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Titus Andronicus

Act III, Scene 1

Rome. A street.
 
[Enter Judges, Senators and Tribunes, with MARTIUS and QUINTUS, bound, passing on to the place of execution; TITUS going before, pleading]
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
        T   T   T       ,        ,        ,           ,  ->
      Hear me grave | fathers,| noble | tribunes || stay,
           ,   3  3      ,            ,           ,
      For pi|ty of mine age,| whose^youth | was spent
          ,    2      ,            ,        ,       ,
      In dang|erous wars,| whilst^you | secure|ly slept:
           ,         ,      .   T      T     T        ,
      For all | my blood | in Rome's great quar|rel shed,
           ,          ,        ,          ,           ,
      For all | the fros|ty nights | that I | have watched,
           ,           ,        ,            ,         ,
      And for | these^bit|ter tears,| which^now | you see,
       ,             ,      ,        ,         ,
      Filling | the ag|ed wrink|les in | my cheeks,
          ,    ,        ,       ,        ,
      Be pit|iful | to my | condemn|ed sons,
              ,          ,        ,       ,          ,
      Whose^souls | are not | corrup|ted as |'tis thought:
           ,          ,       ,       ,       ,
      For two | and twen|ty sons | I nev|er wept,
          ,            ,        ,        ,      ,
      Because | they died | in hon|or's lof|ty bed.
 
[Lieth down; the Judges, etc., pass by him, and Exeunt]
            ,       ,   ,               T  T   T
      For these,| tribunes,/ in the | dust I write
            ,        ,    ,          2       T     T    T
      My heart's | deep lang/uor, and my | soul's sad tears:
       ,         T      T    .     T           ,     ,
      Let my | tears stanch the earth's | dry^ap|petite.
           ,             ,            ,         ,           ,
      My sons'| sweet* blood,| will make | it shame | and blush:
          ,         ,         ,            ,           ,
      O^earth!| I will | befriend | thee more | with rain
             ,         ,           ,          ,         ,
      That shall | distil | from these | two^an|cient urns,
             ,        ,       ,           ,           x
      Than youth|ful Ap|ril shall | with all | his showers
          ,           ,             ,      ,           ,
      In sum|mer's drought | I'll drop | upon | thee still,
           ,              ,    ,            ,          ,
      In wint|er with / warm tears | I'll melt | the snow,
            ,      ,         ,     ,             ,
      And keep | etern|al spring|time on | thy face,
           ,        ,         ,      .   T    T     T
      So thou | refuse | to drink | my dear sons' blood.
          ,         ,    ,         Tx     T   T
      O reve|rend trib|unes, O*| gentle aged men,
          ,         ,        ,           ,         ,
      Unbind | my sons,| reverse | the doom | of death,
           ,        ,          ,       ,        ,
      And let | me say |(that nev|er wept | before)
           ,          ,         ,       ,    ,
      My tears | are now | prevail|ing or|ators.
 
LUCIUS
         ,       ,       ,        ,         ,
      O nob|le fath|er, you | lament | in vain,
            ,         ,         ,     T  T   .  T
      The trib|unes^hear | you not,| no man is by,
           ,        ,           ,        ,       ,
      And you | recount | your sor|rows to | a stone.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
          ,       ,          ,        ,         ,
      Ah Luc|ius for | thy broth|ers let | me plead,
        T     T   T      ,    ,           ,     2
      Grave tribunes,| once more / I en|treat of you.
 
LUCIUS
          ,          ,         ,        ,           ,
      My gra|cious lord,| no trib|une hears | you speak.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
            ,         ,       ,         ,          ,
      Why* tis | no* mat|ter man,| if they | did hear
                    ,    ,         ,        ,          ,
      They would / not mark | me: oh | if they | did hear
                    ,   ,     ,
      They would / not pit|y me.  \\
        ,      2      ,        ,          ,          2       ,
      Therefore I | tell my | sorrows | bootless | to the stones.
              ,           ,       ,       ,        ,
      Who* though | they can|not ans|wer my | distress,
       T   .   T    T        2     ,          2        ,   ,
      Yet in some sort | they are bet|ter than the / tribunes,
            ,                 ,   ,      ,         ,
      For that | they will / not int|ercept | my tale:
           ,        ,          ,       ,        ,
      When^I | do weep,| they hum|bly at | my feet
          ,          ,           ,         ,      ,    
      Receive | my tears,| and seem | to weep | with me,
       ,            ,           ,            ,     ,
      And, were | they but | attir|ed in / grave weeds,
        ,             ,          ,        ,         ,
      Rome could | afford | no trib|une^like | to these.
          ,               ,   ,
      A stone | is as / soft wax,
        ,                 ,            ,
      Tribunes* | more* hard | than stones;  (tri with prev)
          ,         ,        ,       ,        ,
      A stone | is sil|ent, and | offend|eth not,
            ,    ,                  ,        T   T   .   T
      And trib|unes with | their tongues | doom men to death.
            ,           ,        ,               ,       ,
      But where|fore standst | thou with | thy weap|on drawn?
 
LUCIUS
          ,            ,    ,         ,            ,
      To res|cue my / two broth|ers from | their death,
            ,         ,           ,       ,          ,
      For which | attempt | the judg|es have | pronounced
          ,    ,         ,        ,       ,
      My ev|erlast|ing doom | of ban|ishment.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
         ,      ,      ,              ,        ,
      O hap|py man,| they have | befriend|ed thee:
            ,       ,         ,          ,         ,
      Why fool|ish Luc|ius, dost | thou not | perceive
             ,     ,    2     ,       ,        ,
      That Rome | is but a | wilder|ness of | tigers?
       ,              ,          ,     .   T   T   T
      Tigers | must prey,| and Rome | affords no prey
           ,         ,         ,             ,    ,
      But me | and mine:| how hap|py art / thou then,
             ,         ,       ,       ,      ,
      From these | devour|ers to | be ban|ished?
           ,      ,               ,        ,        ,
      But who | comes with | our broth|er Mar|cus here?
 
[Enter MARCUS and LAVINIA]
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
       ,           ,         ,       ,         ,
      Titus,| prepare | thy nob|le eyes | to weep,
          ,        ,        ,       ,          ,
      Or if | not so,| thy nob|le heart | to break:
          ,         ,       ,       ,          ,
      I bring | consum|ing sor|row to | thine^age.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
        ,            ,         ,        ,         ,
      Will it | consume | me? Let | me see | it then.
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
        ,     2        ,
      This was thy | daughter.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
                                   ,       ,        ,
                              Why Mar|cus so | she is.
 
LUCIUS
      ___    ,         T  T    T
      Aye | me this | object kills | me.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
      <-  ,        ,        ,       ,          ,     ,
        Faint || hearted | boy, a|rise and | look u|pon her,
        ,       ,        ,        ,       ,
      Speak La|vini|a, what | accurs|ed hand
             ,      ,    ,                  ,         ,
      Hath made | thee hand/less in | thy fath|er's sight?
             ,          ,      ,      ,        ,
      What fool | hath ad|ded wat|er to | the sea?
            ,         ,              ,     ,        ,
      Or brought | a fag|got to / bright-burn|ing Troy?
           ,          ,          ,         ,           ,
      My grief | was at | the height | before | thou camst,
           ,          ,      ,        ,         ,
      And now | like Nil|us it | disdain|eth bounds:
        ,    2      ,             ,        T   T    T
      Give me a | sword, I'll | chop off^|my hands too,
            ,            ,           ,         ,         ,
      For they | have fought | for Rome,| and all | in vain:
            ,            ,           ,         ,        ,
      And they | have nursed | this woe,| in feed|ing life:
           ,          ,            ,      T    T   T
      In boot|less prayer | have they | been held up,
            ,            ,      ,          ,        ,
      And they | have served | me to | effect|less use.
           ,         ,       ,       ,          ,
      Now^all | the serv|ice I | require | of them,
           ,         ,           ,        ,          x
      Is that | the one | will help | to cut | the other:
             ,       ,   2           ,    ,          ,
      'Tis well | Lavin|ia, that / thou hast | no* hands,
            ,         ,     ,   ,                   ,
      For hands | to do | Rome ser/vice, is | but vain.
 
LUCIUS
        T     Tx    T        ,           ,         ,
      Speak gentle sis|ter, who | hath mart|yred thee?
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
           ,        ,        ,       ,           ,
      O* that | delight|ful en|gine of | her thoughts,
              ,                    ,    ,        ,     ,
      That blabbed | them with / such pleas|ing el|oquence,
           ,           ,            ,      ,        ,
      Is torn | from forth | that pret|ty hol|low cage,
        T     T  .   T        ,  2      ,         ,
      Where like a sweet | melo|dious bird | it sung,
        T     Tx     T         ,        ,      ,
      Sweet varied notes | enchant|ing eve|ry ear.
 
LUCIUS
      T  T    T     ,
      O say thou | for her,
       ,           T    T    T
      Who hath | done this deed?  (tri with prev)
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
           ,        ,           ,        ,         ,
      Oh thus | I found | her stray|ing in | the park,
        ,            ,         ,         ,          ,
      Seeking | to hide | herself | as doth | the deer
             ,         ,           ,    ,        ,
      That hath | received | some^un|recur|ing wound.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
                ,   ,         ,          ,       ,
      It was / my deer,| and he | that wound|ed her,
             ,         ,          ,          ,          ,
      Hath hurt | me more,| than had | he killed | me dead:
           ,        ,         ,      ,        ,
      For now | I stand | as one | upon | a rock,
         ,         ,        ,      ,        ,
      Envir|oned with | a wild|erness | of sea,
            ,          ,        ,
      Who marks | the wax|ing tide,
        T    T   T    __
      Grow wave by | wave,  (tri with prev)
         ,        ,      ,          ,   2     ,
      Expec|ting ev|er when | some en|vious surge,
        ,             ,       ,        ,       ,
      Will in | his brin|ish bow|els swal|low him.
        T   T   .   T           ,        ,          ,
      This way to death | my wretch|ed sons | are gone:
               ,         ,      ,       ,         ,
      Here* stands | my oth|er son,| a ban|ished man,
            ,         ,        ,       ,        ,
      And here | my broth|er weep|ing at | my woes.
            ,            ,          ,          ,         ,
      But that | which^gives | my soul | the great|est spurn,
           ,       ,        ,       ,         ,
      Is dear | Lavin|ia, dear|er than | my soul.
          ,         ,         ,        ,           ,
      Had^I | but^seen | thy pic|ture in | this plight,
           ,           ,       ,     ,             ,
      It would | have mad|ded me.| What shall | I do?
          ,       ,          ,      ,     ,
      Now^I | behold | thy live|ly bo|dy so?
             ,     T   T    .   T      ,          ,
      Thou hast | no hands to wipe | away | thy tears,
              ,          ,        ,           ,         ,
      Nor* tongue | to tell | me who | hath mart|yred thee:
           ,        ,        ,         ,          ,
      Thy hus|band he | is dead,| and for | his death
            ,        ,          ,      .    T   T   T
      Thy broth|ers are | condemned,| and dead by this.
        ,   ,             T   T  T      ,    2
      Look Mar/cus, ah | son Lucius | look on her:
           ,         ,          ,                 ,     ,
      When I | did name | her broth|ers, then / fresh tears
        ,               ,          ,         ,      ,
      Stood on | her cheeks,| as doth | the hon|ey-dew,
        ,        ,        ,     ,        ,        2->
      Upon | a gath|ered lil|y al|most with||ered.
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
            ,           ,         ,             ,          ,       2->
      Perchance | she weeps | because | they killed | her hus||band,
            ,         ,           ,           ,     ,
      Perchance | because | she knows | them in|nocent.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
        2      ,      ,         ,          ,        ,
      If they did | kill thy | husband | then be | joyful,
          ,          ,           ,        ,      ,
      Because | the law | hath tane | revenge | on them.
       T   T    T         2     ,    T   T  .   T
      No, no, they | would not^do | so foul a deed,
       ,             ,        ,           ,        ,
      Witness | the sor|row that | their sis|ter makes.
       ,          ,   2  ,         ,          ,
      Gentle | Lavin|ia let | me kiss | thy lips,
       .   T    T    T        ,        ,          ,
      Or make some sign | how^I | may do | thee^ease:
        ,           ,   ,         2        ,        ,
      Shall thy | good un/cle, and thy | brother | Lucius,
            ,        ,         ,        ,           ,       ->
      And thou | and I | sit round | about | some fount||ain,
        ,       ,      ,           2    ,           ,
      Look|ing all | downwards*| to behold | our cheeks
       ,                ,           ,              ,   ,
      How they | are stained | as mead|ows, yet / not dry
            ,      ,           ,         ,       ,
      With mi|ry slime | left^on | them by | a flood:
           ,         ,         ,          ,         ,
      And in | the fount|ain shall | we gaze | so long,
          2      ,       ,         ,        ,           ,
      Till the fresh | taste be | taken | from that | clearness,
           ,         ,     ,              ,        ,
      And made | a brine-|pit with | our bit|ter tears?
           ,         ,      ,          ,            ,
      Or shall | we cut | away | our hands,| like^thine?
           ,          ,           ,                 ,    ,
      Or shall | we bite | our tongues,| and in / dumb shows
        ,            ,       ,         ,        ,
      Pass the | remain|der of | our hate|ful days?
        ,              ,       ,           ,           ,
      What shall | we do?| Let^us | that have | our tongues
        ,             ,        ,        ,     ,
      Plot some | device | of furth|er mis|eries
           ,         ,        ,        ,         ,
      To make | us wond|ered at | in time | to come.
 
LUCIUS
               ,       ,            ,          ,          ,
      Sweet* fath|er cease | your tears,| for at | your grief
       ,              ,       ,        ,          ,
      See how | my wretch|ed sis|ter sobs | and weeps.
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
        ,                ,           ,      ,            ,
      Patience | dear* niece,| good^Tit|us dry | thine eyes.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
          ,        ,         ,        ,       ,
      Ah Mar|cus, Mar|cus, broth|er well | I wot,
           ,       ,        ,         ,         ,
      Thy nap|kin can|not drink | a tear | of mine,
       .     T    T   T            ,           ,           ,
      For* thou poor man | hast drowned | it with | thine^own.
 
LUCIUS
       ,          ,    ,          ,           ,
      Ah my | Lavin|ia I | will wipe | thy cheeks.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
        T     Tx    T       ,      ,           ,
      Mark Marcus mark,| I und|erstand | her signs,
       ,             ,          ,           ,          ,
      Had she | a tongue | to speak,| now^would | she say
        ,             ,             ,   ,         ,
      That to | her broth|er which^/I said | to thee.
           ,        ,          ,      T    T   . T
      His nap|kin with | his true | tears all bewet,
           ,    ,  ,                 ,     2      ,
      Can do | no ser/vice on | her sor|rowful cheeks.
       ,           ,     ,        ,         ,
      Oh what | a sym|pathy | of woe | is this!
          ,           ,        ,      ,          ,
      As far | from help | as Lim|bo is | from bliss.
 
AARON
       ,          ,   2     ,     ,         ,  2
      Titus | Andron|icus, my | lord the | emperor,
        ,                 ,          ,          ,          ,
      Sends thee*| this^word,| that if | thou love | thy sons,
           ,        ,         2      ,   ,     ,
      Let Mar|cus, Luc|ius, or thy/self old | Titus,
          ,    ,      2       ,     T    T    T
      Or an|y one | of you, chop | off your hand,
            ,        ,         ,     ,             ,
      And send | it to | the king:| he for | the same,
             ,           ,       ,          ,       ,
      Will send | thee hith|er both | thy sons | alive,
            ,           ,        ,       ,            ,
      And that | shall be | the rans|om for | their fault.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
           ,        ,    2    ,    ,        ,
      Oh grac|ious emp|eror, oh | gentle | Aaron,
           ,     ,       ,     T   T  .   T
      Did ev|er rav|en sing | so like a lark,
              ,      ,    ,         2        T    T  T
      That gives | sweet tid/ings of the | sun's uprise?
            ,         ,            ,         ,    3 3     ,
      With all | my heart,| I'll send | the emp|eror my hand,
            ,       ,           ,         ,        ,
      Good^Aar|on wilt | thou help | to chop | it off?
 
LUCIUS
        ,    ,                  ,       ,         ,
      Stay fath/er, for | that nob|le hand | of thine,
                     ,     ,         ,     ,    ,
      That hath / thrown down | so* man|y en|emies,
             ,         ,     T   T    .     T           ,
      Shall not | be sent:| my hand will* serve | the turn,
           ,          ,        ,          ,           ,
      My youth | can bet|ter spare | my blood | than you,
            ,          ,            ,         ,          ,
      And there|fore mine | shall save | my broth|ers' lives.
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
        ,               ,           ,       ,        ,
      Which of | your hands | hath not | defend|ed Rome,
             ,        ,          ,      ,       ,
      And reared | aloft | the blood|y bat|tle-axe,
        ,            ,        ,        x        x
      Writing | destruc|tion on | the ene|my's castle?
           ,         ,         ,         ,        ,
      Oh none | of both | but are | of high | desert:
           ,           ,         ,      ,         ,
      My hand | hath been | but id|le, let | it serve
          ,            ,    ,        ,            ,
      To rans|om my / two neph|ews from | their death,
        ,             ,        ,       ,      ,
      Then have | I kept | it to | a worth|y end.
 
AARON
       T    T  .  T            ,           ,      ,
      Nay come agree,| whose^hand | shall go | along
            ,          ,        ,           ,        ,
      For fear | they die | before | their pard|on come.
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
       ,               ,
      My hand*| shall go.
 
LUCIUS
                                x                 ,   ,
                          By heaven | it shall / not go.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
              ,           ,           ,         ,          ,
      Sirs^strive | no* more,| such^with|ered herbs | as these
            ,          ,        ,         ,          ,
      Are meet | for pluck|ing up,| and there|fore mine.
 
LUCIUS
        ,     ,           ,               ,           ,
      Sweet fath/er, if | I shall | be thought | thy son,
       ,           ,         ,         ,           ,
      Let me | redeem | my broth|ers both | from death.
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
       ,              ,         ,          ,         ,
      And for | our fath|er's sake,| and moth|er's care,
            ,         ,        ,          ,         ,
      Now* let | me show | a broth|er's love | to thee.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
         ,        ,          ,          ,          ,
      Agree | between | you, I | will spare | my hand.
 
LUCIUS
             ,         ,         ,
      Then I'll | go fetch | an axe.
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
          ,         ,         ,
      But I | will use | the axe.   (tri with prev)
 
[Exeunt LUCIUS and MARCUS]
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
             ,      ,        ,        ,            ,
      Come^hith|er Aar|on, I'll | deceive | them both,
        ,             ,        ,          ,           ,
      Lend me | thy hand,| and I | will give | thee mine.
 
AARON
           ,          ,         ,    ,     2      ,
      If that | be called | deceit,| I will be | honest,
           ,        ,         ,     .  T    T   T
      And nev|er whilst | I live | deceive men so:
            ,        ,      ,          ,       ,
      But I'll | deceive | you in | anoth|er sort,
            ,            ,          ,        ,      ,
      And that | you'll say | ere half | an hou|r pass.
 
[Cuts off TITUS's hand. Enter LUCIUS and MARCUS]
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
             ,            ,            ,          ,         ,
      Now* stay | your strife,| what shall | be, is | dispatched:
            ,       ,         ,    ,         ,
      Good^Aar|on give | his maj|esty | my hand,
        ,         ,           ,           ,      ,
      Tell him,| it was | a hand | that ward|ed him
             ,         ,        ,         ,     ,
      From thous|and dang|ers: bid | him bu|ry it:
        T    T   .  T           ,   ,         ,
      More hath it mer|ited:/ that let | it have.
       ,            ,        ,       ,          ,
      As for | my sons,| say^I | account | of them,
          ,        ,         ,       ,      ,
      As jew|els purch|ased at | an ea|sy price,
       .   T    T   T        ,          ,           ,
      And yet dear too,| because | I bought | mine own.
 
AARON
         ,       ,    ,         ,          ,
      I go | Andron|icus,| and for | thy hand,
        T   T  .   T        ,          ,           ,
      Look by and by | to have | thy sons | with thee:
              ,         ,     T  T    T     ,  2
      Their heads | I mean:| oh how this | villany
            ,         ,         ,        ,          ,
      Doth^fat | me with | the ve|ry thoughts | of it.
            ,           ,     .    T   T    T          ,
      Let^fools | do* good,| and fair men call | for grace.
       ,   2         ,          T    T     T          ,
      Aaron will | have his | soul black like | his face.
 
[Exit]
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
          ,        ,          ,          ,         x
      O here | I lift | this one | hand^up | to heaven,
           ,           ,      ,     ,         ,
      And bow | this feeb|le ru|in to | the earth,
          ,    ,      ,         ,        ,
      If an|y pow|er pit|ies wretch|ed tears,
           ,        ,           ,           ,           ,
      To that | I call:| what^wilt | thou kneel | with me?
       ,                ,            x             ,           x
      Do then | dear* heart,| for heaven | shall hear | our prayers,
           ,          ,              ,            ,      ,
      Or with | our sighs | we'll breathe | the welk|in dim,
            ,          ,          ,     .   T   T     T
      And stain | the sun | with fog | as sometime clouds,
             ,        ,     ,    2          ,        ,
      When they | do hug | him in their | melting | bosoms.
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
           ,        ,           ,     ,     ,
      Oh broth|er speak | with pos|sibil|ities,
           ,         ,        ,           ,         ,
      And do | not break | into | these^deep | extremes.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
          ,        ,        ,     ,              x
      Is not | my sor|row deep,| having | no* bottom?
            ,       ,         ,       ,      ,
      Then be | my pas|sions bot|tomless | with them.
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
       .   T   T   T       ,       ,        ,
      But^yet let reas|on gov|ern thy | lament.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
           ,            ,      ,           ,     ,
      If there | were reas|on for | these mis|eries,
            ,     ,        ,         ,         ,
      Then in|to lim|its could | I bind | my woes:
              x            ,          ,     .    T    T   T
      When heaven | doth^weep,| doth^not | the earth oreflow?
                 ,     ,          ,     .   T   T   T
      If the / winds rage,| doth^not | the sea wax mad,
         ,   2            ,                  ,     x      ,
      Threatening | the welk|in with his // big-swollen face?
            ,           ,        ,      ,           ,
      And wilt | thou have | a reas|on for | this coil?
      ,           ,      ,     2        T    T   T
      I am | the sea.| Hark how her | sighs do flow:
       ,             ,        ,      ,         ,
      She is | the weep|ing welk|in, I | the earth:
             ,        ,        ,       ,          ,
      Then^must | my sea | be mov|ed with | her sighs,
             ,         ,           ,        ,   2    ,
      Then^must | my earth | with her | contin|ual tears,
          ,    .  T  T    T      ,            ,
      Become | a deluge: ov|erflowed | and drowned:
           ,        ,       ,        ,          ,
      For why,| my bow|els can|not hide | her woes,
            ,        ,         ,       ,       ,
      But like | a drunk|ard must | I vom|it them;
             ,         ,          ,               ,    ,
      Then give | me leave,| for los|ers will / have leave,
           ,            ,         ,           ,         ,
      To ease | their stom|achs with | their bit|ter tongues.
 
[Enter a Messenger, with two heads and a hand]
 
MESSENGER
       ,           ,   2     ,          ,        ,
      Worthy | Andron|icus, ill | art thou | repaid,
                   ,    ,            ,          ,    ,
      For that / good hand | thou sentst | the emp|eror:
        ,              ,               ,   ,       ,
      Here are | the heads | of thy / two nob|le sons.
             ,           ,         ,      .   T    T    T
      And here's | thy hand | in scorn | to thee sent back:
             ,              ,          ,    ,         ,
      Thy griefs,| their sports:| thy res|olu|tion mocked,
            ,        ,        ,       ,          ,
      That woe | is me | to think | upon | thy woes,
        ,            ,          ,        ,         ,
      More than | remem|brance of | my fath|er's death.
 
[Exit]
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
       T   T   T     ,        ,        ,  2
      Now let hot | Aetna | cool in | Sicily,
           ,        ,         ,      ,        ,
      And be | my heart | an ev|er-burn|ing hell:
             ,     ,          ,          ,         ,
      These^mis|eries | are more | than may | be borne.
           ,           ,           ,           ,           ,
      To weep | with them | that weep | doth^ease | some^deal,
           ,        ,       ,        ,       ,
      But sor|row flout|ed at,| is doub|le death.
 
LUCIUS
            ,           ,              ,         ,        ,
      Ah* that | this sight | should make | so deep | a wound,
           ,       ,        ,           ,           ,
      And yet | detes|ted life | not^shrink | thereat:
            ,      ,             ,      T    T   .    T
      That ev|er death | should let | life bear his name,
               ,          ,          ,        ,          ,
      Where* life | hath no | more^inte|rest but | to breathe.
 
[LAVINIA kisses TITUS]
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
      . T    T    T            ,        ,        ,
      Alas poor heart | that kiss | is com|fortless,
           ,      ,      ,       ,        ,
      As froz|en wat|er to | a starv|ed snake.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
        ,                ,        ,        ,        ,
      When will | this fear|ful slum|ber have | an end?
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
       T    T   T      ,  2      ,       ,  2
      Now farewell | flattery,| die An|dronicus,  ??
          2      ,      ,        ,         T    T     T
      Thou dost^not | slumber,| see thy | two sons' heads,
           ,         ,           ,        ,         ,
      Thy war|like^hands,| thy mang|led daught|er here:
           ,      ,          ,                  ,    ,
      Thy oth|er ban|ished sons | with this / dear sight
         T     T   .    T          ,          ,      ,
      Struck pale and blood|less, and | thy broth|er I,
       Tx    T  .  T      ,        ,          ,
      Even like a sto|ny im|age, cold | and numb.
          ,         ,         ,        ,           ,
      Ah now | no more | will I | control | thy griefs,
            ,          ,       ,         ,       ,
      Rend^off | thy silv|er hair,| thy oth|er hand
        ,           2      ,          ,         ,        ,
      Gnawing | with thy teeth,| and be | this dis|mal sight
           ,        ,              ,     ,        ,
      The clos|ing up | of our / most wretch|ed eyes:
       ,           ,         ,          ,           ,
      Now is | a time | to storm,| why art | thou still?
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Ha, ha, ha.
 
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
            ,           ,          ,     ,                ,
      Why dost | thou laugh?| It fits | not with | this hour.
 
TITUS ANDRONICUS
          ,         ,       ,       ,         ,
      Why^I | have not | anoth|er tear | to shed:
          ,           ,       ,       ,   ,
      Besides,| this sor|row is | an en|emy,
            ,        ,      ,        ,   2    ,
      And would | usurp | upon | my wat|ery eyes,
            ,           ,            ,    ,      ,
      And make | them blind | with trib|uta|ry tears.
             ,      ,              ,       ,         ,
      Then which | way shall | I find | reven|ge's cave?
       .    T    T    T          ,         ,         ,
      For these two heads | do seem | to speak | to me,
             ,      ,             ,       ,         ,
      And threat | me, I | shall nev|er come | to bliss,
            ,           ,          ,        ,        ,
      Till all | these^mis|chiefs^be | returned | again,
        x                ,             ,        ,        ,
      Even in | their throats | that have | commit|ted them.
        ,            ,           ,        ,        ,
      Come, let^|me see | what task | I have | to do.
            ,     ,        ,       ,      ,
      You heav|y peo|ple, cir|cle me | about,
           ,         ,     ,        ,   ,
      That I | may turn | me to | each one / of you,
            ,        ,        ,         ,             ,
      And swear | unto | my soul | to right | your wrongs.
           ,         ,      T     Tx     T        ,
      The vow | is made,| come brother take | a head,
       .   T   T    T         ,     ,          ,
      And in this hand | the oth|er I | will bear.
         2    ,      ,           ,        ,       2         ,
      And Lavin|ia thou | shalt be | employed | in these^things:
              ,         ,      T     T    .  T           ,
      Bear* thou | my hand | sweet wench between | thy teeth:
                 ,   ,        ,           ,         ,
      As for / thee boy,| go get | thee from | my sight,
        ,            ,  ,                     ,    ,
      Thou art | an ex|ile, and | thou must^/not stay,
       ,             ,           ,         ,      ,
      Hie to | the Goths,| and raise | an ar|my there,
           ,         ,         ,       ,          ,
      And if | you love | me, as | I think | you do,
              ,          ,         ,          ,        ,
      Let's^kiss | and part,| for we | have much | to do.
 
[Exeunt TITUS, MARCUS, and LAVINIA]
 
LUCIUS
            ,        ,    ,         x       ,
      Farewell | Andron|icus | my noble | father:
           ,         ,          ,      ,          ,
      The wo|fullst^man | that ev|er lived | in Rome:
            ,      T     T     T     ,           2   ,
      Farewell | proud Rome, till | Lucius | come^again,
            ,           ,        ,       ,          ,
      He leaves | his pled|ges dear|er than | his life:
            ,       ,   x       ,       ,
      Farewell | Lavin|ia my | noble | sister,
          ,            ,         ,        ,           ,
      O would | thou wert | as thou | tofore | hast been,
           ,         ,       ,       ,       ,
      But^now,| nor Luc|ius nor | Lavin|ia lives
           ,     ,    ,          ,         ,
      But^in | obliv|ion | and hate|ful griefs:
          ,        ,         ,        ,             ,
      If Luc|ius live,| he will | requite | your wrongs,
       .    T    T    T      ,     ,         ,
      And make proud Sat|urnine | and his | empress
       ,             ,           ,              ,    ,
      Beg at | the gates | like Tar|quin and / his queen.
       ,         ,            ,           ,         x
      Now will | I to | the Goths | and raise | a power,
          ,        ,          ,         ,      ,
      To be | revenged | on Rome | and Sat|urnine.
 
[Exit]

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