The most Lamentable Tragedie
19981860My Lords you know the mightfull Gods,
19991861How euer the
se di
sturbers of our peace
20001862Buz in the peoples eares, there nought hath pa
st 20011863But euen with law again
st the wilfull
sonnes
20021864Of old
Andronicus. And what and if
20031865His
sorrowes haue
so ouerwhelmde his witts?
20041866Shall we be thus af
fli
cted in his wreakes,
20051867His
fits, his frencie, and his bitternes?
20061868And now he writes to heauen for his redre
sse,
20071869See heres to
Ioue, and this to
Mercurie.
20081870This to
Apollo, this to the God of warre:
20091871Sweete skrowles to
flie about the
streets of Rome,
20101872Wha
ts this but libelling again
st the Senate,
20111873And blazoning our vniu
stice eueriewhere,
20121874A goodly humor is it not my Lords?
20131875As who would
say in Rome no iu
stice were.
20141876But if I liue his fained exta
sies
20151877Shall be no
shelter to the
se outrages,
20161878But he and his
shall know that iu
stice liues
20171879In S
aturninus health, whome if he
sleepe,
20181880Hele
so awake as he in furie
shall,
20191881Cut o
ff the proud'
st con
spiratour that liues.
20201882Tamora. My gratious Lord, my louely S
aturnine,
20211883Lord of my life, commander of my thoughts,
20221884Calme thee and beare the faults of
Titus age,
20231885The'
ffe
cts of
sorrow for his valiant
sonnes,
20241886Who
se lo
sse hath pear
st him deepe and skard his hart,
20251887And rather comfort his di
stre
ssed plight,
20261888Than pro
secute the meane
st or the be
st 20271889For the
se contempts: why thus it
shall become
20281890Hie witted
Tamora to glo
se with all.
20291891But T
itus I haue touched thee to the quicke,
20301892Thy lifeblood out: if
Aron now be wi
se,
20311893Then is all
safe, the Anchor in the port.
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