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Court of TITUS' house. A banquet set out.
[Enter LUCIUS, MARCUS, and Goths, with AARON prisoner]
LUCIUS
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Uncle | Marcus,| since^it is | my fath|er's mind
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That I | repair | to Rome,| I am | content.
FIRST GOTH
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And ours | with thine | befall,| what for|tune
will.
LUCIUS
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Good^unc|le take | you in | this barb|arous Moor,
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This rav|enous ti|ger, this | accurs|ed devil,
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Let him re|ceive no sus|tenance,| fetter him,
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Till he | be brought | unto | the emp|ress' face,
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For test|imon|y of her | foul pro|ceedings.
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And see | the amb|ush of | our friends | be
strong,
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I fear | the empe|ror means | no good / to us.
AARON
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Some devil whis|per curs|es in | mine ear,
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And prompt | me that | my tongue | may ut|ter
forth,
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The ven|omous mal|ice of | my swel|ling heart.
LUCIUS
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Away | inhum|an dog,| unhal|lowed slave,
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Sirs,| help our | uncle,| to convey | him in,
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The trump|ets show | the empe|ror is | at hand.
[Exeunt Goths, with AARON. Flourish within. Enter SATURNINUS and TAMORA,
with AEMILIUS, Tribunes, Senators, and others]
SATURNINUS
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What, hath | the firm|ament* / more suns | than
one?
LUCIUS
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What boots | it thee | to call | thyself | a sun?
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
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Rome's empe/ror and | nephew | break the | parle
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These*|| quarrels | must be | quiet|ly
de|bated,
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The feast | is read|y which | the care|ful Titus,
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Hath or|dained to | an hon|ora|ble end,
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For peace,| for love,| for league,| and good | to
Rome:
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Please you | therefore | draw nigh, and take |
your plac||es.
SATURNINUS
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Mar|cus we will. \\
[Hautboys sound. The Company sit down at table. Enter TITUS dressed like a
Cook, LAVINIA veiled, Young LUCIUS, and others. TITUS places the dishes on
the table]
TITUS ANDRONICUS
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Welcome | my grac|ious lord, \\
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Welcome | dread | queen, \\
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Welcome | ye war|like^Goths,| welcome | Lucius,
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And wel|come all:| although | the cheer | be
poor,
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'Twill* fill | your stom|achs, please | you eat |
of it.
SATURNINUS
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Why^art | thou thus | attired | Andron|icus?
TITUS ANDRONICUS
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Because | I would | be sure | to have all well,
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To ent|ertain | your high|ness, and | your
emp||ress.
TAMORA
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We | are behold|ing to you | good^Andron|icus?
TITUS ANDRONICUS
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And if | your high|ness knew | my heart,| you
were:
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My lord | the emp|eror | resolve | me this,
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Was it / well done | of rash | Virgin|ius,
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To slay | his daught|er with his // own right
hand.
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Because | she was | enforced,| stained, and | deflowered?
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It was | Andron|icus.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
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Your reas|on, might|y lord?
SATURNINUS
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Because | the girl,| should not | survive | her
shame,
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And by | her pres|ence still | renew | his
sor||rows.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
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A reas|on might|y, strong,| and ef|fectual,
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A pat|tern, pre|cedent,| and live|ly warrant,
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For me |(most wretch/ed) to | perform | the like:
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Die, die, Lavin|ia, and | thy shame | with^thee,
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And with | thy shame,| thy fath|er's sor|row die.
[He kills her.]
SATURNINUS
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What hast | thou done,| unnat|ural and / unkind?
TITUS ANDRONICUS
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Killed her | for whom | my tears | have made | me
blind.
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I am | as woe|ful as | Virgin|ius was,
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And have | a thous|and times | more* cause | than
he.
SATURNINUS
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What was | she rav|ished? Tell | who did | the
deed.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
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Wilt please | you eat,
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Wilt please | your high|ness feed?
TAMORA
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Why hast thou | slain thine | only | daughter?
TITUS ANDRONICUS
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Not I,| 'twas Chi|ron and | Deme|trius,
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They rav|ished her,| and cut | away | her tongue,
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And they,| 'twas they,| that did | her all |
this^wrong.
SATURNINUS
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Go* fetch | them hith|er to | us pres|ently.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
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Why there | they are | both, baked in that | pie,
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Whereof | their moth|er daint|ily | hath fed,
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Eating | the flesh | that she | herself | hath
bred.
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'Tis true,| 'tis true,| witness my | knife's
sharp point.
[Kills TAMORA]
SATURNINUS
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Die | frantic | wretch, for | this ac/cursed
deed.
[Kills TITUS]
LUCIUS
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Can the / son's eye,| behold | his fath|er bleed?
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There's meed | for meed,| death for | a dead|ly
deed.
[Kills SATURNINUS. A great tumult. LUCIUS, MARCUS, and others go up into the
balcony]
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
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You sad-|faced men, peo|ple and sons | of Rome,
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By up|roar sev/ered like^|a flight | of fowl,
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Scattered | by winds | and high | tempes|tuous
gusts:
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Oh let | me teach | you how,| to knit | again
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This scat|tered corn,| into / one mut|ual sheaf,
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These^brok|en limbs | again | into one | body.
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Lest^Rome | herself | be bane | unto | herself,
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And she | whom might|y king|doms curt|sey to,
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Like a | forlorn | and desp|erate cast|away,
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Do* shame|ful ex|ecu|tion on | herself.
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But^if | my fros|ty signs | and chaps | of age,
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Grave wit/nesses | of true | exper|ience,
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Cannot | induce | you to | attend | my words,
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Speak Rome's dear | friend, as | erst our |
ancestor*, ??
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When with | his sol|emn tongue | he did |
discourse
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To lovesick Di|do's sad | attend|ing ear,
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The stor|y of | that bale|ful burn|ing night,
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When subtle | Greeks sur|prised King Pri|am's
Troy:
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Tell us | what Sin|on hath | bewitched |
our^ears,
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Or who | hath brought | the fat|al eng|ine in,
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That gives | our Troy,| our Rome | the civ|il
wound.
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My heart | is not | compact | of flint | nor
steel,
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Nor can | I ut|ter all | our bit|ter grief,
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But floods | of tears | will drown | my or|atory,
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And break | my ut|terance, ev|en in | the time
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When it | should move | you to | attend | me
most,
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Lending | your kind | hand com|miser|ation.
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Here is | a cap|tain, let | him tell | the tale,
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Your hearts | will throb | and weep | to hear |
him speak.
LUCIUS
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This nob|le aud|itory,| be it known | to you,
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That curs|ed Chi|ron and | Demet|rius
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Were they | that murd|ered our | emperor's |
brother;
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And they it | were that | ravish|ed our | sister,
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For their fell faults | our broth|ers were |
behead||ed,
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Our fath|er's tears | despised,| and base|ly
coz||ened,
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Of that / true hand | that fought | Rome's
quarrel out,
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And sent | her en|emies | unto | the grave.
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Lastly,| myself | unkind|ly ban|ished,
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The gates shut on | me, and / turned weep|ing
out,
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To beg | relief | among Rome's en|emies,
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Who drowned | their en|mity | in my / true tears,
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And oped | their arms | to embrace | me as | a
friend:
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And I | am turned | forth, be | it known | to
you,
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That have | preserved | her wel|fare in | my
blood,
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And from | her bos|om took | the en|emy's point,
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Sheathing | the steel in | my ad|venturous |
body.
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Alas | you know,| I am | no vaun|ter I,
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My scars | can wit|ness, dumb | although | they
are,
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That my | report | is just | and full | of truth:
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But soft,| methinks | I do | digress too much,
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Citing | my worth|less praise:| Oh* pard|on me,
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For when^/no friends | are by,| men* praise |
themselves.
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
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Now is my turn | to speak:| Behold | this^child,
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Of this | was Tam|ora | deliv|ered,
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The is|sue of | an ir|relig|ious Moor,
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Chief architect | and plot|ter of | these^woes,
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The vil|lain is | alive | in Tit|us' house,
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And as | he is,| to wit|ness this | is true.
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Now* judge | what cause | had Tit|us to | revenge
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These wrongs, un|speaka|ble past | patience,
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Or more | than an|y liv|ing man | could bear.
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Now you have | heard the | truth, what | say you
| Romans?
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Have^we | done^aught | amiss?| Show us | wherein,
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And from | the place | where* you | behold | us
now,
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The poor | remain|der of | Andron|ici,
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Will hand | in hand all head|long^cast | us down,
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And on the | ragged | stones beat forth | our*
brains,
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And make | a mut|ual clos|ure of | our* house:
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Speak Romans^speak,| and if | you say | we shall,
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Lo hand in hand,| Lucius | and I | will fall.
AEMILIUS
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Come come, thou | reve|rent man | of Rome,
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And bring | our empe|ror gent|ly in | thy hand,
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Lucius | our emp|eror:| for well | I know,
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The com|mon voice | do cry | it shall | be so.
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
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Lucius,| all hail Rome's | royal | emperor,
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Go, go / into | old^Tit|us' sor|rowful house,
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And hith|er hale | that mis|believ|ing Moor,
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To be | adjudged | some* dire|ful slaught|ering
death,
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As pun|ishment | for his / most wick|ed life.
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Lucius | all hail to Rome's | gracious |
governor.
LUCIUS
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Thanks gentle Rom|ans, may | I gov|ern so,
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To heal Rome's harms,| and wipe | away | her woe.
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But gent|le peo|ple, give | me aim | awhile,
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For nat|ure puts | me to | a heav|y task:
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Stand all aloof,| but unc|le draw | you near,
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To shed | obseq|uious tears | upon this trunk:
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Oh take | this warm | kiss on thy | pale cold
lips,
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These^sor|rowful drops | upon thy | blood-stained
face,
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The last | true dut/ies of | thy nob|le son.
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
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Tear for | tear, and | loving | kiss for | kiss,
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Thy broth|er Mar|cus tend|ers on | thy lips:
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O were | the sum | of these | that I | should pay
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Countless,| and in|finite, yet | would I | pay
them.
LUCIUS
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Come^hith|er boy,| come, come, and learn | of us
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To melt | in showers:| thy grand|sire* loved |
thee well:
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Many | a time | he danced | thee^on | his knee:
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Sung thee a|sleep, his | loving | breast, thy |
pillow:
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Many | a mat|ter hath | he told | to thee,
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Meet and | agree|ing with | thine in|fancy:
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In that | respect | then, like a lov|ing child,
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Shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring,
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Because kind na|ture doth | require | it so:
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Friends, should | asso|ciate friends,| in grief |
and woe.
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Bid him |*farewell,| commit | him to | the grave,
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Do him | that kind|ness, and / take leave | of
him.
YOUNG LUCIUS
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O* grand|sire*, grand|sire:^even | with all | my
heart
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Would I | were dead,| so you | did live | again.
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O* Lord,| I cannot | speak to | him for |
weeping,
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My tears | will choke | me, if | I ope | my
mouth.
[Enter Attendants with AARON]
AEMILIUS
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You sad | Andron|ici,| have^done | with woes,
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Give sen/tence on | this ex|ecra|ble wretch,
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That hath | been breed|er of | these dire |
events.
LUCIUS
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Set him | breast-deep in earth,| and fam|ish him;
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There let | him stand,| and rave,| and cry | for
food;
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If an|y one | relieves | or pit|ies him,
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For the | offense,| he dies.| This is | our doom:
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Some stay, to see | him fast|ened in | the earth.
AARON
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O why | should wrath | be mute,| and fu|ry dumb?
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I am / no ba|by I,| that with / base prayers
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I should | repent | the ev|ils I | have done.
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Ten* thous|and worse,| than ev|er yet | I did
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Would^I | perform | if I might have | my will:
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If one good deed | in all | my life | I did,
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I do | repent | it from | my ver|y soul.
LUCIUS
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Some^lov|ing friends | convey | the empe|ror
hence,
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And give | him bur|ial | in his fath|er's grave.
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My fath|er, and | Lavin|ia, shall | forthwith
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Be clos|ed in our // household's mon|ument:
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As for | that hein|ous tig|er Tam|ora,
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No* fune|ral rite,| nor man | in mourn|ing weeds:
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No* mourn|ful bell | shall ring | her bur|ial:
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But throw | her forth | to beasts | and birds |
of prey:
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Her life | was beast-|like, and de|void of |
pity,
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And being | so, shall | have like | want of |
pity.
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See* just|ice done | on Aar|on that / damned
Moor,
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By whom,| our heav|y haps | had their be|ginning:
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Then aft|erwards,| to ord|er well | the state,
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That like | events,| may nere | it ru|inate.
[Exeunt]