The most Lamentable Tragedie
21942057And keepes the oath which by that God he
sweares,
21952058To that ile vrge him, therefore thou
shalt vow,
21962059By that
same God, what God
so ere it be
21972060That thou adore
st, and ha
st in reuerence,
21982061To
saue my boy, to nouri
sh and bring him vp,
21992062Or el
se I will di
scouer nought to thee.
22002063Lucius. Euen by my God I
sweare to thee I will.
22012064Aron. Fir
st know thou, I begot him on the Empre
sse.
22032065Lucius. Oh mo
st in
satiate and luxurious woman.
22042066Aron. Tut L
ucius, this was but a deed of charitie,
22052067To that which thou
shalt heare of me anon,
22062068Twas her two
sonnes that murdered
Bassianus,
22072069They cut thy Si
sters tongue, and raui
sht her,
22082070And cut her hands, and trimd her as thou
sawe
st.
22092071Luc. Oh dete
stable villaine, call
st thou that trimming,
22102072Aron. Why
she was wa
sht, and cut, and trimd,
22122073And twas trim
sport for them which had the doing of it.
22132074Luc. Oh barberous bea
stlie villaines like thy
selfe.
22142075Aron. Indeed I was their tutor to in
stru
ct them,
22152076That codding
spirit had they from their mother,
+
22162077As
sure a card as euer wonne the
set:
22172078That bloodie minde I thinke they learnd of me,
22182079As true a Dog as euer fought at head:
22192080Well let my deeds be witnes of my worth,
22202081I traind thy brethren to that guilefull hole,
22212082where the dead corpes of
Bassianus laie:
22222083I wrote the letter that thy Father found,
22232084And hid the gold within that letter mentioned,
22242085Confederate with the Queene and her two
sonnes.
22252086And what not done, that thou ha
st cau
se to rue,
22262087wherein I had no
stroke of mi
schiefe in it,
22272088I plaid the cheater for thy fathers hand,
22282089And when I had it drew my
selfe apart,
22292090And almo
st broke my hart with extreame laughter,
22302091I pried me through the creuice of a wall,
when