The most lamentable Tragedie
15891453Perhaps
shee culd it from among the re
st.
15901454Titus. Soft
so bu
silie
she turnes the leaues,
15911455Help her, what would
she
finde? L
auinia shal I read?
15921456This is the tragicke tale of
Philomel,
15931457And treats of
Tereus trea
son and his rape,
15941458And rape I feare, was roote of thy annoie,
15951459Marcus. See brother
see, note how
she coats the leaues,
15961460Titus. L
auinia wert thou thus
surpriz'd
sweet gyrle?
15971461Raui
sht and wrongd as
Phlomela was,
15981462Frocd in the ruthle
sse Va
st and gloomie woods;
15991463See,
see, I
such a place there is where we did hunt,
16001464(O had we neuer, neuer hunted there,)
16011465Patternd by that the Poet here de
scribes,
16021466By nature made for murthers and for rapes,
16031467Mar. O why
should nature build
so fowle a den.
16041468Vnle
sse the Gods delight in Tragedies,
16051469Titus. Giue
signes
sweet gyrle, for here are none but
(friends, 16061470What Romaine Lord it was dur
st doe the deed?
16071471Or
slonke not S
aturnine as
Tarquin er
st,
16081472That left the Campe to
sinne in L
ucrece bed
16091473Marc. Sit downe
sweet Neece, brother
sit downe by
(mee, 16101474Appollo,
Pallas,
Ioue or
Mercurie,
16111475In
spire me that I may this trea
son
finde,
16121476My Lord looke here, looke here L
auinia,
16131477He writes his name with his staffe and guides it
16151479This
sandie plot is plaine, guide if thou can
st 16161480This after me, I haue writ my name,
16171481Without the help of any hand at all.
16181482Cur
st be that hart that forcd vs to this
shift:
16191483Write thou good Neece, and here di
splay at la
st,
16201484What God will haue di
scouered for reuenge,
16211485Heauen guide thy pen to print thy
sorrowes plaine,
That