The most Lamentable Tragedie
18651727 Enter Titus, olde Marcus, young Lucius, and other gen- 18661728tlemen with bowes, and Titus beares the arrowes with letters
18681730Titus. Come
Marcus, come, kin
semen this is the way,
18691731Sir boy let me
see your Archerie,
18701732Looke yee draw home inough and tis there
straight,
18711733Terras Astrea reliquit, be you remembred
Marcus,
18721734Shees gone,
shees
fled,
sirs take you to your tooles,
18731735You Co
sens
shall goe
sound the Ocean,
18741736And ca
st your nets, happilie you may catch her in the
sea,
18751737Yet ther's as little iu
stice as at land:
18761738No
Publius and
Sempronius, you mu
st doe it,
18771739Tis you mu
st dig with mattocke and with
spade,
18781740And pierce the inmo
st Center of the earth,
18791741Then when you come to
Plutoes Region,
18801742I pray you deliuer him this petition,
18811743Tell him it is for iu
stice and for aide,
18821744And that it comes from olde A
ndronicus 18831745Shaken with
sorrowes in vngratefull Rome.
18841746Ah Rome, well, well, I made thee mi
serable,
18851747What time I threw the peoples
su
ffrages
18861748On him that thus doth tyrrannize ore mee.
18871749Goe get you gone, and pray be carefull all,
18881750And leaue you not a man of warre vn
searcht,
18891751This wicked Emperour may haue
shipt her hence,
18901752And kin
semen then we may goe pipe for iu
stice.
18911753Marcus. O
Publius, is not this a heauie ca
se
18921754To
see thy Noble Vnkle thus di
stra
ct?
18931755Publius. Therefore my Lords it highly vs concernes,
18941756By daie and night t'attend him carefullie:
18951757And feede his humour kindly as we may,
18961758Till time beget
some carefull remedie.
18971759Marcus. Kin
smen his
sorrowes are pa
st remedie
But