2266But to torment you with my bitter tongue.

2267Luci. Sirs stop his mouth, & let him speake no more.

2269Goth. My Lord, there is a Messenger from Rome

2270Desires to be admitted to your presence.

2271Luc. Let him come neere.

2272Welcome Emillius, what the newes from Rome?

2273Emi. Lord Lucius, and you Princes of the Gothes,

2274The Romaine Emperour greetes you all by me,

2275And for he vnderstands you are in Armes,

2276He craues a parly at your Fathers house

2277Willing you to demand your Hostages,

2278And they shall be immediately deliuered.

2279Goth. What saies our Generall?

2280Luc. Emillius, let the Emperour giue his pledges

2281Vnto my Father, and my Vncle Marcus, Flourish.

2282And we will come: march away. Exeunt.

2284Tam. Thus in this strange and sad Habilliament,

2285I will encounter with Andronicus,

2286And say, I am Reuenge sent from below,

2287To ioyne with him and right his hainous wrongs:

2288Knocke at his study where they say he keepes,

2289To ruminate strange plots of dire Reuenge,

2290Tell him Reuenge is come to ioyne with him,

2291And worke confusion on his Enemies.

2293Tit. Who doth mollest my Contemplation?

2294Is it your tricke to make me ope the dore,

2295That so my sad decrees may flie away,

2296And all my studie be to no effect?

2297You are deceiu'd, for what I meane to do,

2298See heere in bloody lines I haue set downe:

2299And what is written shall be executed.

2300Tam. Titus, I am come to talke with thee,

2301Tit. No not a word: how can I grace my talke,

2302Wanting a hand to giue it action,

2303Thou hast the ods of me, therefore no more.

2304Tam. If thou did'st know me,

2305Thou would'st talke with me.

2306Tit. I am not mad, I know thee well enough,

2307Witnesse this wretched stump,

2308Witnesse these crimson lines,

2309Witnesse these Trenches made by griefe and care,

2310Witnesse the tyring day, and heauie night,

2311Witnesse all sorrow, that I know thee well

2312For our proud Empresse, Mighty Tamora:

2313Is not thy comming for my other hand?

2314Tamo. Know thou sad man, I am not Tamora,

2315She is thy Enemie, and I thy Friend,

2316I am Reuenge sent from th'infernall Kingdome,

2317To ease the gnawing Vulture of the mind,

2318By working wreakefull vengeance on my Foes:

2319Come downe and welcome me to this worlds light,

2320Conferre with me of Murder and of Death,

2321Ther's not a hollow Caue or lurking place,

2322No Vast obscurity, or Misty vale,

2323Where bloody Murther or detested Rape,

2324Can couch for feare, but I will finde them out,

2325And in their eares tell them my dreadfull name,

2326Reuenge, which makes the foule offenders quake.

2327Tit. Art thou Reuenge? and art thou sent to me,

2328To be a torment to mine Enemies?

2329Tam. I am, therefore come downe and welcome me.

2330Tit. Doe me some seruice ere I come to thee:

2331Loe by thy side where Rape and Murder stands,

2332Now giue some surance that thou art Reuenge,

2333Stab them, or teare them on thy Chariot wheeles,

2334And then Ile come and be thy Waggoner,

2335And whirle along with thee about the Globes.

2336Prouide thee two proper Palfries, as blacke as Iet,

2337To hale thy vengefull Waggon swift away,

2338And finde out Murder in their guilty cares.

2339And when thy Car is loaden with their heads,

2340I will dismount, and by the Waggon wheele,

2341Trot like a Seruile footeman all day long,

2342Euen from Eptons rising in the East,

2343Vntill his very downefall in the Sea.

2344And day by day Ile do this heauy taske,

2345So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there.

2346Tam. These are my Ministers, and come with me.

2347Tit. Are them thy Mi( )n( )isters, what are they call'd?

2348Tam. Rape and Murder, therefore called so,

2349Cause they take vengeance of such kind of men.

2350Tit. Good Lord how like the Empresse Sons they are,

2351And you the Empresse: But we worldly men,

2352Haue miserable mad mistaking eyes:

2353Oh sweet Reuenge, now do I come to thee,

2354And if one armes imbracement will content thee,

2355I will imbrace thee in it by and by.

2356Tam. This closing with him, fits his Lunacie,

2357What ere I forge to feede his braine-sicke fits,

2358Do you vphold, and maintaine in your speeches,

2359For now he firmely takes me for Reuenge,

2360And being Credulous in this mad thought,

2361Ile make him send for Lucius his Sonne,

2362And whil'st I at a Banquet hold him sure,

2363Ile find some cunning practise out of hand

2364To scatter and disperse the giddie Gothes,

2365Or at the least make them his Enemies:

2366See heere he comes, and I must play my theame.

2367Tit. Long haue I bene forlorne, and all for thee,

2368Welcome dread Fury to my woefull house,

2369Rapine and Murther, you are welcome too,

2370How like the Empresse and her Sonnes you are.

2371Well are you fitted, had you but a Moore,

2372Could not all hell afford you such a deuill?

2373For well I wote the Empresse neuer wags;

2374But in her company there is a Moore,

2375And would you represent our Queene aright

2376It were conuenient you had such a deuill:

2377But welcome as you are, what shall we doe?

2378Tam. What would'st thou haue vs doe Andronicus?

2379Dem. Shew me a Murtherer, Ile deale with him.

2380Chi. Shew me a Villaine that hath done a Rape,

2381And I am sent to be reueng'd on him.

2382Tam. Shew me a thousand that haue done thee wrong,

2383And Ile be reuenged on them all.

2384Tit. Looke round about the wicked streets of Rome,

2385And when thou find'st a man that's like thyselfe,

2386Good Murder stab him, hee's a Murtherer.

2387Goe thou with him, and when it is thy hap

2388To finde another that is like to thee,

2389Good Rapine stab him, he is a Rauisher.

2390Go thou with them, and in the Emperours Court,

2391There is a Queene attended by a Moore,

2392Well maist thou know her by thy owne proportion,

2393For vp and downe she doth resemble thee.

2394I pray thee doe on them some violent death,

2395They haue bene violent to me and mine.

ee Tomora.