would you represent our queen aright,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>It were convenient you had such a devil:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=91>But welcome, as you are. What shall we do?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=92>What wouldst thou have us do, Andronicus?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=93>Show me a murderer, I'll deal with him.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>CHIRON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=94>Show me a villain that hath done a rape,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>And I am sent to be revenged on him.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=96>Show me a thousand that have done thee wrong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=97>And I will be revenged on them all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=98>Look round about the wicked streets of Rome;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=99>And when thou find'st a man that's like thyself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=100>Good Murder, stab him; he's a murderer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=101>Go thou with him; and when it is thy hap</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>To find another that is like to thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>Good Rapine, stab him; he's a ravisher.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=104>Go thou with them; and in the emperor's court</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>There is a queen, attended by a Moor;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>Well mayst thou know her by thy own proportion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>for up and down she doth resemble thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=108>I pray thee, do on them some violent death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=109>They have been violent to me and mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=110>Well hast thou lesson'd us; this shall we do.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>But would it please thee, good Andronicus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=112>To send for Lucius, thy thrice-valiant son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=113>Who leads towards Rome a band of warlike Goths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>And bid him come and banquet at thy house;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=115>When he is here, even at thy solemn feast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=116>I will bring in the empress and her sons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=117>The emperor himself and all thy foes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=118>And at thy mercy shalt they stoop and kneel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=119>And on them shalt thou ease thy angry heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=120>What says Andronicus to this device?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=121>Marcus, my brother! 'tis sad Titus calls.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MARCUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=122>Go, gentle Marcus, to thy nephew Lucius;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=123>Thou shalt inquire him out among the Goths:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=124>Bid him repair to me, and bring with him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=125>Some of the chiefest princes of the Goths;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=126>Bid him encamp his soldiers where they are:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=127>Tell him the emperor and the empress too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=128>Feast at my house, and he shall feast with them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=129>This do thou for my love; and so let him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=130>As he regards his aged father's life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MARCUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=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=132>Now will I hence about thy business,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=133>And take my ministers along with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=134>Nay, nay, let Rape and Murder stay with me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=135>Or else I'll call my brother back again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=136>And cleave to no revenge but Lucius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=137>[Aside to her sons] What say you, boys? will you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=138>bide with him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=139>Whiles I go tell my lord the emperor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=140>How I have govern'd our determined jest?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=141>Yield to his humour, smooth and speak him fair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=142>And tarry with him till I turn again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=143>[Aside] I know them all, though they suppose me mad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=144>And will o'erreach them in their own devices:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=145>A pair of cursed hell-hounds and their dam!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=146>Madam, depart at pleasure; leave us here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>TAMORA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=147>Farewell, Andronicus: Revenge now goes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=148>To lay a complot to betray thy foes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=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=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=151>Tut, I have work enough for you to do.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=152>Publius, come hither, Caius, and Valentine!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PUBLIUS and others</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech34><b>PUBLIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=153>What is your will?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech35><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=154>Know you these two?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech36><b>PUBLIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=155>The empress' sons, I take them, Chiron and Demetrius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>TITUS ANDRONICUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=156>Fie, Publius, fie! thou art too much deceived;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=157>The one is Murder, Rape is the other's name;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=158>And therefore bind them, gentle Publius.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=159>Caius and Valentine, lay hands on them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=160>Oft have you heard me wish for such an hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=161>And now I find it; therefore bind them sure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=163>Villains, forbear! we are the empress' sons.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PUBLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=164>And therefore do we what we are commanded.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=165>Stop close their mouths, let them not speak a word.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=167>Come, come, Lavinia; look, thy foes are bound.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=168>Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=169>But let them hear what fearful words I utter.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=170>O villains, Chiron and Demetrius!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=171>Here stands the spring whom you have stain'd with mud,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=172>This goodly summer with your winter mix'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=173>You kill'd her husband, and for that vile fault</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=174>Two of her brothers were condemn'd to death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=175>My hand cut off and made a merry jest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=176>Both her sweet hands, her tongue, and that more dear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=177>Than hands or tongue, her spotless chastity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=178>Inhuman traitors, you constrain'd and forced.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=179>What would you say, if I should let you speak?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=180>Villains, for shame you could not beg for grace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=181>Hark, wretches! how I mean to martyr you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=182>This one hand yet is left to cut your throats,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=183>Whilst that Lavinia 'tween her stumps doth hold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=184>The basin that receives your guilty blood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=185>You know your mother means to feast with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=186>And calls herself Revenge, and thinks me mad:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=187>Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=188>And with your blood and it I'll make a paste,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=189>And of the paste a coffin I will rear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=190>And make two pasties of your shameful heads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=191>And bid that strumpet, your unhallow'd dam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=192>Like to the earth swallow her own increase.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=193>This is the feast that I have bid her to,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=194>And this the banquet she shall surfeit on;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=195>For worse than Philomel you used my daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=196>And worse than Progne I will be revenged:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=197>And now prepare your throats. Lavinia, come,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He cuts their throats</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=198>Receive the blood: and when that they are dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=199>Let me go grind their bones to powder small</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=200>And with this hateful liquor temper it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=201>And in that paste let their vile heads be baked.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=202>Come, come, be every one officious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=203>To make this banquet; which I wish may prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=204>More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=205>So, now bring them in, for I'll play the cook,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=206>And see them ready 'gainst their mother comes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt, bearing the dead bodies</i></p> | |
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