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Titus Andronicus (Folio, 1623)
52The Tragedie of Titus Andronicus.
2652To heale Romes harmes, and wipe away her woe.
2653But gentle people, giue me ayme a-while,
2654For Nature puts me to a heauy taske:
2655Stand all aloofe, but Vnckle draw you neere,
2657Oh take this warme kisse on thy pale cold lips,
2659The last true Duties of thy Noble Sonne.
2661Thy Brother Marcus tenders on thy Lips:
2664Luc. Come hither Boy, come, come, and learne of vs
2666Many a time he danc'd thee on his knee:
2668Many a matter hath he told to thee,
2669Meete, and agreeing with thine Infancie:
2674Bid him farwell, commit him to the Graue,
2675Do him that kindnesse, and take leaue of him.
2677Would I were Dead, so you did Liue againe.
2678O Lord, I cannot speake to him for weeping,
2679My teares will choake me, if I ope my mouth.
2681Giue sentence on this execrable Wretch,
2682That hath beene breeder of these dire euents.
2684There let him stand, and raue, and cry for foode:
2685If any one releeues, or pitties him,
2686For the offence, he dyes. This is our doome:
2689I am no Baby I, that with base Prayers
2690I should repent the Euils I haue done.
2692Would I performe if I might haue my will:
2693If one good Deed in all my life I did,
2694I do repent it from my very Soule.
2695Lucius. Some louing Friends conuey the Emp. hence,
2696And giue him buriall in his Fathers graue.
2697My Father, and Lauinia, shall forthwith
2699As for that heynous Tyger Tamora,
2700No Funerall Rite, nor man in mournfull Weeds:
2701No mournfull Bell shall ring her Buriall:
2702But throw her foorth to Beasts and Birds of prey:
2703Her life was Beast-like, and deuoid of pitty,
2705See Iustice done on Aaron that damn'd Moore,
2706From whom, our heauy happes had their beginning:
2707Then afterwards, to Order well the State,
2708That like Euents, may ne're it Ruinate. Exeunt omnes.
2709FINIS.