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Titus Andronicus (Folio, 1623)
46The Tragedie of Titus Andronicus.
1877'Tis you must dig with Mattocke, and with Spade,
1878And pierce the inmost Center of the earth:
1879Then when you come to Plutoes Region,
1880I pray you deliuer him this petition,
1881Tell him it is for iustice, and for aide,
1882And that it comes from old Andronicus,
1883Shaken with sorrowes in vngratefull Rome.
1884Ah Rome! Well, well, I made thee miserable,
1886On him that thus doth tyrannize ore me.
1887Goe get you gone, and pray be carefull all,
1888And leaue you not a man of warre vnsearcht,
1889This wicked Emperour may haue shipt her hence,
1893Publ. Therefore my Lords it highly vs concernes,
1894By day and night t'attend him carefully:
1895And feede his humour kindely as we may,
1896Till time beget some carefull remedie.
1898Ioyne with the Gothes, and with reuengefull warre,
1899Take wreake on Rome for this ingratitude,
1900And vengeance on the Traytor Saturnine.
1902What haue you met with her?
1904If you will haue reuenge from hell you shall,
1908Tit. He doth me wrong to feed me with delayes,
1909Ile diue into the burning Lake below,
1910And pull her out of Acaron by the heeles.
1912No big-bon'd-men, fram'd of the Cyclops size,
1914Yet wrung with wrongs more then our backe can beare:
1916We will sollicite heauen, and moue the Gods
1918Come to this geare, you are a good Archer Marcus.
1919He giues them the Arrowes.
1922Heere Boy to Pallas, heere to Mercury,
1923To Saturnine, to Caius, not to Saturnine,
1927Ther's not a God left vnsollicited.
1931Good Boy in Virgoes lap, giue it Pallas.
1932Marc. My Lord, I aime a Mile beyond the Moone,
1933Your letter is with Iupiter by this.
1937The Bull being gal'd, gaue Aries such a knocke,
1938That downe fell both the Rams hornes in the Court,
1943Enter the Clowne with a basket and two Pigeons in it.
1944Titus. Newes, newes, from heauen,
1946Sirrah, what tydings? haue you any letters?
1949ken them downe againe, for the man must not be hang'd
1950till the next weeke.
1953I neuer dranke with him in all my life.
1954Tit. Why villaine art not thou the Carrier?
1959young dayes. Why I am going with my pigeons to the
1960Tribunall Plebs, to take vp a matter of brawle, betwixt
1961my Vncle, and one of the Emperialls men.
1963Oration, and let him deliuer the Pigions to the Emperour
1964from you.
1966perour with a Grace?
1968my life.
1969Tit. Sirrah come hither, make no more adoe,
1970But giue your Pigeons to the Emperour,
1972Hold, hold, meanewhile her's money for thy charges.
1973Giue me pen and inke.
1974Sirrah, can you with a Grace deliuer a Supplication?
1976Titus. Then here is aSupplication for you, and when
1978then kisse his foote, then deliuer vp your Pigeons, and
1980it brauely.
1983Heere Marcus, fold it in the Oration,
1984For thou hast made it like an humble Suppliant:
1985And when thou hast giuen it the Emperour,
1986Knocke at my dore, and tell me what he sayes.
1989Exeunt.
1990Enter Emperour and Empresse, and her two sonnes, the
1991Emperour brings the Arrowes in his hand
1992that Titus shot at him.
1993Satur. Why Lords,
1995An Emperour in Rome thus ouerborne,
1996Troubled, Confronted thus, and for the extent
1998My Lords, you know the mightfull Gods,
2000Buz in the peoples eares) there nought hath past,
2001But euen with law against the willfull Sonnes
2002Of old Andronicus. And what and if
2006And now he writes to heauen for his redresse.
2007See, heeres to Ioue, and this to Mercury,
This