Sheathing the steel in my adventurous body. My scars can witness, dumb although they are, The issue of an irreligious Moor, Chief architect and plotter of these woes. And, as he is, to witness this is true. Now you have heard the truth, what say you, Romans? The poor remainder of Andronici Will, hand in hand, all headlong cast us down, Speak, Romans, speak! and, if you say, we shall, Emil. Come, come, thou reverend man of Rome, Lucius our emperor; for, well I know, The common voice do cry, it shall be so. Mar. Lucius, all hail! Rome's royal emperor. LUCIUS, &c. descend. Go, go into old Titus' sorrowful house, [To an Attendant. Luc. Thanks, gentle Romans: may I govern so Stand all aloof; but, uncle, draw you near, Mar. Tear for tear, and loving kiss for kiss, O! were the sum of these that I should pay Countless and infinite, yet would I pay them. [Kisses TITUS. Luc. Come hither, boy: come, come, and learn of us To melt in showers. Thy grandsire lov'd thee well; Many a time he danc'd thee on his knee, Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow; Meet and agreeing with thine infancy: In that respect, then, like a loving child, Boy. O grandsire, grandsire! even with all my Enter Attendants, with AARON. heart 1 Rom. You sad Andronici, have done with woes. Give sentence on this execrable wretch, That hath been breeder of these dire events. Luc. Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him; There let him stand, and rave and cry for food: If any one relieves, or pities him, For the offence he dies. This is our doom; Some stay to see him fasten'd in the earth. Aar. O! why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb? will: Luc. Some loving friends convey the emperor hence, My father, and Lavinia, shall forthwith No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds, But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey. [Exeunt. |