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  Speaker 1: Dramatis Personae of the Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Dramatis Personai Saturnius elder son to
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  Speaker 1: the late Emperor Rome afterwards Emperor read by Kelly Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: Bassianis brother to Saturninus, read by Thomas Peter.
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  Speaker 3: Titus Andronicus, a noble Roman general against the Goths, read
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  Speaker 3: by Craig Franklin.
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  Speaker 4: Marcus Andronicus, Tribune of the people and brother to Titus
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  Speaker 4: read by Bred.
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  Speaker 5: Lavinia, daughter to Titus Andronicus, read by Jen Broda. Lucius
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  Speaker 5: son to Titus Andronicus read by Jen Broda.
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  Speaker 6: Quintus, son to Titus Andronicus, Red.
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  Speaker 3: Basonia, Marcius son to Titus Andronicus read by Craig Franklin.
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  Speaker 2: Mucius son to Titus Andronicus, read by Thomas Peter.
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  Speaker 6: Young Lucius a boy son to Lucius, Red Basonia.
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  Speaker 5: Publius, son to Marcus the Tribune read by Jen Broda.
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  Speaker 3: Emilius a noble Roman read by Craig Franklin.
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  Speaker 6: Tamara, Queen of the Goss read Bersonia.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Amore Beloved by Tamara read by Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: Peter, Demetrius Son to Tamara read by Kelly Taylor.
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  Speaker 4: Cairron, Son to Tabara read by Bread. A Captain read
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  Speaker 4: by Bread.
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  Speaker 1: A Messenger read by Kelly Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: A Nurse read by Jen Brooda a Clown read by
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  Speaker 5: Thomas Peter.
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  Speaker 1: First Goth read by Kelly Taylor.
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  Speaker 4: Second Goth read by Bread.
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  Speaker 2: Third Goth read Bysnia, Fourth Goth read by Thomas Peter.
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  Speaker 6: First Roman read Personia.
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  Speaker 2: Second Roman read by Thomas Peter.
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  Speaker 6: First Tribune read Personia.
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  Speaker 1: Second Tribune read by Kelly Taylor. Narrator read by Kelly Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Scene Rome and the Country near It, end of Dramatis Persona,
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  Speaker 1: Act one of the Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Act one, Scene one Rome before
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  Speaker 1: the Capital, enter the tribunes and senators aloft, and then
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  Speaker 1: enter Saturnias and his followers at one door, and Bassianus
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  Speaker 1: and his followers at the other with drums and trumpets.
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  Speaker 1: Noble patricians, patrons of my right, defend the justice of
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  Speaker 1: my calls with arms and countrymen, my loving followers, plead
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  Speaker 1: my success title with your soulds. I am his firstborn son,
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  Speaker 1: that was the last that wore the imperial diadem of Rome.
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  Speaker 1: Then let my father's honors live in me, nor wrong
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  Speaker 1: mine age with this indignity.
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  Speaker 2: Romans, friends, followers, favorers of my right. If ever Basianus
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  Speaker 2: Caesar's son were gracious in the eyes of Royal Rome,
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  Speaker 2: keep then this passage to the capital, and suffer not
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  Speaker 2: dishonor to approach the imperial seat to virtue, consecrit to justice,
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  Speaker 2: continence and nobility. But let desert and pure elections shine,
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  Speaker 2: and Romans fight for freedom.
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  Speaker 1: In your choice, Enter Marcus Andronicus aloft holding the crown.
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  Speaker 4: Princes that strive by factions and by friends ambitiously for
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  Speaker 4: rule and empery. Know that the people of Rome, for
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  Speaker 4: whom we stand a special party, have by common voice
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  Speaker 4: in election for the Roman empery, chosen Andronicus surnamed pious,
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  Speaker 4: for many good and great deserts to Rome, a noble man,
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  Speaker 4: a braver warrior lives not this day within the city walls.
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  Speaker 4: He by the Senate is a sight at home from
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  Speaker 4: weary wars against the barbarous Goths, that, with his sons
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  Speaker 4: a tenor to our foes, hath yoked a nation strong,
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  Speaker 4: trained up in arms. Ten years are spent since first
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  Speaker 4: he undertook this cause of Rome and chastised with arms
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  Speaker 4: our enemy's pride. Five times he hath returned bleeding to Rome,
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  Speaker 4: bearing his valiant sons in coffins from the field, and
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  Speaker 4: now at last, laden with honor's spoils, returns the good
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  Speaker 4: Andronicus to Rome, renowned Titus, flourishing in arms. Let us entreat,
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  Speaker 4: by honor of his name, whom worthily you would have
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  Speaker 4: now succeed and in the capital and set its right,
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  Speaker 4: whom you pretend to honor and adore, that you withdraw
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  Speaker 4: you and abate your strength, dismiss your followers, and as suitors,
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  Speaker 4: should plead your deserts in peace and humbleness.
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  Speaker 1: How fair the tribune speaks to calm.
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  Speaker 2: My thoughts, Marcus Andronicus, so I do a thigh in
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  Speaker 2: thy uprightness and integrity, and so I love and honor
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  Speaker 2: thee and thine thy noble brother Titus and his sons,
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  Speaker 2: and her to whom my thoughts are humbled. All gracious Lavinia,
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  Speaker 2: Rome's rich ornament, that I will here dismiss my loving friends,
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  Speaker 2: and to my fortunes and the people's favor, commit my
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  Speaker 2: cause in balance to be weighed.
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  Speaker 1: Exude the followers of Basianas friends that have been thus
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  Speaker 1: forward in my right. I thank you all, and here
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  Speaker 1: dismiss you all, and to the love and favor my country,
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  Speaker 1: commit myself my person, and the calls exude the followers
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  Speaker 1: of Saturnaius Rome, be as just and gracious unto me,
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  Speaker 1: as I am confident and kind to thee. Open the
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  Speaker 1: gates and let me.
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  Speaker 2: End tribunes, and me a poor competitor flourish.
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  Speaker 1: They go up into the Senate house.
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  Speaker 7: Enter a captain Romans make way the good Androuticus, patron
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  Speaker 7: of virtue, Rome's best champion.
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  Speaker 4: Successful in the battles that he fights with honor and
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  Speaker 4: with fortune. His return from where he circumscribe it with
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  Speaker 4: his sword, and brought to yoke. The enemies of Rome.
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  Speaker 1: Sound drums and trumpets. Then enter two of Titus's sons,
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  Speaker 1: and then two men bearing a coffin covered with black,
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  Speaker 1: and then two other sons, then Titus and Ronicus, and
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  Speaker 1: then Tamara, Queen of Goths, with her sons alarbas Cairn,
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  Speaker 1: and Demetrius with Aaron the moor, and others as many
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  Speaker 1: as can be. Then set down the coffin, and Titus speaks.
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  Speaker 3: Hail Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds. Lo was the
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  Speaker 3: bark that hath discharged her throat returns with precious lading
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  Speaker 3: to the bay from whence at first she weighed her anchorage.
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  Speaker 3: Cometh Andronicus bound with laurel bows to re salute his
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  Speaker 3: country with his tears, tears of true joy for his
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  Speaker 3: return to Rome. Thou, great defender of this capital, stand
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  Speaker 3: gracious to the rites that we intend. Romans, now five
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  Speaker 3: and twenty valiant and sons, half of the number that
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  Speaker 3: King Priam had. Behold the poor remains alive and dead.
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  Speaker 3: These that survive, Let Rome reward with love, these that
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  Speaker 3: I bring unto their latest home, with burial among their ancestors.
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  Speaker 3: Here Goths hath given me leave to sheath my sword. Titus,
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  Speaker 3: unkind and careless of thine own, Why sufferest thou thy
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  Speaker 3: sons and buried yet to hover on the dreadful shore
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  Speaker 3: of sticks, make way to lay them by their brethren.
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  Speaker 1: They open the tomb, their.
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  Speaker 3: Greet in silence, as the dead are wont and sleep
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  Speaker 3: in peace, slain in your country's wars, O, sacred receptacle
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  Speaker 3: of my joys, Sweet cell of virtue and nobility. How
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  Speaker 3: many sons hast thou of mine in store, that thou
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  Speaker 3: wilt never render to me?
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  Speaker 5: More, give us the proudest prisoner of the Goths, that
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  Speaker 5: we may hew his limbs on a pile ar the
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  Speaker 5: money's fract room. Sacrifices flesh before this earthly prison of
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  Speaker 5: their bones, that so the shadows be not unappeased, nor
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  Speaker 5: we disturbed with prodigies on earth.
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  Speaker 3: I give him you, the noblest that survives, the eldest
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  Speaker 3: son of this distressed queen.
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  Speaker 6: Stay Roman Brethren, gracious conqueror, victorious Titus Ruder. Tears are
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  Speaker 6: shed a mother's tears in passion for her son. And
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  Speaker 6: if thy sons were ever dear to thee, oh, think
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  Speaker 6: my son to be as dear to me. Suffices not
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  Speaker 6: that we are brought to Rome to beautify thy triumphs,
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  Speaker 6: and return captive to thee and to thy Roman yoke.
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  Speaker 6: But must my sons be slaughtered in the streets for
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  Speaker 6: valiant doings in their country's cause. Oh, if to fight
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  Speaker 6: for king and common weal where piety in thine it
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  Speaker 6: is in these, Andronicus, stay not thy tomb with blood,
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  Speaker 6: wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods, draw
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  Speaker 6: near them than in being merciful. Sweet mercy is nobility's
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  Speaker 6: true badge. Thrice, noble Titus, spare my firstborn.
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  Speaker 3: Son, patient yourself, madam, and pardon me. These are their brethren,
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  Speaker 3: whom your goths beheld alive and dead, and for their
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  Speaker 3: brethren slain religiously they ask a sacrifice. To this Your
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  Speaker 3: son is marked and die. He must to pease their
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  Speaker 3: groaning shadows that are gone.
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  Speaker 5: Away with him, and make a fire straight. And with
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  Speaker 5: our swords upon a pile of wood, let's hew his
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  Speaker 5: limbs till they be clean consumed.
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  Speaker 1: Eggsiot Titus, his sons with abus cruel irreligious piety.
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  Speaker 4: Was never Scythia half so barbarous.
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  Speaker 1: Oppose not Scythia to ambitious robe. Alarbis goes to rest,
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  Speaker 1: and we survive, to tremble under tight a threatening look.
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  Speaker 1: Then Madam stand resolved, but hope withal the self same
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  Speaker 1: gods that arm the Queen of Troy with opportunity of
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  Speaker 1: sharp revenge upon the Thracian tyrant in his tent, may
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  Speaker 1: favor Tamara, the queen of Goths, when Goths were Goths,
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  Speaker 1: and Tamara was queen to quit the bloody wrongs upon
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  Speaker 1: her foes. Enter the sons of Andronicus again with bloody swords.
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  Speaker 5: See Lord and father, how we have performed our Roman rites.
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  Speaker 5: Alarbas's limbs are lopped and entrails feed the sacrificing fire,
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  Speaker 5: whose smoke, like incense doth perfume the sky remaineth not
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  Speaker 5: but to an tear our brethren, and with loud larums,
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  Speaker 5: welcome them to Rome.
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  Speaker 3: Let it be so, and let Andronicus make this his
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  Speaker 3: latest farewell to their souls.
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  Speaker 1: Sound trumpets, and lay the coffin in the tomb.
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  Speaker 3: In peace and honor. Rest, you hear, my sons, Rome's
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  Speaker 3: readiest champions repose you hear in rest, Secure from worldly
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  Speaker 3: chances and mishaps. Here lurks, no treason here, No envy
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  Speaker 3: swells here grow no damned drugs. Here are no storms,
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  Speaker 3: no noise, but silence and eternal sleep. In peace and honor, Rest,
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  Speaker 3: you here.
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  Speaker 1: My sons, enter Lavinia in peace and honor.
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  Speaker 5: Live Lord Titus. Long, my noble lord and father live
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  Speaker 5: in fame. Lo had this too, my tributary tears I
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  Speaker 5: render for my brethren's obsequies, and at thy feet I
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  Speaker 5: kneel with tears of joy shed on this earth for
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  Speaker 5: thy return to Rome. Oh, bless me here with thy
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  Speaker 5: victorious hand, whose fortunes Rome's best citizens applaud.
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  Speaker 3: Kind Rome that has thus lovingly reserved the cordial of mine.
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  Speaker 3: Age to glad my heart, Lavinia, live outlive thy father's
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  Speaker 3: days and fame's eternal date. For virtue's praise.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Marcus and Ronicus, and tribunes re enter Sarnius, Basianus
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  Speaker 1: and others.
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  Speaker 4: Long live Lord Titus, my beloved brother, gracious triumpher in
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  Speaker 4: the eyes of Rome.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Jingle Tribune, Noble brother Marcus.
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  Speaker 4: And welcome nephews from successful wars you that survive, have
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  Speaker 4: you that sleep and fame Lords, Your fortunes are alike
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  Speaker 4: in all that in your country service drew your swords.
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  Speaker 4: But safer triumph is this funeral pomp that hath aspired
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  Speaker 4: to solence happiness and triumphs over chance. In honor's bed.
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  Speaker 4: Titus Andronicus, the people of Rome, whose friend in just
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  Speaker 4: as thou hast ever been, send thee by me their
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  Speaker 4: tribune and their trust the parliament of white and spotless hue,
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  Speaker 4: and name thee in election for the Empire. With these
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  Speaker 4: our late deceased Emperor's sons. Be candidatus then, and put
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  Speaker 4: it on and help to set ahead on headless robe.
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  Speaker 3: Pay better head to glorious body fits than he's. The
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  Speaker 3: shakes for age and feebleness. What should I don this
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  Speaker 3: robe and trouble? You be chosen with proclamation today tomorrow,
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  Speaker 3: yield up rule, resign my life, and set a broad
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  Speaker 3: new business for you all Rome. I have been thy
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  Speaker 3: soldier forty years and led my country strength successfully, and
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  Speaker 3: buried one and twenty valiant sons, knighted in field, slain
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  Speaker 3: manfly in arms, in right and service of their noble country.
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  Speaker 3: Give me a steap of honor for mine age, but
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  Speaker 3: not a scepter to control the world upright he held
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  Speaker 3: it lords that held it last.
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  Speaker 4: Titus, thou shalt obtain and ask the emperor.
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  Speaker 1: Proud and ambitious tribune, canst thou tell patience, Prince set
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  Speaker 1: Ninus Romans, do me right petitions, draw your swords and
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  Speaker 1: shade them. Not till Saturninus be Rome's emperor Andronicus, would
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  Speaker 1: thou be shipped to hell rather than rob me of
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  Speaker 1: the people's hearts.
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  Speaker 5: Proud Sernine, interrupter of the good that noble minded Titus
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  Speaker 5: means to.
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  Speaker 3: Thee content thee. Prince, I will restore to thee the
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  Speaker 3: people's hearts and wean them from themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Andronicus, I do not flatter thee, but honor thee, and
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  Speaker 2: will do till I die my faction. If thou strengthen
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  Speaker 2: with thy friends, I will most thankful be and thanks
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  Speaker 2: to men of noble minds is honorable need.
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  Speaker 3: People of Rome and people's tribunes. Here I ask your
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  Speaker 3: voices and your suffrages. Will you bestow them friendly on Andronicus.
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  Speaker 6: To gratify the good Andronicus and gratulate his safe return
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  Speaker 6: to Rome that people will.
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  Speaker 3: Accept who he admitts tribunes, I thank you, and this
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  Speaker 3: suit I make that you create your emperor's eldest son,
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  Speaker 3: Lord Saturnine, whose virtues will I hope reflect on Rome
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  Speaker 3: as Titans rays on Earth and ripen justice in this
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  Speaker 3: common will then if you will elect, by my advice,
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  Speaker 3: crown him, and say long live our Emperor.
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  Speaker 4: With voices and applause of every sort, patricians and plebeians,
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  Speaker 4: we create Lord Saturninus, Rome's great Emperor, and say long
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  Speaker 4: live our Emperor Saturnine.
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  Speaker 1: A long flourish Titus Andronicus, for all thy favors done
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  Speaker 1: to us in our election this day, I give thee
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  Speaker 1: thanks in part of thy deserts, and will with deeds
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  Speaker 1: requite thy gentleness, and for an onset Titus, to advance
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  Speaker 1: thy name an honorable family Lavinia. Will I make my
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  Speaker 1: Empress Rome's royal mistress mistress of my heart, and in
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  Speaker 1: the sacred pantheon her espouse. Tell me, Andronicus, doth this
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  Speaker 1: motion please THEE?
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  Speaker 3: It doth my worthy Lord, And in this match I
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  Speaker 3: hold me highly honored of your grace. And here, in
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  Speaker 3: sight of Rome, to Saturnine, King and commander of our
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  Speaker 3: commonweal the wide world's Emperor. Do I consecrate my sword,
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  Speaker 3: my chariot, and my prisoner's presence, well worthy, Rome's imperious Lord,
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  Speaker 3: receive them. Then the tribute that I owe mine honor's
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  Speaker 3: ensigns humbled at thy feet.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, noble Titus, father of my life, how proud am
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  Speaker 1: I of thee and of thy gifts, Rome shall record,
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  Speaker 1: And when I do forget the least of these unspeakable desserts, rooms,
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  Speaker 1: forget your fealty to me Titus to Tamara, Now, Madam,
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  Speaker 1: are you prisoner to an emperor?
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  Speaker 3: To him that for your honor and your state will
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  Speaker 3: use you nobly and your followers.
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  Speaker 1: A goodly lady. Trust me of the hue that I
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  Speaker 1: would choose, were I to choose anew. Clear up their
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  Speaker 1: queen that cloudy countenance. Though chance of war hath wrought
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  Speaker 1: this change of cheer. Thou comest not to be made
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  Speaker 1: a scorn in Rome. Princely shall be thy usage every way?
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  Speaker 1: Rest on my word, and let not discontent. Don't all
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  Speaker 1: your hopes, Madam. He comforts you can make you greater
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  Speaker 1: than the queen of Goths Lavinia.
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  Speaker 5: You are not displeased with this, Not, I, my lord sith,
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  Speaker 5: true nobility warrants these words in princely courtesy.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks sweet Lavina, Romans, let us go ransomless. Here we
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  Speaker 1: set our does free, proclaim our Honor's lords with trump
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  Speaker 1: and drum flourish Cernaias and his guards exit with drums
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  Speaker 1: and trumpets. Tribunes and senators exit aloft.
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  Speaker 2: Lord Titus, by your leave, this maid is mine?
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  Speaker 3: How sir are you in earnest?
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  Speaker 2: Then, my lord I noble Titus, and resolved with all
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  Speaker 2: to do myself this reason and this right.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm quicke is our Roman justice, this prince in
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  Speaker 4: justice see this but his own.
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  Speaker 5: And that he will and shall if Lucius live.
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  Speaker 3: Treaties are warned. Where is the empress?
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  Speaker 4: God?
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  Speaker 1: Enter Saturnius and his guards treason.
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  Speaker 8: My Lord Lavigna is surprised, surprised by whom.
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  Speaker 2: By him that justly may bear his betrothed from all
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  Speaker 2: the world away.
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  Speaker 1: Exitunte Batianus and Marcus with Lavinia.
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  Speaker 2: Brothers help to conveyre Hence away. And with my sword,
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  Speaker 2: I'll keep this door safe.
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  Speaker 1: Exant Lucius, Quintus and Marcius.
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  Speaker 3: Follow my lord, and I'll soon bring her back.
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  Speaker 1: Exant Serenaios, Tamarah, Demetrius, chirn Aaron and guards.
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  Speaker 2: My lord, you pass not here?
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  Speaker 3: What run boy, barrist of me? My way in Rome?
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  Speaker 1: Stabbing Mucius, Well, Lucius, he dies.
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  Speaker 5: Re Enter Lucius, my lord you are unjust and more
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  Speaker 5: than so in wrongful quarrel. You have slain your son.
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  Speaker 3: Nor thou nor he are any sons of mine. My
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  Speaker 3: sons would never so dishonor me. Creator will Restolavinia to
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  Speaker 3: the Emperor dead.
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  Speaker 5: If you will, but not to be his wife. That
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  Speaker 5: is another's lawful homist love.
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  Speaker 1: Exit inter aloft the Emperor Saturnius with Tamara and her
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  Speaker 1: two sons and Aaron the more. No Titus, No, the
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  Speaker 1: Emperor needs her, Not nor her, nor thee, nor any
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  Speaker 1: of thy stock. I'll trust by leisure him that mocks
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  Speaker 1: me once thee, never nor thy traitors, haughty sons, confederates.
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  Speaker 1: All thus to dishonor me. Was none in Rome to
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  Speaker 1: make a stale, But Saturnine fall well Andronicus agree these
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  Speaker 1: deeds with that proud rag of thine that sitst I
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  Speaker 1: beg the empire at thy hands.
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  Speaker 3: O monstrous, What reproachful words are these?
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  Speaker 1: But go thy ways, Go give that changing peace to
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  Speaker 1: him that flurry for her with his sword a baggot
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  Speaker 1: son in law, Thou shalt in joy one fit to
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  Speaker 1: bandy with thy lawless sons, to ruffle in the commonwealth
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  Speaker 1: of Rome.
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  Speaker 3: These words are raises to my wounded heart.
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  Speaker 1: And Therefore, Lovely Tamorah, Queen of Goths, that like the
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  Speaker 1: stately Phoebe mongst her nymphs, doth overshine the gallantest dames
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  Speaker 1: of Rome. If thou be pleased with this my sudden choice, behold,
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  Speaker 1: I choose thee Tamarah for my bride, and will create
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  Speaker 1: thee Impress of Rome. Speak, Queen of Goths, doth thou
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  Speaker 1: applaud my choice? And here I swear by all Roman gods, Sith,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: priest and holy water are so near, and tapers burn
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: so bright, and everything in readiness for Hymonaea stand. I
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  Speaker 1: will not resolute the streets of Rome, or climb my
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  Speaker 1: palace till from forth this place I lead, espoused my
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  Speaker 1: bride along with me.
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  Speaker 6: And here, in sight of heaven toll Rome, I swear,
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  Speaker 6: if set Anine advanced the Queen of Gos, she will
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  Speaker 6: a handmaid, be to his desires, a loving nurse, a
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  Speaker 6: mother to his youth.
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  Speaker 1: Assen, Fair Queen, Pantheon Lords, accompany your noble Emperor and
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  Speaker 1: his lovely bride. Sent by the heavens for Prince Satadine,
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  Speaker 1: whose wisdom hath her fortune conquered. There shall we consummate
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  Speaker 1: our espousal rites exant all but Titus.
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  Speaker 3: I am not bid to wait upon this bride. Titus,
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  Speaker 3: when would the I want to walk alone? Dishonored thus
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  Speaker 3: and challenged of wrongs.
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  Speaker 1: Re enter Marcus, Lucius, Quintus and marshos.
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  Speaker 4: Oh Titus, see, oh, see what thou hast done in
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: a bad quarrel slain of virtuous son.
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  Speaker 3: No fools, tribune, no no son of mine, nor thou
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  Speaker 3: nor these confederates in the deed that had dishonored all
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  Speaker 3: our family, unworthy brother and unworthy sons.
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  Speaker 5: But let us give him burial as becomes, give Mucius
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  Speaker 5: burial with our brethren.
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  Speaker 3: Treat this away. He rests not in this tomb, this
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  Speaker 3: monument five hundred years hath stood, which I have sumptuously reedified.
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  Speaker 3: Here None but soldiers and Rome's servitors repose in fame,
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  Speaker 3: none basically slain in braels. Bury him where you can.
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  Speaker 3: He comes not here.
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  Speaker 4: My lord, this is impiety in you, my nephew Musius deeds.
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  Speaker 4: Do plead for him. He must be buried with his brethren.
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  Speaker 3: And shall or him we will accompany. And shall what
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  Speaker 3: villain would it spake that word he that would vouch.
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  Speaker 6: It in any place but here, What.
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  Speaker 3: Would you bury him in my despite.
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  Speaker 4: No noble Titus, but entreatthy to pardon Musius and to
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  Speaker 4: bury him.
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  Speaker 3: Marcus even now has struck upon my crest, and with
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: those boys my honor, Thou hast wounded my foes. I
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: do repute you everyone, so trouble me no more, but
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  Speaker 3: get you gone.
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  Speaker 6: He is not with himself.
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  Speaker 3: Let us withdraw not I till Mucius bones be buried.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus and the sons of Titus neil brother.
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  Speaker 4: For in that name doth nature plead, father, And.
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  Speaker 3: In that name doth nature speak, Speak thou no more,
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  Speaker 3: if all the rest will.
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  Speaker 4: Speed renown Titus more than half my soul.
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  Speaker 5: Dear father, soul and substance of us, all.
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  Speaker 4: Suffer thy brother Marcus to inter his noble nephew here
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  Speaker 4: in Virtue's nest, that died in honor and Lavinia's cause.
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  Speaker 4: Thou art a Roman, be not barbarous. The Greeks, upon
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: advice did bury Ajax, that slew himself, and wise Lait
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  Speaker 4: his son did graciously plead for his funerals. Let not
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: young Beaucius, then that was thy joy be barred his entrance.
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  Speaker 3: Here rise Marcus. Wise the dismalst day? Is this that
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: ere I saw to be dishonored by my sons in Rome?
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Well bury him and bury me?
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  Speaker 1: Next they put Mucius in the tomb.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: There lie thy bones, sweet Mucius, with thy friends, till
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: we with trophies do adorn thy.
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  Speaker 1: Tomb, all kneeling.
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  Speaker 2: Tears, for he lives in fame.
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  Speaker 4: The cause, my lord to step out of these dreary dumps.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: How comes it that the subtle Queen of gods is
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: of a sudden thus advanced? And Rome?
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  Speaker 3: I know not, Marcus, but I know it is, whether
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: by device or no? The heavens can tell. Is she
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: not then beholding to the man that brought her for
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: this high good turn? So far? Yes, and will nobly
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: him remunerate flourish.
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  Speaker 1: Enter the Emperor Saturnias, Tamara and her two sons with
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Aaron the moor, drums and trumpets at one door. Enter
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: at the other door, Bassianas and Lavinia with others. So
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  Speaker 1: you have played your prize. God give you joy, Sir,
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  Speaker 1: of your gallant ride, and.
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  Speaker 2: You of yours. My Lord, I say no more, nor
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  Speaker 2: wish no less, And so I take my leave.
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  Speaker 1: Great If Rome have law or we have power, thou
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  Speaker 1: and thy factions shall repent this rape.
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  Speaker 2: Rape callie with my lord to seize my own, my
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: true betrothed love and now my wife. But let the
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: laws of Rome determine all. Meanwhile, am I possessed of
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: that is mine?
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  Speaker 1: Tis good? Sir, you are very short with us, But
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: if we live, we'll be as sharp with you, my lord.
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  Speaker 2: What I have done, as best I may answer, I
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: must and shall do with my life only thus much
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I give your grace to know by all the duties
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: that I owe to Rome. This noble gentleman, Lord Titus,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: here is an opinion and an honor wronged, that, in
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: the rescue of Levigna, with his own hands, did slay
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: his youngest son, enzeal'd to you, and highly mov'd to
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: wrath to be controlled in that he frankly gave received him.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Then to favor Saturnine, that hath express'd himself in all
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  Speaker 2: his deeds a father and a friend to thee and.
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  Speaker 3: Rome, Prince Bessiannes leave to plead my deeds didst thou
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: and those that hath dishonor'd me? Rome, and the righteous
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: heavens be my judge. How I have loved an honored satinine.
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  Speaker 6: My worthy lord. If ever Tamorah were gracious in those
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: princely eyes of thine, then hear me speak indifferently for all,
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: and at my sooth, sweet pardon, what is past?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: What madam be dishonor'd openly and basely put it up
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: without revenge?
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  Speaker 6: Not so, my lord, the gods of Rome, for offend
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: I should be authored to dishonor you, But on mine honor,
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: dare I undertake for good Lord Titus innocence in all
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: whose fury not dissembled speaks his griefs, Then at my
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: suit look graciously on him lose not so noble a
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  Speaker 6: friend on vain suppose, nor will sour looks afflict his
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  Speaker 6: gentle heart. Aside, my lord, be ruled by me, Be
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: one at last, dissemble all your griefs and discontents. You
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: are but newly planted in your throne, less than the people,
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: and patricians too, upon a just survey, Take Titus part,
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: and so supplant you for ingratitude, which Rome reputes to
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: be a heenous sin. Yield at entreats, and then let
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: me alone. I'll find a day to massacre them all
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  Speaker 6: and raise their faction and their family, the cruel father
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: and his traitorous sons, to whom I suit for my
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: dear son's life, and make them know what this to
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: Let a queen kneel in the streets and beg for
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: grace in vain aloud. Come, Come, sweet Emperor, Come Andronicus,
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: take up this good old man, and cheer the heart
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  Speaker 6: that dies in tempest of thy angry frown.
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  Speaker 1: Rise, Titus, Rise, my Empress hath prevailed.
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  Speaker 3: I thank your majesty and her, my Lord, these words,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: these looks infuse new life in me.
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: Titus, I am incorporate in Rome a Roman now adopted happily,
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: and must advise the Emperor for his good. This day
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: all quarrels die, Andronicus, and let it be my and
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: honor good, my lord, that I have reconciled your friends
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: and you, for you, Prince Passianus, I have passed my
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: word and promise to the Emperor that you will be
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: more mild than tractable and fear not lords, and you, Livinia,
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: by my advice, all humbled on your knees, you shall
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: ask pardon of his majesty.
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  Speaker 5: We do and vow to Heaven and to his Highness,
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: that what we did was mildly as we might, tendering
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: our sister's honor and.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Our own, that on mine honor. Here do I protest.
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  Speaker 9: Away and talk not trouble us no more, nay nay,
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: Sweet Emperor, we must all be friends. The tribune and
• 34:51
  Speaker 9: his nephew's kneel for grace. I will not be denied. Sweetheart,
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  Speaker 9: Look back.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus, for thy and thy brother's here, and at my
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: lovely tomorrow's entreats. I don'tmit these young man's heinous faults.
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  Speaker 1: Stand up, Lavenia. Though you left me like a child,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I found a friend, and sure as death I saw,
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  Speaker 1: I would not part a bachelor from the priest. Come,
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  Speaker 1: if the Emperor's court can feast two brides, you are
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: my guest, Lavena, and your friends. This day shall be
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  Speaker 1: a love.
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  Speaker 3: Day, Tamara tomorrow, And it please your Majesty to hunt
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  Speaker 3: the panther and the heart with me with horn and hound,
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  Speaker 3: will give your grace. Bonjour.
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  Speaker 1: Be it so, Titus and Gramercy too, sound trumpets exit
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: at all but aaron. End of Act one, Act two
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  Speaker 1: of the Tragedy of Tartus Andronicus by William Shakespeare. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Act two, Scene one, Rome before the
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  Speaker 1: palace erin alone.
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  Speaker 2: Now climbeth Tamera Olympus top safe out of fortune shot
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  Speaker 2: and sits aloft, secure of Thunder's crack or lightnings flash
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: advanced above pale envys threatening reach as when the golden
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: sun salutes them on and having gilt the ocean with
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: his beams, gallops the Zodiac in his glistening coach and
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: overlooks the highest peering hills. So Tamarah upon her witch
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  Speaker 2: doth earth Theeona wait and virtue stoops and trembles at
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: her frown. Then Aaron arm thy heart and fit thy
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: thoughts to mount Aloft with thy imperial mistress, and mount
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: her pitch. Whom thou in triumph long hast prisoner, held
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: fettered in amorous chains, and fast abound to Aaron's charming eyes,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: than is Prometheus tied to corcarsis sir away with slavish
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: weeds and servile thoughts. I will be bright and shine
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: and pearl and gold to wait upon this new made
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: empress to wait, said I to wanton with this queen,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: this goddess, this samarahanis this nymph, this siren that will
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: charm from Saturnine and see his shipwreck and his commonweals? Honor?
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: What's toom?
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  Speaker 1: Is this into chiron and demetrious braving chiron thy years
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  Speaker 1: want wit, thy wits, want edge and manners to intrude
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  Speaker 1: where I am graced, and may for all thou knowest affected.
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  Speaker 4: Bee demetrious, thou dost overween in all, and so in
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: this to bear me down with braves, tis not the
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: difference of a year or two makes me as gracious
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: of the wall fortunate. I am as able and as
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: fit as thou to serve and to deserve my mistress grace.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: And that my sword upon thee shall approve and plead
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: my passions for la Video's love.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Aaron aside loves clves.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: These lovers will not keep the peace.
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  Speaker 1: Why, boy, although our mother unadvised gave you a dancing
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: rapier by your side, are you so desperate grown to
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: threat your friends? Go too, Have your lafe glued within
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: your sheath till you know better how to handle it.
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  Speaker 4: Be while sir, with the little skill I have for
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: well shat up? And see how much I.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Dare aie boy grow ye so brave they draw?
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Why how now, lords, so near the Emperor's palace, dare
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: you draw and maintain such a quarrel openly full? Will
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: I want the ground of all this grudge? I would
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: not for a million of gold the calls were known
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: to them at most concerns, Nor would your noble mother
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: for much more be so dishonored in the court of
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Rodin for shame, Put up.
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  Speaker 1: Not I till I have sheathed my rapia in his
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: bosom and withal thrust those reproachful speeches down his throat
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: that he hath breathed in my dishonor.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Here for that I am prepared, in full, resolved, foul
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: spoken coward, that thunderous, with thy tongue and with thy weapon,
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  Speaker 4: nothing darest perform away?
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  Speaker 2: I say, now, by the gods at wall I got
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: the door. This pretty brable will undo us all. Why lords,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: and think you not how dangerous it is to jet
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: upon our prince's right? What is Lavinia then become so
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: loose or Bassian so degenerate that for her love such
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: quarrels may be broached without controlment, justice or revenge. Young
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: lords be aware, and should the Empress know this? Discords
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: ground the music would not please.
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  Speaker 4: I care not I knew she and all the world.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: I love the Vinea more than all the world.
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  Speaker 1: Young ling, learn how to make some meaner choice. Lavinia
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: is thine elder brother's hope.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Why are ye matt or no, you're not in Rome?
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: How furious and impatient they be and cannot brook competitors
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  Speaker 2: in love? I tell you, lords, you do but plot
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: your deaths by this device.
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  Speaker 4: Aaron a thousand deaths? What I propose to achieve her?
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: Whom I love to achieve her?
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  Speaker 3: How?
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  Speaker 1: Why makes thou? It's so strange? She is a woman,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: therefore may be wooed. She is a woman, therefore maybe one.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved.
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  Speaker 10: What men more.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Water glided by the mill than what's the miller of?
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: And easy it is of a cut loaf to steal
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: a shive? We know, though barsianas be the Emperor's brother
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: better than he have worn Vulcan's badge erin aside, aye,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: and as.
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  Speaker 2: Good as Saturnighnus may.
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  Speaker 1: Then why should he despare the nose to court it
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: with words, fair looks and liberality. What has not thou
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: full orphan struck a dough and borne her cleanly by
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: the keeper's nose?
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Why then, it seems some certain snatch or soul would
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: serve your turns.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, So the tad were served.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Thou hast did it?
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Would you had hit it too? Then? Should not we
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: be tired with this? Adieu? Why hearky, harky? And are
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: you such fools to square for this? Would it offend you?
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Then that both should speed faith?
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Not me nor me so our one.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: For shame, be friends and join for that you jar ti.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Policy and strategy must do that you affect, and so
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: must you resolve that what you cannot as you would achieve,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: you must pour forth accomplish as you may take. This
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: of me, Lucres was not more chaste than the slavinia
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: bassianaslav a speedy our course, the lingering languishment must we pursue.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: And I have found the path, my lords, A solemn
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: hunting is in hand. There will the lovely Roman ladies troop.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: The forest walks are wide and spacious, and many unfrequented
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: plots there are fitted by kind for rape and villainy.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Single you thhither then this dainty doe, and strike her
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: home by force, if not by words, this way all
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: not at all stand you in hope. Come, come our Empress,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: with our sacred wit to villainy and vengeance consecrate. Will
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: we acquaint with all what we intend, and she shall
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: file our engines with advice that will not suffer you
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: to square yourselves, but to your wish's height, advance you both.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: The Emperor's court is like the house of fame, the
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: palace full of tongues, of eyes and ears. The woods
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: are ruthis, dreadful, death and dull. There speak and strike,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: brave boys, and take your turns. There, serve your last
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: shadowed from Heaven's eye, and travel in Lavinya's treasury.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: Thy counsel, lad smells of no cowardice.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: See face out, Nephus, till I find the stream to
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: cool this heat, a charm to calm these fits. Prestigia
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: per moneis or exempt scene too a forest near Rome,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: a large scene at a distance, horns and cry of
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: hounds heard. Enter Titus Andronicus and his three sons, and
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Marcus making a noise with hounds and horns.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: The hunt is up, the morns bright and gray, the
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: fields are fragrant, and the woods of green and couple here.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: And let us make a bay and wake the Emperor
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: and his lovely bride, and rouse the prince, and ring
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: a hunter's peal, that all the court may echo with
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: the noise. Sons, let it be your charge, as it
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: is ours, to attend the emperor's person carefully. I have
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: been troubled in my sleep this night, But dawning day
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: new comfort hath inspired.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Hear a cry of hounds, and went horns in appeal.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Then enter Saturnius, Tamora, Barsianas, Livinia, Chirn, Demetrius, and their attendants.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Many good morrows to your majesty Madam, to you as
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: many and as good. I promised your grace a hunter's peal,
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: and you have rung.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: It lustly, my lords, somewhat too early for new married.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Ladies, Lavina, how say you, I.
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: Say no, I have been brought awake two hours and more.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, then, horse and chariots, let us have and
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  Speaker 1: to our sport. To Tamara, Madam, now shall ye see
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: our Roman hunting.
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  Speaker 4: I have dogs, my lord will rouse the proudest panther
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: of the chase and climb the highest promontory top, and.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: I have horse will follow where the game makes way
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: and runs like swallows or the plane cairn.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: We hunt, not we with horse or hound, but hope
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: to pluck a dainty dough to ground. Exund Scene three,
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  Speaker 1: a lonely part of the forest. Enter Aaron alone, carrying
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  Speaker 1: a bag of gold.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: He that had witch would think that I had none
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: to bury so much gold under our tree, and never
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: after to inherit it. Let him that thinks of me
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: so abjectly know that this gold must coin a stratagem,
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: which cunningly affected will beget a very excellent piece of villainy,
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: and so repose sweet gold for their unrests that have
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: their arms out of the embraced chest.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: He hides the bag. Enter Tamaron alone to the moor.
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  Speaker 6: My lovely erin wherefore looks thou said, when everything does
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: make a gleeful post. The birds chant melody on every bush,
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: The snakes lie a rolled in the cheerful sun. The
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: green leaves quiver with the cooling wind and make a
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: shackered shadow on the ground under their sweet shade. Aaron,
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: let us sit and whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: replying shrilly to the well tuned horns, as if a
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: double hunt were heard. At once, let us sit down
• 48:20
  Speaker 6: and mark their yelping noise, and after conflict, such as
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: was supposed the wandering Prince and Tido once enjoyed when
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: with a happy storm they were surprised and curtained with
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: the council keeping cave. We may each wreathed in the
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: other's arms, our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber, whilst
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds be unto us,
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: as is a nursey song of lullaby to bring her
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: babe asleep.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: Madame Lauven, ask govern your desires. Saton is dominator. Over
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: mine what signifies my deadly standing eye, my silence, and
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: my cloudy melancholy, my fleece of woolen hair that now
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: one curves even as an adder when she doth unroll
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: to do some fatal execution. No, Madam, these are no
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: venereal signs. Van John sees in my heart, death in
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: my hand, blood and the revenge are hammering in my head.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Hark Tamera, the impress of my soul, which never hopes
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: more heaven than rest in me. This is the day
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: of doom for Bassianus. His philomel must lose her tongue. Today,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: thy sons make pillage of our chastity and wash their
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: hands in Bassianus blood sees thou this letter. Take it,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: I pray thee and give the king this fatal plotted scrawl.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: Now question me no more. We are a spite. There
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: comes a parcel of our hopeful booty, which dreads not
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: yet their lives destruction.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Enter Basianos and Lavinia, Oh.
• 50:17
  Speaker 6: My sweet more sweeter to meet and life no more.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Great Empress Basianas comes, be cross with him, and I'll
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: go fetch thy sons to back thy quarrels, whatsoever they be.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Exit.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Who have we here Rome's royal empress, unfurnished of her
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: well beseeming troop, or is it dian habited like her
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: with abandoned her holy groves to see the general hunting
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: in this forest.
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: Saucy control of my private steps. Had I the power
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: that some say Diane had, thy temples should be planted
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: presently with horns, as was Action's, and the hounds should
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: drive upon thy new transformed limbs unmannerly intruder, as.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: Thou art under your patience, Gentle empress, tis thought you
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: have a goodly gift in horning, and to be doubted
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: that your more and you are singled forth to try experiments.
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: Jove shields your husband from his hounds today tis pity
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: they should take him for a stag.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Believe me, Queen, your soathe Sumerian doth make your honor
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: of his body's hue spotted, detested and abominable. Why are
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: you sequestered from all your train, dismounted from your snow white,
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: goodly steed, and wandered hither to an obscure plot, accompanied
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: but with a barbarous more? If foul desire had not conducted.
• 51:44
  Speaker 5: You, and being intercepted in your sport, great reason that
• 51:49
  Speaker 5: my noble lord be raided for sauciness. I pray you
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: let us hence and let her joy her raven colored love.
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: This valley fits the purpose passing well.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: The king, my brother shall have notice of this I.
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: For these lips have made him not that long good
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: king to be so mightily abused.
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: Why I have patience to endure all this?
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Enter Chiron and Demetrius. How now dear Sovereign and our
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: gracious mother, Why doth your highness look so pale and worn?
• 52:25
  Speaker 6: Have I not reason think you to look pale? These
• 52:28
  Speaker 6: two have ticed me hither to displace a barren, detested vailey.
• 52:33
  Speaker 6: See this, the trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: overcome with moss and baleful mistletoe. Here never shines the sun.
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: Here nothing breathes unless the nightly owl of fatal raven.
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: And when they showed me this abhorred pit, they told me,
• 52:53
  Speaker 6: here at bedtime of the night, a thousand fiends, a
• 52:57
  Speaker 6: thousand hissing snakes, ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins
• 53:03
  Speaker 6: would make such fearful and confused crist as any mortal
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: body hearing it should straight fall mad or else die suddenly.
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: No sooner had they told this hellish tale. But straight
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: they told me they would bind me here unto the
• 53:22
  Speaker 6: body of a dismal ew and leave me to this
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: miserable death. And then they called me foul, adulterous, lascivious, goth,
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: and all the bitterest terms that ever ere did here
• 53:35
  Speaker 6: to such effect. And had you not by wondrous fortune
• 53:39
  Speaker 6: come this vengeance on me, had they executed revenge it
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: as you love your mother's life, or be he not
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: henceforth called my children.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: This is a witness that I am I son stabs Barsianas,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: and this.
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: For me struck stre Ooh.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Also stabs Barsianus. Who dies?
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: I come samere miss nay barbarous Tamera, for no name
• 54:12
  Speaker 5: fits thy nature but thy own.
• 54:14
  Speaker 6: Give me thy poniard. You shall know, my boys, your
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: mother's hand shall right your mother's wrong.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Stay, Madam, here is more belongs to her. First thrash
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: the corn, then after burn the straw. This minion stood
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: upon her chastity, upon her nuptial vow her loyalty, and
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: with that painted hope braves your mightiness. And shall she
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: carry this unto her grave?
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: And if she knew I would I want on eunuch
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: drag head to her husband, to some secret hale of
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: maker's dead trunk, yellow to our lust.
• 54:52
  Speaker 6: But when you have the honey you desire, let not
• 54:55
  Speaker 6: this wasp outlive us both to sting.
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: A, won't you, madam? We will make that sure, Come
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: mistress thou for force, we will enjoy that nice, preserved
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: hodesty of yours.
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: Oh Tamerah, thou barrast a woman's face.
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: I will not hear her speak away with.
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: Her, sweet lords entreat her. Hear me but a word.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: Listen, fair madam, Let it be your glory to see
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: her tears? What be your heart to them? As unrelenting
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: flint to drops of rain?
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: When did the tigers young ones teach the damn? Oh,
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: do not learn her wrath? She taught at thee The
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: milk thou suckest from her did turned to marble, even
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: at thy teet thou hadst thy tyranny. Yet every mother
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: breeds not sons alike to chirn Do thou entreat her
• 55:52
  Speaker 5: show a woman's pity?
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: What wouldst thou have be? Proved thyself a bastard?
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: Tis true? The raven doth not have lark? Yet have
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: I heard?
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: Could I find it? Now? The lion moved with pity,
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: did endure to have his princely paws pared all away?
• 56:13
  Speaker 5: Some say that raven's foster forlorn children the wildst their
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: own birds famish in their nests. Oh be to me,
• 56:23
  Speaker 5: though thy hard heart says, no, nothing so kind but
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: something pitiful.
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: I know not what it means.
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: Away with her, Oh, let me teach thee for my
• 56:36
  Speaker 5: father's sake, that gave THEE life when well he might
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: have slain. THEE be not obterate opened thy deaf ears.
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: Hadst thou in person never offended me, even for his sake?
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: Am I pitiless? Remember, boys, I poured forth tears in
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: vain to save your brother from the sacrifice. But fearce
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: and dron becus would not relent. Therefore, away with her
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: and use her as you will, the worse to her,
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: the better loved of me.
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: Oh, Tamera, be called a gentle queen, and with thine
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: own hands kill me in this place. For tis not
• 57:19
  Speaker 5: life that I have begged so long, for I was
• 57:23
  Speaker 5: slain when Bassianus died.
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: What begst thou, then, fond woman, let me go?
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: Tis present death I beg, And one thing more, that
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: womanhood denies my tongue to tell, Oh, keep me from
• 57:39
  Speaker 5: their worse than killing lust, and tumble me into some
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: loathsome pit where never man's eye may behold my body.
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: Do this and be a charitable murderer.
• 57:52
  Speaker 6: So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee. No,
• 57:59
  Speaker 6: let them set this fight, the.
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Lust on thee away, For thou hast stayed us here
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: too long.
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: No grace, no womanhood, a beastly creature, the blood, an
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: enemy to our general name.
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: Confusion fall they thet I'll stop your mouth, bring down
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: her husband. This is the hole where Aaron bid us
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: hide him.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: They put Bassianas's body in the pit and exit, carrying
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: off Lavinia.
• 58:28
  Speaker 6: Farewell, my sons, see that you make her sure. Never
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: let my heart know married cheer indeed, till all the
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: andronic y be made away. Now will I hence to
• 58:41
  Speaker 6: seek my lovely more and let my spleenful sons? This
• 58:46
  Speaker 6: troll deflower.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: Exit, enter Aaron with two of Titus's sons, Quintus and Martius.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Come on, my lords, the better foot before straight, will
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: I bring you to the law from pit where I
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: spied the panther fast asleep.
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: My sight is very dull, whatever it bodes.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: And mine, I promise you would it not for shame?
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: Could I leave our sport to sleep?
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Awhile he falls into the pit?
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: What what I've fallen? What subtle hole is this? Whose
• 59:20
  Speaker 6: mouth is covered with rude growing briers, upon whose leaves
• 59:23
  Speaker 6: are drops of new shed blood, as fresh as morning dew,
• 59:27
  Speaker 6: as still one flowers a very fatal place. It seems
• 59:32
  Speaker 6: to me speak, brother, hast thou heard thee.
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: With the fall, Oh, brother with the dismist object, hurt
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: that ever I with sight made heart lament Aaron aside?
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: Now will I fetch thy king to find them here?
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: That here by me have a likely guess? How these
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: were they that made away his brother exit?
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: Why dost not comfort me and help me out from
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: this unhan fallowed and bloody stained hole.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: I am surprised with an uncouth fear, A chilling sweat
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 6: over runs my trembling joints. My heart suspects more than
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 6: mine eye can see.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: To prove thou hast a true divining heart? Aaron, and
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: thou look down into this dead and see a fearful
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: sight of blood and death.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: Aaron is gone, and my compassionate heart will not permit
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 6: mine eyes once to behold the thing? Where'd it? Trembles
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 6: by surmise? Oh tell me who it is? For? Never
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 6: till now was I a child to fear?
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: I know not what, Lord, but seenest lies be rayed
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: in blood, all on a heap, like to a slaughtered lamb,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: in this detested, dark, blood drinking pit.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: If it be dark how dost thou not this.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: He upon his bloody finger, heat of wear a precious
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: ring that lightens all the whole, which like a taper
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: in some morning, but doth shine upon the dead man's
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: earthy cheeks, and show the ragged entrails of the pit
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: so pale did shine the moon on Pyramus when he,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: by night lay bathed in maiden's blood. Oh brother, help
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: me with thy fainting hand. If fear hath made THEE
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: faint as me, it hath out of this fel devouring receptacle,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: as hateless Cassiti's misty mouth.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 6: Reach me thy hand, that I may help thee out, or,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 6: wanting strength to do THEE so much good, I may
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 6: be plucked into the swallowing womb of this steep pit,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 6: poor Bassiano's grave. I have no strength to pluck thee
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 6: to the brink.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: Nor I no strength to climb without thy.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 6: Help thy hand. Once more, I will not lose again
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 6: till thou art here aloft or eye blow. Thou canst
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 6: not come to me. I come to thee.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: Falls in, enter the Emperor Saturnino's and aaron the more
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: with me. I'll see what hale is here, and what
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: he is that now is left into it? Say who
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: art thou that lately didst descend into this gaping.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: Hollow of the earth, The unhappy sons of old Andronicus
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: brought hither in a most unlucky hour to find thy
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: brother Basianus dead, My.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: Brother dead, I know thou dost, But jess, he and
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: his lady both are at the lodge upon the north
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: side of this pleasant chase. Tis not an hour since
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: I left them there.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: We know not where you left them, all alive, but
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: out alas here have we found him dead?
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: Enter Tamaraan, Titus, Andronicus, and Lucius.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 6: Where is my lord the king.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: Here, Tamarah, though grieved with killing grief?
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 6: Where is thy brother Bassianus?
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: Now to the bottom, dost thou search my wound? Poor
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Basianus here lies murdered.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 6: Ah, Then, all too late I bring this fatal writ
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 6: the complant of this timeless tragedy, And wonder greatly that
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 6: man's face can fold in pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: She giveth Saturninus a letter Saturninus reads, And if we
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: miss to meet him, handsomely, sweet huntsman bossy on Us,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: tis we mean do thou so much as dig the
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: grave for him? Thou knowest our meaning.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 10: Look for thy reward.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: Among the nettles at the elder tree which overshades the
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: mouth of that same pit where we decreed to bury
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: bassian Us. Do this and purchase us thy lasting friends,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: Oh Tamarai, was ever heard the like this the pit
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: and this the elder tree, look sirs, if you can
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: find the huntsman out that should have murdered bassy on us.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: Here, my gracious lord, here is the bag of.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: Gold showing it Saturninus two Titus two of thy whelps
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: fell curs of bloody kind have here bereft, My brother
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: of his life, says, drag them from the pit unto
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: the prison there. Let them bide until we have devised
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: some never heard of torturing pain for him?
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 6: What are they in this pit? O wondrous thing? How
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: easy the murder is discovered.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: Hi, Emperor, upon my feeble knee, I beg this boon
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: with tears not lightly shed, that this fell fault of
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: my accursed sons, accursed if the fault be proved in them.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: If it be proved, you see it as a parent
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: who found this letter tamarow.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 6: Was it you Andronicus himself did take it up?
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: I did, my Lord. Yet let me be there bail,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: for by my father's reverent to my vow, they shall
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: be ready at your Highness's will to answer their suspicion
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: with their lives.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: Thou shalt not bail them.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 10: See thou follow me.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: Some bring the murdered body. Some the murderers. Let them
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: not speak a word. The guilty is plain, For by
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: my soul were there worse end than death, that end
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: upon them should be executed.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 6: Andronicus, I will entreat the king. Fear not thy sons.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 6: They shall do well enough.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: Come Lucius, come, stay not to talk with them.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: Exude severally attendants bearing the body. Scene four, another part
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: of the forest. Enter the Empress's sons, Demetrius and Chirn
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: with Lavinia, her hands cut off and her tongue cut
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: out and ravished. So now go and tell if thy
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: tongue can speak, who twalls that cut thy tongue and
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: ravish thee?
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: Write down thy mind, beray thy eating so and if
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 4: thy stumps will let thee play, describe.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: See how his signs in token she can scrawl.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: Go home, call for sweet water, wash thy hands.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: She have no tongue to call, nor hands to wash,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: And so let's leave her to her silent walks.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 4: And for my cause I should go hang myself.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: If thou hadst hands to help thee knit the cord,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: exunt Chiron and Demetrius enter Marcus from hunting.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: Who is this my niece that flies away so fast?
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: Cousin a word? Where is your husband?
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 11: Oh? If I do dream, but all my wealth would
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 11: wake me? If I do wake, some planet strike me down,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 11: that I may slumber an eternal sleep. Speak, gentle, nice,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 11: what stern ungentle hands have locked and hued? And may
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 11: thy body bear of for two branches those sweet ornaments
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 11: whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in, and
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 11: might not gain so great a happiness as half thy love?
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 11: Why doest not speak to me alas a crimson river
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 11: of warm blood, like to a bubbling fountain stirred with wind,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 11: doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips, coming and
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 11: going with thy honey breath. But shaw, some turius hath
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 11: to flower thee, And lest thou shouldst detect and cut
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 11: thy tongue. Ah, Now thou turn'st away thy face for shame,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 11: And notwithstanding all the loss of blood is from a
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 11: conduit with three issuing the spouts. Yet do thy cheeks
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 11: look red as Titan's face, blushing to be encountered with
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 11: a cloud? Shall I speak for thee? Shall I say
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 11: tis sow, Oh, that I knew thy heart and knew
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 11: the beast, that I might rail at him to ease
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 11: my mind. Sorrow concealed like an oven stopped, doth burn
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 11: the heart to cinders. Where it is fair Philamella, why
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 11: she had lost her tongue and in a tedious sampler
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 11: sowed her mind. But lovely niece, that mean is cut
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 11: from thee, A crafter tereus cousin hast thou met had
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 11: he had cut those pretty fingers off, that could have
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 11: better sowed than philamel Oh. Had the monster's seen those
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  Speaker 11: hands tremble like aspen leaves upon a lute and make
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  Speaker 11: the silk and strings delight to kiss them, he would
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  Speaker 11: not then have touched them for his life. Or had
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  Speaker 11: he heard the heavenly harmony which that sweet tongue hath made,
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  Speaker 11: he would have dropped his knife and fell asleep as
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  Speaker 11: Cerberus at the Thracian poet's feet come, let us go
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  Speaker 11: and bake thy father blind.
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  Speaker 4: For such a sight will blind at father's eye. One
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  Speaker 4: hour's storm will drown. The fragrant meads, what will whole
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  Speaker 4: months of tears thy father's eyes? Do not draw back,
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  Speaker 4: for we will mourn with thee Oh, could our mourning
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  Speaker 4: ease thy misery?
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  Speaker 1: Exuned? And of act too, Act three of the Tragedy
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  Speaker 1: of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Act three,
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  Speaker 1: Scene one, Rome a street enter the judges and senators,
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  Speaker 1: with Titus's two sons, Quintus and Marcius bound passing on
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  Speaker 1: the stage to the place of execution, and Titus going
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  Speaker 1: before pleading.
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  Speaker 3: Hear me gravefather's noble tribune. Stay for pity of mine age,
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  Speaker 3: whose youth was spent in dangerous wars whilst you securely slept,
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  Speaker 3: for my blood in Rome's great quarrel shed, for all
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  Speaker 3: the frosty nights that I have watched, and for these
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  Speaker 3: bitter tears which now you see filling the aged wrinkles
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  Speaker 3: in my cheeks, be pitiful to my condemned sons, whose
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  Speaker 3: souls are not corrupted, as Tis thought. For two and
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  Speaker 3: twenty sons, I never wept, because they died in Honor's
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  Speaker 3: lofty bed.
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  Speaker 1: Andronicus lieth down, and the judges pass by him, exuned
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  Speaker 1: with prisoners. As Titus continue speaking.
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  Speaker 3: For these tribunes. In the dust, I write my heart's
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  Speaker 3: deep languor and my soul's sad tears. Let my tears
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  Speaker 3: staunch the earth's dry appetite. My son's sweet blood will
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  Speaker 3: make it shame and blush, Oh Earth. I will be
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  Speaker 3: friendly more with rain that shall distill from these two
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  Speaker 3: ancient urns, the youthful april shell with all his showers.
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  Speaker 3: In summer's drought, I'll drop upon still in winter with
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: warm tears, I'll melt the snow and keep eternal springtime
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  Speaker 3: on thy face. So thou refuse to drink my dear
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  Speaker 3: son's blood.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Lucius with his weapon drawn.
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  Speaker 3: Oh reverend tribunes, Oh gentle aged men, unbind my sons,
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  Speaker 3: reverse the doom of death, and let me say that
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  Speaker 3: never wept before. My tears are now prevailing.
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  Speaker 5: Oritors, oh noble father, you lament in vain the tribunes
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  Speaker 5: hear you not, no man is by, and you recount
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  Speaker 5: your sorrows to a stone.
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  Speaker 3: Ah Lucius, for thy brothers, let me plead crave tribunes
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  Speaker 3: once more.
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  Speaker 5: I entreat of you, my gracious lord. No tribune hears
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  Speaker 5: you speak.
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  Speaker 3: Why did no matter man? If they did here, they
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  Speaker 3: would not mark me. If they did mark, they would
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  Speaker 3: not pity me. Yet plead I must and bootless unto them.
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  Speaker 3: Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones, who thought
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  Speaker 3: they cannot answer my distress? Yet in some sort they
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  Speaker 3: are better than the tribunes, for that they will not
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  Speaker 3: intercept my tale. When I do weep, they humbly at
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  Speaker 3: my feet, receive my tears and seem to weep with me.
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  Speaker 3: And were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could
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  Speaker 3: afford no tribunes like to these. A stone is soft
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  Speaker 3: as wax, tribunes more hard than stones. A stone is silent,
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  Speaker 3: and offendeth not, and tribunes with their tongues doom ment
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  Speaker 3: to death. But where force dendest thou with thy weapon
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  Speaker 3: drawn to.
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  Speaker 5: Rescue my two brothers from their death, from which attempts
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  Speaker 5: the judges have pronounced my everlasting doom of banishment.
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  Speaker 3: O happy math, they have befriended thee. Why foolish Lucius,
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  Speaker 3: dost thou not perceive that Rome is but a wilderness
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  Speaker 3: of tigers. Tigers must pray, and Rome affords no prey
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  Speaker 3: but me and mine? How happy art thou then, from
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  Speaker 3: these devourers to be banished? But who comes with our
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  Speaker 3: brother Marcus?
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  Speaker 1: Here enter Marcus with Lavinia, Titus, prepare thy aged eyes
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  Speaker 1: to weep.
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  Speaker 4: But if not so thy noble heart to break. I
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  Speaker 4: bring consuming sorrow to thine age.
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  Speaker 3: Will it consume me? Let me see it?
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  Speaker 4: Then this was thy daughter?
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  Speaker 3: Why Marcus?
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  Speaker 4: So she is I me?
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  Speaker 5: This object kills me?
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  Speaker 3: Faint hearted boy, Rise and look upon her, speak Lavinia,
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  Speaker 3: or to curse it? Hand hath made thee handless in
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  Speaker 3: thy for the's sight? What fool had added water to
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  Speaker 3: the sea or brought a faggot to bright burning Troy.
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  Speaker 3: My grief was at the height before thou camest, and
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  Speaker 3: now like Nilus, it disdained bounds. Give me a sword.
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  Speaker 3: I'll chop off my hands too, for they have fought
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  Speaker 3: for Rome, and all in vain that they have nursed
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  Speaker 3: this woe in feeding life in bootless prayer, have they
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  Speaker 3: been held up, and they have served me to effortless use.
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  Speaker 3: Now all the service I require of them is that
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  Speaker 3: the one will help to cut the other. Tis well, Lavinia,
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  Speaker 3: that thou hast no hands for hands to do rome
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  Speaker 3: service is but vain.
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  Speaker 5: Speak, gentle sister, who hath martyred thee hm.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that delightful engine of her thoughts, that blabbed them
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  Speaker 4: with such pleasing eloquence, is torn from forth that pretty
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  Speaker 4: hollow cage, where like a sweet melodious bird it sung
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  Speaker 4: sweet varied notes and chatting every ear.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, say thou for her, who hath done the deed?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Thus I found her straying in the park, seeking
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  Speaker 4: to hide herself, as doth the deer that hath receiv'd
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  Speaker 4: some unrecurring wound.
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  Speaker 3: It was my dear, and he that wounded her hath
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  Speaker 3: hurt me more than had he kill'd me dead. For
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  Speaker 3: now I stand as one upon a rock environed with
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  Speaker 3: a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxen tide grow
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  Speaker 3: wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will
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  Speaker 3: in his brinish bowl swallow him this way to death.
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  Speaker 3: My wretched sons are gone. Here stands my other son,
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  Speaker 3: a banished man, And here my brother weeping at my woes.
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  Speaker 3: But that which gives my soul the greatest spurn'd is
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  Speaker 3: dear the vineyar dearer than my soul. Had I but
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  Speaker 3: seen thy picture in this plight, it would have maddened me.
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  Speaker 3: What shall I do? Now? I behold thy lively body.
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  Speaker 3: So thou hast no hands to wipe away thy tears,
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  Speaker 3: nor tongue to tell me who hath martyrd thee thy husband.
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  Speaker 3: He is dead, and for his death thy brothers are
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  Speaker 3: condemn'd and dead by this.
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  Speaker 5: All.
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  Speaker 3: Look Marcus Ah, Saint Lucia's look on her. When I
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  Speaker 3: did name her brothers, then fresh tears stood on her cheeks,
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  Speaker 3: as doth the honey dew upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd.
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  Speaker 4: Perchance she weeps because they killed her husband. Perchance because
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  Speaker 4: she knows them innocent.
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  Speaker 3: If they did kill thy husband, then be joyful, because
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  Speaker 3: the law hath taken revenge on them. No, no, they
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  Speaker 3: would not do so foul a deed. Witness the sorrow
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  Speaker 3: that this system makes. Gentle Leviniard, Let me kiss thy lips,
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  Speaker 3: or make some sign how I may do the ease
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  Speaker 3: shall I, good uncle, and thy brother Lucius, and thou
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  Speaker 3: and I sit round about some fountain, looking all downwards
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  Speaker 3: to behold our cheeks, How they are stained like meadows,
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  Speaker 3: yet not dry, with miry slime left on them by
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  Speaker 3: a flood. And in the fountain, shall we gaze so
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  Speaker 3: long till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness
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  Speaker 3: and made a brine pit with our bitter tears? Or
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: shall we cut away our hands like thine? Or shall
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  Speaker 3: we bite our tongues and in dumb shows past the
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  Speaker 3: remainder of our hateful days? What should we do? Let
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  Speaker 3: us that have our tongues plot some device of further
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  Speaker 3: misery to make us wonder that in time to come.
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  Speaker 5: Sweet father, cease your tears, for at your grief, see
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  Speaker 5: how my wretched sister sobs and.
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  Speaker 4: Weeps patience, dearndes, good Titus, dry thine eyes.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, Marcus, Marcus, brother, Well, I WoT thy napkin cannot
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  Speaker 12: drink a tear of mine, for thou poor man, hast
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  Speaker 12: drowned it with thine own.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, my lavinia, I will wipe thy cheeks.
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  Speaker 3: Mark Marcus, Mark, I understand her signs. Had she a
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  Speaker 3: tongue to speak. Now, would she say that to her brother,
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  Speaker 3: which I said to thee. His nepkin, with his true
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  Speaker 3: tears all be wet, can do no service on her
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  Speaker 3: sorrowful cheeks. Oh what a s thee of woe? Is
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  Speaker 3: this as far from help as limbo is from bliss.
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  Speaker 1: Enter erin the more.
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  Speaker 2: Alone, Titus Andronicus, my lord, the Emperor sends THEE this
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  Speaker 2: wat that if thou love thy sons, let Marcus, Lucius,
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  Speaker 2: or thyself, oh Titus, or any one of you, chop
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  Speaker 2: off your hand and send it to thy king. He
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  Speaker 2: for the same will send THEE hither both thy sons alive,
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  Speaker 2: and that shall be their ransom for their fault.
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  Speaker 3: Oh gracious Emperor, Oh gentle erin did ever raven sing
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  Speaker 3: so like a lark that gives sweet tidings of the
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  Speaker 3: sons a prize? With all my heart, send the Emperor
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  Speaker 3: my hand. Good erin wilt thou help to chop it off?
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  Speaker 5: Stay Father, for that noble hand of thine that hath
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  Speaker 5: thrown down so many enemies, shall not be sent My
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  Speaker 5: hand will so the turn. My youth can better spare
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  Speaker 5: my blood than you, and therefore mine shall save my
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 5: brother's lives.
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  Speaker 4: Which of your hands hath not defended robe and reared
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  Speaker 4: aloft the bloody battle axe, writing destruction on the enemy's castle. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: none of both. But out of high dessert my hand
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 4: hath been but idle. Let it serve to ransom my
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 4: two defews from their death. Then have I kept it
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 4: to a worthy end? Nay?
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  Speaker 2: Come, agree whose hand shall go along? For fear they
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: die before their Pathon?
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  Speaker 4: Come, my hand shall go by heaven.
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  Speaker 5: It shall not go.
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  Speaker 3: Sirs, strive no more such withered herbs as these are,
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  Speaker 3: meet for plucking up. And therefore mine.
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  Speaker 5: Sweet father, if I shall be thought thy son, let
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  Speaker 5: me redeem my brothers, both from death.
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  Speaker 4: And for our father's sake and mother's care. Now let
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  Speaker 4: me show a brother's love to thee.
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  Speaker 3: Agreed between you. I will spare my hand.
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  Speaker 5: Then i'll go fetch an axe.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 4: But I will use the axe exhude.
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  Speaker 8: Lucius and Marcus, come hither, Aron, I'll deceive them both.
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  Speaker 8: Lend me thy hand, and I will give thee mine
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  Speaker 8: eron aside.
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  Speaker 2: If that be called deceit, I will be honest, and
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: never whilst I live deceivements. So but I'll deceive you
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  Speaker 2: in another sort. And that you'll say a half an
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  Speaker 2: hour pass.
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  Speaker 1: He cuts off Titus's hand. Enter Lucius and Marcus again.
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  Speaker 3: Now stray your strife. What shall be is dispatched? Good
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  Speaker 3: erin give his majesty my hand. Tell him it was
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  Speaker 3: a hand that warded him from thousand dangers. Bid him
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  Speaker 3: bury it. More hath it merited than let it have.
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  Speaker 3: As for my say, I account of them as jewels
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 3: purchased at an easy price. And yet dear too, because
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 3: I bought mine own, I.
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  Speaker 2: Go and rnakas and for thy hand look by and
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  Speaker 2: by to have thy sons with.
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  Speaker 1: Thee aside there health I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how this villaani doth fat me with the very
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: thoughts of it that fools to good and fair man,
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: call for grace. Aaron will have his soul black like
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: his face.
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  Speaker 1: Exit.
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  Speaker 3: Oh here, I lift this one hand up to Heaven,
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  Speaker 3: and bow this feeble ruin to the earth. If any
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  Speaker 3: power pities wretched tears to that, I call to what
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  Speaker 3: wouldst thou kneel with me? Do then, dear heart, for
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  Speaker 3: heaven shall hear our prayers always our size. We'll breathe
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 3: at the welkin dim and stain the sun with fog
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 3: as sometime clouds when they do hug him in their
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 3: melting bosoms.
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  Speaker 4: Oh brother, speak with possiverity, and do not break into
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  Speaker 4: these deep extremes.
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  Speaker 3: Is not my sorrow deep having no bottom? Then be
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  Speaker 3: my passions bottomless with them.
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  Speaker 4: But yet let reason govern thy lament.
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  Speaker 3: If there were reasons for these miserass then into limits?
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  Speaker 3: Could I bind my woes? When heaven doth weep, doth
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  Speaker 3: not the earth o'erflow? If the winds a rage, doth
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  Speaker 3: not the sea wax mad? Threatening the welkin with his
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 3: big swollen face, and wilt thou have a reason for
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  Speaker 3: this coil. I am the sea hark, how her size
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 3: doth flow? She is the weeping welkin eye the earth.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 3: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs? Then
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 3: must my earth, with her continual tears, become a deluge,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: overflowed and drowned. For why my bowels cannot hide her woes?
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  Speaker 3: But like a drunkard, must I vomit them? Then give
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 3: me leave, for losers will have leave to ease their
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 3: stomachs with their bitter tongues.
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  Speaker 1: Enter a messenger with two heads and a hand worthy andronicus.
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  Speaker 1: Ill art thou repaid for that good hand thou sentest
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  Speaker 1: the Emperor. Here are the heads of thy two noble sons,
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  Speaker 1: and here's thy hand in scorn to thee sent back
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  Speaker 1: thy grief, their sports, thy resolution marked that woe is
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  Speaker 1: me to think upon thy woes more than remembrance of
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  Speaker 1: my farm. Those death exit.
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  Speaker 4: Now let hot et na cool incisory, and be my
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 4: heart an ever burning hell. These miseries are more than
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  Speaker 4: may be born. To weep with them. That weep doth
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  Speaker 4: ease some deal, But sorrow flouted at is double death.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, that this sight should make so deep a wound,
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  Speaker 5: and yet detested life not shrink thereat, that ever death
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  Speaker 5: should let life bear his name. Where life hath no
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 5: more interest but to breathe.
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  Speaker 1: Lavinia kisses Titus.
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  Speaker 4: Alas, poor heart, That kiss is comfortless as frozen water
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  Speaker 4: to a starved snake.
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  Speaker 3: Well, when will this fearful slumber heaven end?
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  Speaker 4: Now? Farewell flattery die, Andronicus, thou dost not slumber. See
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 4: thy two sons heads, thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter,
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  Speaker 4: Here thy other baddished son, with this dear sight, struck
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 4: pale and bloodless, and thy brother I even like a
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 4: stony image cold and numb. Ah, Now no more will
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 4: I control thy griefs, rent off thy silver hair, thy
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 4: gother hand gnawing with thy teeth, and be this dismal
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 4: sight the closing up of our most wretched eyes. Now
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 4: is a time to storm. Why art thou still?
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  Speaker 3: Ha ha ha?
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 4: Why dost thou laugh? It fits not with this hour?
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  Speaker 3: Why I have not another tear to shed? Besides, this
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 3: sorrow is an enemy. And would you surp upon my
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 3: watery eyes and make them blind with tributary tears? Then
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 3: which way shall I find revenge's cave? For these two
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 3: heads do seem to speak to me and threaten me.
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  Speaker 3: I shall never come to bliss till all these mischiefs
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 3: be returned again, even in their throats that have committed them. Come,
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  Speaker 3: let me see what task I have to do. You
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  Speaker 3: heavy people circle me about that I may turn me
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  Speaker 3: to each one of you and swear unto my soul
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: to right your wrongs that thou is made. Come, brother,
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  Speaker 3: take ahead, and in this hand the other will I bear,
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  Speaker 3: and livinya thou shalt be employed in these arms. Bear
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 3: thou my hand, sweet wench between thy teeth. As for
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 3: thee boy, go get thee from my sight. Thou art
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 3: an exile, and thou must not stay Hi to the
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 3: goths and raise an army here. And if you love
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  Speaker 3: me as I think you do, let's kiss and part,
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  Speaker 3: for we have much to do.
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  Speaker 1: Exunt Titus, Marcus, and Lavinia.
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  Speaker 5: Farewell Andronicus, my noble father, the woefulest man that ever
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  Speaker 5: lived in Rome. Farewell proud Rome, till Lucius come again.
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  Speaker 5: He loves his pledges dearer than his life. Farewell Lavinia,
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  Speaker 5: my noble sister. Oh would thou wert hast thoutofore hast been?
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 5: But now nor Lucius nor Lavinia lives but in oblivion
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 5: and hateful griefs. If Lucius live, he will requite your
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 5: wrongs and make proud Saturnine and his Empress beg at
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 5: the gates like Tarquin and his queen. Now will I
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 5: to the Goths and raise a power to be revenged
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 5: on Rome and Saturnine.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Scene two.
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  Speaker 5: Row a room in Titus's.
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  Speaker 1: House, A banquet set out. Enter Titus Andronicus, Marcus, Lavinia
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  Speaker 1: and the boy young Lucios.
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  Speaker 3: So so now sit and look you eat no more
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  Speaker 3: than will preserve just so much strength in us as
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  Speaker 3: will revenge these bitter woes of ours. Marcus, unknit that
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  Speaker 3: sorrow wreathed not thy niece, and I poor creatures want
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  Speaker 3: our hands and cannot passionate our tenfold grief with folded arms.
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  Speaker 3: This poor right hand of mine is left to tyrannize
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 3: upon my breast, who when my heart, or mad with misery,
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  Speaker 3: beats in this hollow prison of my flesh, then thus
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  Speaker 3: I dump it down, lou map of woe that thus
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  Speaker 3: does talk in signs. When thy poor heart beats with
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 3: outrageous beating, thou canst not strike it thus to make
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  Speaker 3: it still? Wound it with sighing girl, kill it with groans,
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  Speaker 3: or get some little knife between thy teeth, and just
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  Speaker 3: against thy heart, make thou a whole, that all the
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  Speaker 3: tears that thy poor eyes let fall may run into
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  Speaker 3: that sink, and soaking in drown the lamenting fool in
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  Speaker 3: sea salt tears.
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  Speaker 4: Fi brother, THI teach her not thus to lay such
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  Speaker 4: violent hands upon her tender life.
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  Speaker 3: How now has sorrow made thee dot already? Why Marcus,
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  Speaker 3: no man should be mad? But I what violent hands
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  Speaker 3: can she lay on her life? Or wherefore dost thou
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  Speaker 3: urge the name of hands. To bid eneas tell the
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 3: tale twice are how Troy was burnt and he made miserable. Oh,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 3: handle not the theme to talk of hands, lest we
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 3: remember still that we have none fi fi how frantically
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  Speaker 3: I square my talk, as if we should forget we
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  Speaker 3: had no hands. If Marcus did not name the word
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  Speaker 3: of hands, come, let's fall to and gentle girl eat this.
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  Speaker 3: Here is no drink. M hark Marcus what she says.
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  Speaker 3: I can interpret all her martyred signs. She says she
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  Speaker 3: drinks no other drink, but tears brood with her sorrow
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  Speaker 3: meshed upon her cheeks. Speechless complainer, I will learn thy
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 3: thought in thy dumb action. Will I be as perfect
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 3: as begging hermits in their holy prayers? Thou shalt not sign,
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  Speaker 3: nor hold thy stumps to heaven, nor wink, nor nod,
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  Speaker 3: nor kneel, nor make a sign. But iye of these
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 3: will rest an alphabet, and by still practice learned to
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 3: know thy meaning.
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  Speaker 6: Good Grandsire, leave these bitter deep lements. Make my aunt
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  Speaker 6: Mary with some pleasing.
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  Speaker 4: Tail alas a tender boy in passion moved doth weep
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  Speaker 4: to see his grandsire's heaviness.
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  Speaker 3: Peace, tender seplin, Thou art made of tears, and tears
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 3: will quickly melt thy life away.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus strikes the dish with a knife.
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  Speaker 3: Dost thou strike at Marcus with thy knife?
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  Speaker 4: At that that I have killed, my lord a fly.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, John Dee murderer, Thou kill'st my heart. Mine eyes
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 3: are cloyd with view of tyranny, A deed of death
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  Speaker 3: done on the innocent becomes not Titus's brother. Get thee gone,
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  Speaker 3: I see thou art not for my company.
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  Speaker 4: Alas, my lord, I have but killed a fly?
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 3: What how with that fly had a father and mother?
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 3: How would he hang his slender gilded wings and buzz
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 3: lamenting doings in the air, Poor harmless fly, that, with
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 3: his pretty buzzy melody came here to make us merry,
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  Speaker 3: and thou hast killed him.
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  Speaker 4: Pardon me, sir, twas a black, ill favored fly, like
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  Speaker 4: to the Empress war Therefore I killed him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh oh, oh, Then pardon me for reprehending thee, for
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: thou hast done a charitable teed. Give me thy knife.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 3: I will insult on him, flattering myself as if it
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 3: were the more. Come hither purposely to poison me there's
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 3: for thyself, and that's for tamera Ah Sirah. Yet I
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 3: think we are not brought so low, but that between
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 3: us we can kill a fly that comes in the
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 3: lightness of a cold black more.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 4: Alas poor man grief hath so wrought on him, he
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 4: takes false shadows for true substances.
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  Speaker 3: Come take away, Lavigna, go with me. I owe to
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 3: thy closet and go read with the said stories chanced
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 3: in the times of old. Come by and go with me.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 3: Thy sight is young, and thou shalt read when mine
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 3: begin to dazl exuned.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act three, Act four of the Tragedy of
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Act four,
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  Speaker 1: Scene one, Rome before titus house. Enter young Lucius and
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: Lavinia running after him, and the boy flies from her
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  Speaker 1: with his books under his arm. Enter Titus and Marcus.
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  Speaker 6: Help grandsire, help my aunt. Lavinia follows me everywhere. I
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 6: know not why, good Uncle Marcus, see how swift she comes. Alas,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 6: sweet aunt, I know not what you mean.
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  Speaker 4: Stand by me, Lucius, do not fear thine aunt.
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  Speaker 3: She loves THEE boy too well to do THEE harm Ay.
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  Speaker 6: When my father was in Rome, she did.
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  Speaker 4: What means my niece Lavinia by these signs h.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 3: Fear her, not, Lucius. Somewhat doth she mean? See Lucius,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 3: see how much she makes of THEE. Some whither would
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 3: she have THEE go with her Ah boy? Cornelia never
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 3: with more care read to her son than she hath
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 3: read to the sweet poetry and tullies oratore?
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  Speaker 4: Canst thou not guess wherefore she applies THEE.
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  Speaker 6: Thus, my Lord, I know not I nor can I guess,
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  Speaker 6: unless some fit or frenzy do possess her. For I
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 6: have heard my grandsire say full oft extremity of griefs
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 6: would make men mad, and I have read that Hecuba
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 6: of Troy ran mad for sorrow that made me to fear. Although,
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  Speaker 6: my Lord, I know my noble aunt loves me as
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 6: dear as ever my mother did and would not but
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  Speaker 6: in fury fright my youth, which made me down to
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 6: throw my books and fly causeless perhaps, But pardon me,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 6: sweet aunt and madam. If my uncle Marcus go, I
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  Speaker 6: will most willingly attend your ladyship, Lucius, I will.
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  Speaker 1: Lavinia turns over with her stumps the books which Lucius
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  Speaker 1: has let fall.
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  Speaker 3: How now, Lvignya Marcus? What means this? Some book there
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 3: is that she desires to see? Which is it? Girl?
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  Speaker 2: Of these?
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  Speaker 3: Open them? Boy? But thou art deeper red and better skilled?
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  Speaker 3: Come and take choice of all my library, And so
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 3: beguile thy sorrow till the heavens revealed the damned contriver
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 3: of this deed? Why lift she upper arms? In sequence?
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  Speaker 4: Thus? I think she means that there were more than
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 4: one confederate, and the fact Aye wore there was or
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 4: else to heaven? She hears them for revenge?
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  Speaker 2: Lucius?
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  Speaker 3: What book is that she tosseth?
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  Speaker 6: So grandsire?
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  Speaker 1: T of it?
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  Speaker 6: Madamorphosis? My mother gave it.
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  Speaker 4: Me for love of her that's gone? Perhaps she called
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 4: it from among the rest.
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  Speaker 3: Soft So bitterly she turns the leaves help her? What
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  Speaker 3: would she find? Olivinya, shall I read this is the
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  Speaker 3: tragic tale of things and treats of terro Us, treason
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  Speaker 3: and his rape, ah and rape I fear was root
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  Speaker 3: of thy annoy see brother.
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  Speaker 4: See note how she quotes the leaves.
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  Speaker 3: Lavigna woult Thou that surprise, sweet girl, ravished and wronged
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 3: as Philomila was forced in the ruthless, vast and gloomy woods.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 3: See see aye, such a place there is where we
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 3: did hunt? Oh had we never never hunted? There? Pattern
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  Speaker 3: by that the poet here describes by nature made for
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 3: murderers and for rapes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh why should nature build so foul a den unless
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 4: the gods delighted tragedies.
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  Speaker 3: Give sign, sweet girl, for here are none but friends?
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  Speaker 3: What Roman, Lord it was? Just do the deed or
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 3: slunk not set an eye as tarquin Ust that left
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  Speaker 3: the kemp to stden in Lucretie bed.
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  Speaker 4: Sit down, sweetness, brother, set down by me, Apollo, Palace,
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  Speaker 4: Jove or Mercury. Inspire me that I may this treason
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  Speaker 4: find my lord. Look here, Lucie Lavinia, This sandy plot
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 4: is plain guide. If thou canst this after.
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  Speaker 1: Me, he writes his name with his staff and guides
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: it with feet and mouth.
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  Speaker 4: I've written my name without the help of any hand
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  Speaker 4: at all. Cursed be that heart that forced us to
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  Speaker 4: the shift. Right, Thou good, nice, and here display at
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  Speaker 4: last what God will have discovered for revenge, Heaven, guide
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  Speaker 4: thy pen to print thy sorrow's plain, that we may
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  Speaker 4: know the traitors and the truth.
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  Speaker 1: She takes the staff in her mouth and guides it
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  Speaker 1: with her stumps and writes, Oh, do.
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  Speaker 4: You read, my lord, what she hath writ.
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  Speaker 3: Stop rum Cairn, Dmitrius.
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 4: What what the lustful sons of Tamarah, performers of this heinous,
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  Speaker 4: bloody deed.
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  Speaker 3: Map Dedominato pully turm Relinus, Oh diskill tam relintus v day.
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  Speaker 4: Oh calm thee gentle lord, although I know there is
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 4: enough written upon this earth to stir a beauty and
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 4: the mildest thoughts and arm the minds of infants, to exclaims,
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 4: my lord, kneel down with me, Ravinia, Neil and Neil,
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  Speaker 4: sweet boy, the Roman Hector's hope, and swear with me,
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  Speaker 4: as with the woeful fear and father of that chaste
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 4: dishonored Dame, Lord Junius Brutus, swear for Lucres's rape, that
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  Speaker 4: we will prosecute, by good advice mortal revenge upon these
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 4: traitorous goths and see their blood or die with this reproach.
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  Speaker 3: Tis sure enough, and you know how. But if you
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 3: hunt these bare whelps. Then beware the damn will wake.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: And if she wind you once she is with the
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 3: lion deeply still in league, and lulls him whilst she
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 3: playeth on her back. And when he sleeps, will she
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 3: do what she list? You are a young huntsman, Marcus,
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  Speaker 3: Let alone, and come, I will go get a leaf
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  Speaker 3: of brass, and with a gad of steel will write
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 3: these words and lay it by The angry northern wind
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 3: will blow these sands like sybils leaves abroad and wears
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 3: our lessen. Then, boy, what say you?
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  Speaker 6: I say, my lord, that if I were a man,
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 6: their mother's bed chamber should not be safe for these
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 6: space sponsmen to the yoke of Rome.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, that's my boy. Thy father hath full off for
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 4: his ungrateful country.
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  Speaker 6: Done the like, and uncle, so will I?
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  Speaker 3: And if I live, come go with me into mine armory, Lucius,
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  Speaker 3: I'll fit thee and withal my boy shall carry from
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  Speaker 3: me to the Empress's sons presence that I intend to
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 3: send them both. Come, come thou't do my message?
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  Speaker 4: Will that?
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  Speaker 5: Not? I?
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  Speaker 6: With my dagger in their bosoms? Grandsire, No boy, not?
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  Speaker 3: So I'll teach thee another course Lavinia. Come Marcus, look
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  Speaker 3: to my house, Lucius, and I'll go brave it at
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 3: the court. I marry, will we, sir, and we'll be
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 3: waited on.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: Exhude Titus Lavinia and young Lucius.
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  Speaker 4: Oh heavens, can you hear a good man grown and
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 4: not relate or not compassion him? Marcus attend him in
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 4: his ecstasy, that hath wore scars of sorrow with his
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 4: heart than Foemen's marks upon his battered shield. But yet
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 4: so just that he will not revenge, revenge e heavens
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 4: for old Andronicus.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: Exit Scene two Rome a room in the palace, enter
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: Aaron Chiron and Demetrius at one door, and at the
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: other door young Lucius, and another with a bundle of weapons,
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: and Verses writ upon.
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  Speaker 4: Them, Demetrius, here's the son of Lucius. He hath some
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 4: message to deliver us, aye.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: Some mad methods from his mad grandfather.
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  Speaker 6: My lords, with all the humbleness, I may I greet
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 6: your honors from Andronicus aside and pray to Roman. God's
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 6: ConfL found.
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  Speaker 1: You both gramacy, lovely Lucius. What's the news, young Lucius?
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  Speaker 6: Aside that you are both deciphered. That's the news for
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 6: villains marked with rape aloud, May it please you? My grandsire,
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 6: well advised, has sent by me the goodliest weapons of
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 6: his armory to gratify your honorable youth, the hope of Rome.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 6: For so he bid me say, and so I do,
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 6: And with his gifts present your lordships, that whenever you
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 6: have need, you may be armed and appointed well. And
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 6: so I leave you both aside, like bloody villains.
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  Speaker 1: Exuned, Young Lucius and attendant ore I scrawl and ridden roundabout.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: Let's see reads into the vite so little rescue pooris
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: non et moy inoculous neck arku.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 4: Oh tis a verse and horace. I know it well,
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 4: I read it in the grammar long ago.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 2: I just averse than Horace. Right, your habit aside, Now
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 2: what a thing it is to be an ass here
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: has no sound jest. The old man has found their
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 2: gut and sends them weapons wrapped about with lines that
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 2: wound beyond their feeling to that quick. But where are
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 2: witty empress well afoot she would applod and Ronica's conceit,
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 2: but let her rest in her unrest a while, And
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: now young lords was not a happy style at as
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 2: to Rome strangers and more than so captives to be
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 2: advanced to this height. It didn't be good before the
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 2: palace get to brave the tribune in his brother's hearing.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: But me more good to see so great a lord
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: beastly insinuate and send us gifts.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 2: Had he not reason, Lord Demityas, did you not use
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 2: his daughter very friendly?
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: Why would we had a thousand Roman games at such
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: a bay by turn to serve our.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 4: Lust, her charitable wish and full of love?
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 2: Here lacks but your mother for to say amen.
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 4: And that would she for twenty thousand more?
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: Come, let us go and pray to all the gods
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: for our beloved mother in her pains. Aaron aside, pray
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: to the devil's the gods have given us over Why
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: do the emperor's trumpets flourish?
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 4: Thus be like for joy? The Emperor hath a son.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: Soft who comes here enter nurse with a black more
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: child in her arms?
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 5: Good morrow, lords, Oh tell me did you see eron
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 5: the more.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: Well more or less? Or ne'er out at all? Yeah?
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 2: Aaron is? And what with Aaron now?
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 5: Oh gentle erin we are all undone? Now help or
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 5: whoa but hide thee evermore?
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: Why what a catawauling dost thou keep? What dost thou
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: wrap and fumble in thy arms?
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 5: Oh, that which I would hide from Heaven's eye our
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 5: Empress's shame and stately roams disgrace. She is delivered lords,
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 5: she is delivered toomb. I mean she's brought a bed where.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 2: God give her good rest. What hath he sent her
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 2: a devil? Why then she is a devil's damn, a
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 2: joyfullly shoe.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 5: A joyless, dismal, black and sorrowful shoe. Here is the babe,
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 5: as loathsome as a toad amongst the fair faced breeders
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 5: of our climb. The Emperor sends it thee thy stamp,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 5: thy seal, and bids thee christen it with thy dagger's point.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 2: Songe yahr is black, so beasaro sweet blouse, You are
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 2: a beauteous blossom.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 8: Shawl villain.
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 2: What hast thou done that which thou canst not undo?
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 4: Thou hast undone our mother.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 2: Villain, I have done thy mother.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: And therein hellish dog thou hast undone her woe to
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: her chance, and damned her loathed choice, a curse, the
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: offspring of so foul a fiend.
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 4: It shall not live, it shall not die.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 5: Eron it must the mother wills it, so.
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  Speaker 2: What must it? Nurse? Then let no man but I
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 2: do execution on my flesh and blood.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point. Nurse, give
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: it me. My sword shall soon dispatch it.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 2: Sooner this sword shall plow thy bowels up, taking the baby. Stay, mother, resveillance,
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 2: Will you kill your brother?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 2: About the burning tapers of the sky that shone so
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 2: brightly when this boy was got? He dies upon my
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 2: cimitar sharp point that touches this my firstborn son. And air,
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 2: I tell you, young Lamees, not only sell at us
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 2: with all his streightning bund of Typhoon's bruit our greater siitis,
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: nor the god of war shall seize this prey out
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 2: of his father's hands. What what yes, sanguine shallow hearted boys,
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 2: white lined walls, the airhouse painted signs, cold black is
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 2: better than another hue in that it's consta bet another
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 2: hue for all the what notion can never turn the
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 2: swan's black legs to white, although she laid them hourly
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: in the flood. Tell the Empress for me, I am
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 2: of age to keep myne own. Excuse it how she can.
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  Speaker 1: Will to betray thy noble mistress?
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 2: Does my mistress is my mistress? This myself, the biga
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 2: and the picture of my youth. This before all the world.
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 2: Do I prefer the smugger? All the world? Will I
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 2: keep safe of some of you shall smoke for it
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 2: in Rome?
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: By this our mother is forever shamed.
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 4: Role will despise her for this foul escape.
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 5: The Emperor, in his rage, will doom her death.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 4: I plush to think upon this.
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 2: Why that's the privilege of beauty, bass, thy treacherous hue
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 2: that we betray with blushing the close knacks and counselors
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 2: of thy heart. He has a young lad friend of Anadalia.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 2: Look how the black slave smiles upon the father, as
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 2: who should say, old lad, I am nine own. He
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 2: is your brother, Lord's sensibly fed of that self blood
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 2: that first gave life to you, and from your womb
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 2: where you imprisoned were he is unranchised and come to light. Nay,
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 2: he is your brother by the surer side of the
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 2: my seal be stamped in his face.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 5: Eron, what shall I say unto the Empress?
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: Advise the eron what is to be done, and we
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: will all subscribe to thy advice. Save thou the child,
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: so we may all be safe.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 2: Then sit me down and let us all consult. My son,
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 2: and I will have the wind of you. Keep that.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 2: Now talk at pleasure of your safety?
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: They sit? How many women saw this child of his?
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 2: I saw a brave lots when we join a league.
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 2: I am a lamb. But if you brave the moor,
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 2: the chafed, the bar, the mountain, lioness. The ocean swells,
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 2: not so as aaron storms. But saye acond, how many
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 2: saw the child?
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 5: Cornelia, the midwife, and myself, and no one else but
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 5: the delivered Empress.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 2: The Empress, the midwife, and yourself. Two may keep comesel
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 2: when the third's away. Go to the Empress. Tell her
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 2: this I said, He kills her weak weak, So cries up,
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 2: pig prepato that spit?
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: What meanest thou, aaron? Wherefore didst thou? This?
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 2: Oh lord sir, tis a dida policy? Should she live
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 2: to betray this gift of our a long tongued babbling gossip.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 2: No lords, no now be known to you my fall
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 2: intent not far one Mulattius lives My countryman his wife,
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 2: but yesternight was brought to bed. His child is like
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 2: to her there as you are. Go back with him
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: and give the mother gold, and tell them both the
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 2: circumstance of all and how by this their child should
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 2: be advanced and be received for the Emperor's heir, and
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 2: substitute it in a place of mind. To come this
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 2: tempest whirling in the court, and little Emperor dander him
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 2: for his own harcky lords, You see I have given.
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: Her physic indicating the nurse, and.
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 2: You must needs bestow her funeral the fields Anya, and
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 2: you are gallant grooms. This done, see that you take
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 2: no longer days, but send the midwife presently to me.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 2: The midwife and the nurse well made away, then let
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: the ladies tatter what they please.
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 4: Aaron I see that will not trust the air with
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 4: secrets for this care of Tamera.
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: Herself and hers are highly bound to thee Exhude Demetrius
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: and Cairn. Carrying the nurse's body now.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 2: To the Goths as swift as swallow flies. There to
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 2: dispose this treasure in my arms, and secretly to greet
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 2: the empress. Friends. Come on, you, thick lipped slave, I'll
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 2: bury you hands, for it is you that puts us
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 2: to our shifts, and make you feed on barriers and
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 2: don roots, and feed on carts and way, and suck
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 2: the goat and caban in a cave, and bring you
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 2: up to be a warrior and commander camp.
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: Exit Scene three Rome a public place. Enter Titus, old Marcus,
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: his son, Publius, young Lucius, and other gentlemen with bows,
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: and Titus bears the arrows with letters on the ends
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: of them.
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 3: Come Marcus, Come kinsman, this is the way. So boy,
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 3: let me see your archery. Look he draw home enough
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 3: and tis there straight terras astrea reliquit be you remembered, Marcus.
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 3: She's gone, she's fled, says Take you to your tools.
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 3: You cousins, shall go sound the ocean and cast your nets.
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 3: Happily you may catch her in the sea. Yet there's
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 3: as little justice as at land. No, Publius and Sempronius,
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 3: you must do it. Tis you must dig with matack
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 3: and with spade, and pierce the inmost center of the earth.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 3: Then when you come to Pluto's region, I pray you
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 3: deliver him this petition. Tell him it is for justice
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 3: and for aid, and that it comes from Oddronicus, shaken
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 3: with sorrows in ungrateful Rome. Ah, Rome, Well, well I
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 3: made the miserable, What time I threw the people's suffrages
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 3: on him? That thus does tyrannize o'er me go, Get
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 3: you gone and pray, be careful all and leave you
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 3: not a man of war and searched this wicked emperor
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 3: may have shipped her. Hence and kinsman, then we may
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 3: go pipe for justice.
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, Publius, it's not this heavy case to see, if
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 4: I know, uncle thus distracted.
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 5: Therefore, my lords, it highly us concerns by day and
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 5: night to attend him carefully and feed his humor kindly
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 5: as we may, till time begets some careful remedy.
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 4: Kinsman, his sorrows are past remedy. But join with the
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 4: Goths and with her vengeful war. Take Greek on Rome
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 4: for this ingratitude and vengeance on the traitor Saturnine.
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 3: Publiss, How now, how now, my masters, what have you
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 3: met with her?
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 5: No, my good lord, but Pluto sends you word. If
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 5: you will have revenge from hell, you shall mary for justice.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 5: She is so employed he thinks with jove in heaven
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 5: or somewhere else, so that perforce you must need stay
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 5: a time.
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 3: He dot me wrong to feed me with delays, I'll
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 3: die to the burning lake below and pull her out
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 3: of Acheron by their heels. Marcus, we are but shrubs,
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 3: no cedars. We no big boned men, framed of the
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 3: cyclop size but metal markus steal to the very back,
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 3: yet wrung with wrongs more than our backs can bear
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 3: and sit. There's no justice in earth nor hell. We
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 3: will solicit heaven and move the gods to send down justice,
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 3: for to wreak our wrongs. Come to this gear. You
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 3: are a good archer, Marcus.
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: He gives them the arrows.
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 3: Add jovem, that's for you here, add d'apollonum, ad martam,
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 3: that's for myself here boy, to Pallace, here to Mercury,
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 3: to Saturn Caius, not to Saturnine. You were as good
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 3: to shoot against the wind. To it, boy, Marcus, loose
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 3: when I bid, Oh my word have written to effect.
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 3: There's not a god left unsolicited.
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 4: Kinsman, shoot all your shafts into the court. We will
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 4: afflict the emperor in his pride.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 3: Now masters draw they shoot, Oh well, said Lucius. Good
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 3: boy in Virgo's lap.
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 4: Give it palace, my lord, I aim a mile beyond
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 4: the moon. Your letter is with Jupiter.
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 3: By this, ha ha ha, Publius, Publius, what hast thou done?
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 3: See see thou hast shot off one of Doris's horns?
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 4: This was the sport, my lord, when Pubia shot the
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 4: bull being galled, gave Airy such a knock that downfell
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 4: both the ram's horns in the court. And who should
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 4: find them but the empress Villain. She laughed and told
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 4: them more he should not choose, but give them to
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 4: his master for a present.
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 3: Why there it goes God give his lordship joy.
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: Enter the clown with a basket and two pigeons in it.
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 3: News, news from heaven Marcus, the post is come, Sarah.
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 3: What tidings have you? Any letters? Shall I have justice?
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 3: What says Jupiter?
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 13: How the chipet maker hey says that you've taken them
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 13: down again? When a man must not be anged em
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 13: next week?
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 3: But what says Jupiter? I ask thee.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 13: Alas, Sir, I know not jubiter, I never drank.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 3: With him, and all my life, why villain art not
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 3: thou the carrier?
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 13: Aye my pigeon, sir? Nothing else?
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 3: Why Didst Thou not come from heaven?
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 13: From heaven alas.
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 2: Sir, I never came berh God forbid ter be so
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 2: bold to press heaven my young days. Why I am
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 2: going my pigeons into our bunalblabes to take up a
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 2: matter of brawl betwixt my ongoing one of the Emperor's men.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 4: Why, Sir, that is as can be to serve for
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 4: your oration, and let him deliver the pigeons to the
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 4: Emperor from you?
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 3: Tell me? Can you deliver an oration to the Emperor
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 3: with a grace?
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 13: Na, truly, Sir, I can never say grace.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 3: All my life, Sarah, come hither, make no more ado,
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 3: but give your pigeons to the Emperor. By me, thou
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 3: shalt have justice at his hands. Hold hold meanwhile, here's
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 3: money for thy charges. Give me pen and ink, Sirrah,
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 3: can you, with a grace deliver up a supplication? Ah, Sir,
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 3: Then here is a supplication for you. And when you
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 3: come to him at the first approach, you must kneel,
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 3: then kiss his foot, then deliver up your pigeons, and
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 3: then look for your reward. I'll be at hand, sir,
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 3: see you do it bravely.
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 13: Oh I warrant you, so let me alone, sirrah.
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 3: Hast thou a knife? Come let me see it here,
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 3: Marcus folded in the oration, For thou hast made it
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 3: like a humble suppliant. And when thou hast given it
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 3: to the Emperor, knock at my door and tell.
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 2: Me what he says. God be with you, Sir, I
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 2: will exit.
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 3: Come Marcus, let us go, Publius, follow me.
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: Exeunt scene for Rome before the palace, enter Emperor Saturninos,
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: an Empress Tamara, and her two sons, Chiron and Demetrius,
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: with attendants. The Emperor brings the errors in his hand
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: that Titus shot at him. Why Lord, what wrongs are these?
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: Was ever seen an emperor in Rome thus overborne, troubled,
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: confronted thus and for the extent of legal justice used
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: in such contempt? My lords, you know as know the
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: mightiful gods. However, these disturbers of our peace buzz in
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: the people's ears. They are not hath passed, but even
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: with law against the wilful sons of old Andronicus. And
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: what an if his sorrows have so overwhelmed his wits,
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: shall we be thus afflicted in his reeks, his fits
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: his frenzy and his bitterness. And now he writes to
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: Heaven for his redress, see his to Juve, and this
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: to Mercury, this to Apollo, this to the god of war,
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: sweet scrolls to fly about the streets of Rome. What's
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: this but libeling against the Senate, emblazoning our injustice everywhere
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: of goodly humor? Is it not my lord's as who
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: would say in Rome no justice were? But if I live,
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: his feigned ecstasy shall be no shelter to these outrages.
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: But he and his shall know that justice lives in
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: saturn Ninus's health, whom if she sleep, he'll so awake
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: as he in fury shall cut off the proudest conspirator
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: that lives.
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 6: My gracious Lord, my lovely Saturnine, lord of my life,
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 6: commander of my thoughts. Comb thee and bear the faults
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 6: of titus age, the effects of sorrow for his valiant sons,
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 6: whose loss hath pierced him deep and scart his heart.
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 6: And rather comfort his distrusted flight than prosecute the meanest
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 6: or the best for these contempts aside, Why does it
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 6: shall become high witted Tamorrah to glose withal, but Titus,
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 6: I have touched thee to the quick thy life blood out.
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 6: If aaron now be wise, then all is safe. The
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 6: anchor in the port enter clown, How now would fellow
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 6: would still speak with us?
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 13: Forsooth, and your mistresship be Imperial.
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 6: Empress, I am, but yonder sits the Emperor.
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 13: Dizzy God, and Saint Stephen give you good inn. I
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 13: have brought you a letter and a couple of visions.
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: Dear Saturninus reads the letter. Go take him away and
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: hang him presently?
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 13: How much money mosse.
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 6: I have come, Sarah, you must be hanged.
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 13: Hanged, my lady, than I have brought him a neck
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 13: to a fair.
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: End exit guarded dispankful and intolerable wrongs. Shall I endure
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: this monstrous villainy? I know from Prince this same device proceeds.
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: May this be born as if his traitorous sons, that,
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: by law for murder of our brother have by my
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: means been butter'd wrongfully. Go rag the villain hither by
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: the hair, nor age nor honor shall shape privilege for
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: this proud mock. I'll be thy slaughter man, sly frantic
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: wretch that harpe us to make me great in hope
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: thyself should govern Rome and me enter Emilius. What news
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: with thee Emilius arm.
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 3: My lord Rome never had more cause the Goths have
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 3: gather'd head than with the power of high resolved men
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 3: bent to the spoil. They hither march Amain under conduct
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 3: of Lucius son to old Andronicus, who threats, in course
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 3: of this revenge, to do as much as ever Coriolanus did, is.
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: War like cluss general of the golfs. These tidings nip
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: me and I hang the head as flowers with frost
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: or grass beat down with storms. I now begins our
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: sorrows to approach tis he the common people love so
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: much myself hath often overheard them say, when I have
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: walked like a private man, that lucius banishment was wrongfully,
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: and they have wished that Lucius were their emperor.
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 6: Why should you fear?
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: Is not your city strong, aye, but the citizen's favor Lucius,
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: and will revolt from me to succor him.
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 6: King, be thy thoughts imperious, like thy name, is the
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 6: sun dimmed that nuts to fly in it? The eagle
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 6: suffers little birds to sing, and is not careful what
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 6: they mean thereby knowing that with the shadow of his
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 6: wings he can fasure stinted their melody. Even so, mayest
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 6: thou the giddy men of Rome, then sheera spirit. For
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 6: know thou, Emperor, I will enchant the old Andronicus with
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 6: words more sweet and yet more dangerous than baits to
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 6: fish or honey stalks to sheep, when as the one
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 6: is wounded with the bait, the other rot it with
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 6: delicious feed.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: But he will not entreat his son for us.
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 6: If Tamorah entreat him, then he will, for I can
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 6: smooth and fill his aged ears with golden promises that
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 6: were his heart almost impregnable his old ears death. Yet
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 6: should both ear and heart obey my tongue, two amlias,
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 6: go thou before be our ambassador, Say that the Emperor
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 6: requests a party of war like Lucius, and appoint the
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 6: meeting even at his father's house. The old Andronicus.
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: Emilius, do this message honorably, And if he stand on
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: hostage for his safety, bid him demand what pledge will
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: please him best.
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 3: Your bidding shall I do effectually?
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 10: Exit?
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 6: Now will I to that old Andronicus and temper him
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 6: with all the art I have to pluck proud Lucius
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 6: from the warlike Goths. And now, sweet Emperor, be blithe
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 6: again and bury all thy fear in my devices.
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: Then go successantly and plead to him.
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 10: Exitun and of Act four, Act five of.
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: The Tragedy of Andronicus by William Shakespeare. This is a
• 2:11:03
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• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: Act five, Scene one plains near Rome. Enter Lucius with
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: an army of Goths with drums and soldiers.
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 5: Approve it, warriors, and my faithful friends, I have received
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 5: letters from Great Rome, which signifies what hate they bear
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 5: their emperor, and how desirous of our sight they are. Therefore,
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 5: great Lords, be as your title's witness, imperious and impatient
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 5: of your wrongs. And wherein Rome hath done you any scathe,
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 5: Let him make trouble satisfaction.
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: Brave slip sprung from the great Andronicus, whose name was
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: once our terror, now our comfort, whose high exploits and
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: honorable deeds, ingrateful Rome requites with thou contempt, be bold
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: in us.
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 4: We'll follow where.
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: Thou leadest like stinging bees in the hottest summer's day,
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 1: led by their master to the flowered fields and be
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: avenged on cursed Tamara.
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 4: And he says, so.
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 13: Say we all with him.
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 5: I humbly thank him, and I thank you all. But
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 5: who comes here led by a lusty goth.
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: Enter, a goth leading of aaron with his child in.
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 4: His arms, renowned Lucius from our troops. I strayed to
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 4: gaze upon a runeous monastery. And as I earnestly did
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 4: fix mine eye upon the wasted building, suddenly I heard
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 4: a child cry underneath a wall. I made unto the noise,
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 4: when soon I heard the frying babe controlled with this discourse, peace,
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 4: toney slave, half me and half thy game. Did not
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 4: thy huban ray who's bread thou art had nature lent thee?
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 4: But thy mother's look villain, Thou mightst have been an emperor.
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 4: But where the bull and cow are both milk white,
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 4: they never to beget a cold black calf. Peacefuelin peace.
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 4: Even thus he raps the babe, for I must bear
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 4: thee to trusty goth Ooh, when he knows thou art
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 4: the empress, Babe will hold thee dearly, for thy mother's sake.
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 4: With this my weapon drawn, I rushed upon him, surprised
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 4: him suddenly, and brought him hither to use as you
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 4: think needful of the.
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 5: Man, oh worthy goth. This is the incarnate devil that
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 5: robbed Andronicus of his good hand. This is the pearl
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 5: that pleased your Empress's eye, and here's the base fruit
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 5: of her burning lust, Say, wall eyed slave, whither wouldst
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 5: thou convey this growing image of thy fiendlike face? Why
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 5: dost not speak? What deaf?
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 4: Not a word?
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 5: A halter's soldiers Hang him on this tree, and by
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 5: his side his fruit of bastardy.
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 2: Not not the boy, He's a royal blood too, like.
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 5: The sire, for ever being good. First hang the child
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 5: that he may see it sprawl a sight to vex
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 5: the father's soul withal get me a ladder.
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: A ladder is brought, which aaron is made to ascend.
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 2: Lushas save the child, and bear it from me to
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 2: the Empress. If thou do this, I'll show de wonderest
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 2: things that highimadvantage thetoya. If thou wert not befall what
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 2: may befall, I'll speak no more but vengeance rot you.
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 5: All say on, and if it please me which thou speakest,
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 5: thy child shall live, and I will see it nourished.
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 2: Ha ha. And if at place thee why sure delocius
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 2: to have vexed thy soldier, hear what I shall speak?
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 2: Where I my stock of murders, rapes and massacres, acts
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 2: have black knight, abominable deeds, compleats of mischief, trees and
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 2: villainies ruthful, do yea yet betty are sleep performed? And
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 2: they shall all be buried in my death. Unless thou
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 2: swear to me my child shall live.
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 5: Tell on thy mind, I say, thy child shall.
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 2: Live, swear that he shall? And then I well begun?
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 5: Who should I swear? By thou believe it? No God?
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 5: That granted, how canst thou believe in oath?
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 2: What if I do not? As indeed I do not yet,
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 2: for I know thou art religious and hast a being
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 2: within the God conscience, with twenty popish tricks and ceremonies
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 2: which I have seen the careful to observe. Therefore I
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 2: urge thy oath, for that I know an idiot holds
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 2: his bubble for our God and keeps the oath which
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 2: by that God. He swears to that I'll urge him.
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 2: Therefore thou shut vow by that same God. What God's
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 2: WoT be that thou adorrest and hast in reverence to
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 2: save my boy, to nourish and bring him up, or
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 2: else I will discover not to THEE.
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 5: Even by my God, I swear to THEE, I will.
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 2: First know thou I begot him on the.
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 5: Empress o most instiot and luxurious woman pat lorshas.
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 2: This was but a deed of charity to that which
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 2: thou shut hear of me. Anne. Twas had two sons
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 2: at Mada dramasianas they cut thy sister's tongue and ravished her,
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 2: and cut her hands and trimmed her as thou sawest.
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 5: O detestable villain, callest thou that trimming why she.
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 2: Was washed and cut and trimmed. And twas trained spot
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 2: for them which had the doing.
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 5: Of it, Oh, barbarous beastly villains like thyself.
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 2: Indeed I was their tutor to instruct them that cutting spirit,
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 2: had they from their mother Ashore a cowd has ever
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 2: won this set that bloody mind. I think they land
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 2: of me as true a dog as ever fought at head.
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 2: Let my deeds be witness of my wife. I trained
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 2: thy brethren to that guileful hall where the dead corpse
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 2: of Bassiana sleigh. I wrote the letter that thy father
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 2: found and hid the gold. Within that letter mentioned confederate
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 2: with the queen and her two sons, and what not
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 2: done that thou hast caused? True? Wherein I had no
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 2: stroke of mischief? And I played the chittah for thy
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 2: father's hand, And when I had it, drew myself apart
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 2: and almost broke my heart with extreme laughter. I pried
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 2: me through the crevice of a wall, when for his
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 2: hand he had his two sons heads, beheld his tears,
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 2: and laughed so heartily that both mine eyes were raining
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 2: like to his. And I told the Empress of this sport.
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 2: She sounded almost at my pleasing tale, and for my
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 2: tidings gave me twenty kissers.
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 6: What canst thou say all this and never.
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 2: Blush I like a black dog, as they're sayings.
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 5: Art thou not sorry for these heinous.
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 2: Deeds that I had not done a thousand more? Even
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 2: now I cast the day, And yet I think few
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 2: come within the compass of my cass wherein I did
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 2: not some notorious ill as kill a man, or as
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 2: devise his death, ravish have made or plot the way
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 2: to do it. I choose some innocent, and forswear myself
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 2: such deadly enmity between door friends, make poor men's cat
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 2: or break their necks, set fire on barns and hay
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 2: stocks in the night, and bideonas quenched them with their
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 2: tears oft Have I dicked up dead men from their
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 2: graves and set them upright at their dear friend's door,
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 2: even when tho horrows almost was forgot, And on their
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 2: skins as on the bark of trees, half with my
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 2: knife carved in Roman lets. Let not your sorrow die
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 2: though I am dead. But I have done a thousand
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 2: dreadful things as willingly as one would get a fly,
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 2: And nothing greets me heartily. Indeed, but that I cannot
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 2: do ten thousand more.
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 5: Bring down the devil, for he must not die so
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 5: sweet a death as hanging presently.
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 2: If that beaus, would I were a devil to live
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 2: and burn an everlasting fire so I might have your
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 2: company in hell, but to torment you with my bitter tongue.
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 5: Sirs, stop his mouth and let him speak no more,
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 5: Enter Emilius, My.
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 2: Lord, there is a messenger from Rome desires to be
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 2: admitted to your presence.
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 5: Let him come near. Welcome, Emilius. What's the news from Rome?
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 3: Lord Lucius, and you, princess of the Goths. The Roman
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 3: emperor greets you all by me, and for he understands
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 3: you are in arms. He craves a parley at your
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 3: father's house, willing you to demand your hostages, and they
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 3: shall be immediately delivered.
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 5: What's our general, Emilius. Let the Emperor give his pledges
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 5: unto my father and my uncle Marcus, and we will
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 5: come march away.
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: Exitont seeing two Rome before Tartus's house, Enter Tamara and
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 1: her two sons disguised.
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 6: Thus in this strange and said habiliment, I will encounter
• 2:21:45
  Speaker 6: with Andronicus and say I am revenge, sent from below
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 6: to join with him and write his heenus wrongs. Knock
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 6: at his study, where they say he keeps to ruminate
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 6: strange plots of dire revenge. Tell him revenge is come
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 6: to join with him and work confusion on his enemies.
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: They knock. Titus above, opens his study door.
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 3: Ooh, doth molest my contemplation? Is it your trick to
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 3: make me open the door, that so my sad decrees
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 3: may fly away, and all my study be to no effect.
• 2:22:26
  Speaker 3: You are deceived for what I mean to do. See
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 3: here in bloody lines I have set down, and what
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 3: is written shall be executed.
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 6: Titus, I am come to talk with THEE.
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 2: No, not a word.
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 3: How can I grace my talk? Wanting a hand to
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 3: give it action? Thou hast the odds of me. Therefore
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 3: no more.
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 6: If thou didst know me, thou wouldst talk with me.
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 3: I am not mad. I know THEE well enough. Witness
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 3: this ritched stump, Witness these crimson lines. Witness these trenches
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 3: made by grief and care. Witness the tiring day and
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 3: heavy night. Witness all sorrow that I know THEE well.
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 3: For our proud Emperor's mighty Tamora. Is not thy coming
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 3: for my other hand.
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 6: No, thou said, man, I am not Tamorah. She is
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 6: thy enemy, and I thy friend. I am revenge sent
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 6: from the infernal kingdom to ease the gnawing vulture of
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 6: thy mind by working week for vengeance on thy foes.
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 6: Come down and welcome me to this world's light. Confer
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 6: with me of murder and of death. There's not a
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 6: hollow cave or lurking place, no vast obscurity or misty
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 6: veil where bloody murder or detested race can couch for fear.
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 6: But I will find them out and in their ears
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 6: tell them my dreadful name, Revenge, which makes the foul
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 6: offender quake.
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 3: Art thou revenge, And art thou said to me to
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 3: be a torment to my enemies.
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 6: I am therefore come down and welcome me.
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 3: Do me some service here. I come to thee lo
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 3: by the side where rape and murder stands. Now give
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 3: me some assurance that thou art revenge, stab them or
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 3: tear them on thy chariot wheel, and then I'll come
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 3: and be thy wagoner and whirl along with thee about
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 3: the globe, provide the two proper Palfrey's black as jet
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 3: to hail thy vengeful wagons, swift away and find out
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 3: murderers in their guilty caves. And when thy car is
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 3: loading with their heads, I will dismount and buy the
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 3: wagon wheel. Trot like a servile footman all day long,
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 3: even from hyperions rising in the east, until he's very
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 3: downfall in the sea, and day by day I'll do
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 3: this heavy task. So thou destroy rapine and murder. There
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 3: these are my.
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 6: Ministers, and come with me?
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 3: Are they ministers? What are they called?
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 6: Rapine and murder? Therefore called so because they take vengeance
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 6: of such kind of men?
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 3: Good Lord, how like the Empress's sons they are, and
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 3: you the Empress. But we worldly men have miserable, mad,
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 3: mistaking eyes. Oh sweet revenge. Now do I come to thee,
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 3: And if one arms embracement, will content THEE. I will
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 3: embrace THEE in it.
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: By and by he exits above.
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 6: Disclosing with him fits his lunacy. Who are there I
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 6: forge to feed his brainsick humors? Do you uphold and
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 6: maintain in your speeches? For now he firmly takes me
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 6: for revenge, and be incredulous in this mad thought. I'll
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 6: make him send for Lucius, his son, and whilst I
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 6: at a banquet, hold him. Sure I'll find some cunning
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 6: practice out of hand to scatter and disperse the giddy goths,
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 6: or at least make them his enemies. See here he comes,
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 6: and I must fly my theme.
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 3: Enter Titus, How long have I been forlorn and all
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 3: for THEE who welcome, dread fury to my woeful house.
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 3: Raping a murder? You are welcome too, how likely imprison
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 3: her sons? You are well? Are you fitted? Had you
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 3: but a more? Could not all hell afford you such
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 3: a devil? For well, I WoT the Empress never wags,
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 3: But in her company there is a more? And would
• 2:27:13
  Speaker 3: you represent our queen all right? If were convenient you
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 3: had such a devil. But welcome as you are.
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 2: What shall we do?
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 6: What wouldst thou have us do? Andronachus, show me a murderer,
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 6: I'll deal with him.
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 4: Show me a villain that hath done a rape, and
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 4: I am said to be revenged on him.
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 6: Show me a thousand that hath done thee wrong, and
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 6: I will be revenged on them. All.
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 3: Look around about the wicked streets of Rome. And when
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 3: thou find'st a man that's like thyself, good murder stab him.
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 3: He's a murderer, Go thou with him. And when it
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 3: is thy hap to find another that's like to thee repin,
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 3: stab him he is a rabbisher. Go thou with them.
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 3: And in the empress court there is a queen attended
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 3: by a more. Well shalt thou know her by thine
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 3: own proportion, For up and down she doth resemble THEE.
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 3: I pray THEE do on them some violent death. They
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 3: have been violent to me and mine.
• 2:28:23
  Speaker 6: Well, hast thou lessened us?
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 5: This shall we do?
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 6: But would it please THEE good Andronicus to send for Lucius,
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 6: thy thrice valiant son, who leads towards Rome a band
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 6: of war like goths, And bid him come and banquet
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 6: at thy house when he is here, even at thy
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 6: solemn feast, I will bring in the Empress and her sons,
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 6: the Emperor himself, and all thy foes. And at thy
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 6: mercy shall they stoop and kneel. And on them shalt
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 6: thou ease thy angry heart? What says Andronicus to this.
• 2:29:05
  Speaker 3: Device, Marcus, my brother Tis said Titus calls, enter, Marcus, Go,
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 3: gentle Marcus, to thy nephew Lucius, Thou shalt inquire him
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 3: out among the goths. Bid him repair to me, and
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 3: bring with him some of the chiefest princes of the Goths.
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 3: Bid him in camp his soldiers where they are, Tell
• 2:29:29
  Speaker 3: him the Emperor and the Empress to feast at my house,
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 3: and he shall feast with them. This do thou fall
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 3: my love, and so let him as he regards his
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 3: aged father's life.
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 4: This what I do, and soon return again.
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: Exit.
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 6: Now will I hands about that business and take my
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 6: ministers along with me?
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 3: Nay, nay, let rape and murders stay with me, or
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 3: else I'll call my brother back again and cleave to
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 3: no revenge.
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: But Lucius tamoraw aside to them, what say you boys?
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 6: Will you abide with him whilst I go? Tell my
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 6: lord the Emperor how I have governed our determined chest.
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 6: Yield to his humor, smooth and speaking fair, and tarry
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 6: with him till I come again.
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 1: Titus aside, I knew them all, though they supposed me mad,
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: and will all reach them in their own devices.
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 3: A pair of cursed hell hounds.
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: And their damn madam depard pleasure, leave us.
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 6: Here, farewell, Andronicus revenge now goes to lay a complot
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 6: to betray thy foes.
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 3: I know thou dost and sweet revenge. Farewell?
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 1: Exit, tamaraw tell.
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 4: Us, old man, how shall we be employed?
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 3: Tut I have work enough for you to do. Publius,
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 3: come hither, Caius and Valentine enter.
• 2:31:02
  Speaker 1: Publius and others what is your will?
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 4: Know you?
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 5: These two the Empress's sons. I take them chirn Demetrius.
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 3: Five publice five thou art too much deceived. This one
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 3: is murder and Rapisciai's name, And therefore bind them. Gentle Puppius,
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 3: Caius and Valentine lay hangs on them oft. Have you
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 3: heard me wish for such an hour? And now I
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 3: find it? Therefore bind them sure, and stop their mouths
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 3: if they begin to cry.
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 1: Exit Titus hillans forbear.
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 4: We are the empress sons, and.
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 5: Therefore do what we are commanded. Stop, close their mouths,
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 5: let them not speak a word? Is he sure bound?
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 5: Look that you bind them fast?
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: Enter Titus Andronicus with a knife, and Lavinia with a
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 1: basin cam camravignan.
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 3: Look thy foes are bound, says stop their mouths. Let
• 2:32:04
  Speaker 3: them not speak to me, but let them hear what
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 3: fearful words I utter, Oh villains Chiron and Demetrius. Here
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 3: stands the spring whom you have stained with mud this
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 3: goodly summer, with your winter mixed. You killed her husband,
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 3: and for that vile fault, two of her brothers were
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 3: condemned to death. My hand cut off and made a
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 3: merry jest, both her sweet hands her tongue, and that
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 3: more dear than hands or tongue, her spotless chastity in
• 2:32:46
  Speaker 3: human traitors, you constrained and forced. What would you say
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 3: if I should let you speak, villains for shame? You
• 2:32:56
  Speaker 3: could not beg for grace, heart wretches, How I mean
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  Speaker 3: to martyr you? This one hand yet is left to
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  Speaker 3: cut your throats, whilst that levigna tween her stumps doth
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  Speaker 3: hold the basin that receives your guilty blood. You know
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  Speaker 3: your mother means the feast with me, and calls herself
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  Speaker 3: revenge and thinks me mad hark villains, I will grind
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  Speaker 3: your bones to dust, and with your blood and it
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  Speaker 3: i'll make a paste, and of the paste a coffin.
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  Speaker 3: I will rear and make two pasties of your shameful heads,
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  Speaker 3: and bid that strumpet you're unhallowed at damn like to
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  Speaker 3: the earth, swallow her own increase. This is the feast
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  Speaker 3: that I have bid her too, and this the banquet
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  Speaker 3: she shall suffight on. For worse than Philamel you used
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  Speaker 3: my daughter, and worse than pro Seine, I will be reveng'd.
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  Speaker 3: And now prepare your throat lavigna. Come receive the blood.
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  Speaker 1: He cuts their throats.
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  Speaker 3: And when they are dead, let me go grind their
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  Speaker 3: bones to powder small, and with this hateful liquor template,
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  Speaker 3: and in that paste let their vile heads be baked. Come, Come,
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  Speaker 3: be everyone of ficious to make this banquet, which I
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  Speaker 3: wish may prove more stern and bloody than the centaur's feast.
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  Speaker 3: So now bring them in, for I'll play the cook,
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  Speaker 3: and see them ready against their mother.
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  Speaker 1: Comes Exeunt, carrying the dead bodies. Scene three, Rome, a
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  Speaker 1: pavilion in Titus's gardens, with tables et cetera. Enter Lucius
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  Speaker 1: Marcus and the Goths with aaron. Prisoner, Uncle Marcus.
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  Speaker 5: Since tis my father's mind that I repair to Rome.
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  Speaker 5: I am content, and our's with thine.
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  Speaker 1: Before what fortune will.
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  Speaker 5: Good uncle take you? In this barberous more, this ravenous tiger,
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  Speaker 5: this accursed devil. Let him receive no sustenance. Fetter him
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  Speaker 5: till he be brought unto the Empress's face for testimony
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  Speaker 5: of her foul proceedings. And see the ambush of our friends.
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  Speaker 5: Be strong. I fear the Emperor means no good to us.
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  Speaker 2: Some devil whisper castes at my ear, and prompt me
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  Speaker 2: that my tongue may at a fourth, that ven I
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  Speaker 2: must malice my swelling.
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  Speaker 5: At away an human dog, unhallowed slave. Sirs, help our uncle.
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  Speaker 1: To convey him in sound trumpets.
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  Speaker 5: The trumpets show the emperor is at hand.
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  Speaker 1: Exude Goth with Aaron, enter Emperor Saturninus, an Empress Tamara,
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  Speaker 1: with Amilius, Tribunes and others. What hath the firmament more
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  Speaker 1: son than one?
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  Speaker 5: What boots it thee to call thyself a sun?
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  Speaker 4: Rome's Emperor and nephew? Break the pile. These quarrels must
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  Speaker 4: be quietly debated. The feast is ready, which the careful
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 4: Titus hath ordained to an honorable end. For peace, for love,
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  Speaker 4: for league, and good to Rome. Please you therefore draw
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  Speaker 4: nigh and take your places.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus, we will trumpets sounding enter Titus like a cook,
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  Speaker 1: placing the dishes with young Lucius and others, and Lavinia
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  Speaker 1: with a veil over her face.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome, my lord, Welcome dread queen, Welcome, ye you are
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  Speaker 3: like goths. Welcome Lucius, and welcome all. Although the cheer
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  Speaker 3: be poor, twill fill your stomachs. Please you eat of it.
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  Speaker 1: Why art thou thus attired, Andronicus.
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  Speaker 3: Because I would be sure to have all well, to
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  Speaker 3: entitate your Highness and your Empress.
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  Speaker 6: We are beholden to you, good Andronicus.
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  Speaker 3: And if your Highness knew my heart, you were my lord.
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  Speaker 3: The Emperor resolved me, this was it well done of
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  Speaker 3: rash Virginius to slay his daughter with his own right hand,
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  Speaker 3: because she was enforced, stained and deflowered. It was Andronicus,
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  Speaker 3: your reason, mighty Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Because the girl should not survive her shame, and by
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 1: her presence still renew his sorrows.
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  Speaker 3: A reason mighty strong and effectual, a pattern, precedent and
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  Speaker 3: lively warrant for me, most wretched to perform the like.
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  Speaker 3: Die Die, Lavina, and thy shame with thee, and with
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 3: thy shame, thy father's sorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Die he kills Lavinia? What hast thou done?
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  Speaker 3: Unlateral and a kind killed her? For whom my tears
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 3: have made me blind? I am as woeful as Virginius was,
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  Speaker 3: and have a thousand times more cause than he to
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  Speaker 3: do this outrage? And it now is done?
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  Speaker 1: What was she ruvished? Tell? Who did the deed?
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  Speaker 4: World?
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  Speaker 3: Please you? Eat? Would please your highness?
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  Speaker 2: Feed?
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  Speaker 14: Why has star slain than only daughter does who not
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  Speaker 14: I twas Chiren and Demetrius, they ravished her and cut
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 14: away her tongue, And they twas they that did her
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  Speaker 14: all this wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Go fetch them hither to us presently.
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  Speaker 3: Why they are here, both baked in that pie, whereof
• 2:38:47
  Speaker 3: their mother daintily hath fed, eating the flesh that she
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 3: herself had. Bread tis true, tis true? Witness my knife
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 3: sharp point abs.
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  Speaker 1: The Empress die frantic wretch for this accursed deed.
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  Speaker 5: He kills Titus, Can the son's eye behold his father bleed?
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  Speaker 1: He kills Saturninus.
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  Speaker 5: There's meed for mead death, for a deadly deed.
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  Speaker 1: A great tumult. Lucius, Marcus and others go aloft to
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  Speaker 1: the upper stage.
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  Speaker 4: You, sad faced men, people and sons of Rome by uproar,
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  Speaker 4: severed as a flight of fowls, scattered by winds and
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 4: heights and pestuous gusts. Oh, let me teach you how
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 4: to knit again the scattered corn into one mutual sheaf,
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  Speaker 4: these broken limbs again into one body, lest Rome herself
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 4: be bane unto herself, and she who mighty kingdoms curtseyed
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  Speaker 4: to like a foreign and desperate castaway do shameful execution
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 4: on herself. But if my frosty signs and chaps of age,
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 4: grave witnesses of true experience, cannot induce you to attend
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 4: my words, Speak Rome's dear friend to Lucius as erst
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  Speaker 4: our ancestor, when with his solemn tongue he did discourse
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 4: to love sick Diido's sad attending ear the story of
• 2:40:23
  Speaker 4: that baleful burning knight, when subtle Greeks surpassed King Priam's Troy.
• 2:40:30
  Speaker 4: Tell us what Sidon hath bewitch'd our ears, or who
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 4: hath brought the fatal engine in that gives our Troy,
• 2:40:38
  Speaker 4: our Rome the civil wound. My heart is not compact
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 4: or flint or steel, Nor can I utter all our
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 4: bitter grief. But floods of tears will drown my oratory
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 4: and break my utterance, even in the time when it
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 4: should move you to attend me most and force you
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 4: to commiseration. Here's Rome's young captain. Let him tell the
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 4: tale while I stand by and weep to hear him speak.
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  Speaker 5: Then, noble auditory, be it known to you that Chirn
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 5: and the damned Demetrius were they that murdered our emperor's brother,
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 5: and they it were that ravished our sister. For there
• 2:41:28
  Speaker 5: fell faults, our brothers were beheaded, our father's tears, despised
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 5: and basely cousined of that true hand that fought Rome's
• 2:41:38
  Speaker 5: quarrel out and sent her enemies unto the grave. Lastly, myself,
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 5: unkindly banished the gates shut on me, and turned weeping
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 5: out to beg relief among Rome's enemies, who drowned their
• 2:41:55
  Speaker 5: enemity in my true tears, and opt their arms to
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 5: race me. As a friend, I am the turned forth.
• 2:42:04
  Speaker 5: Be it known to you that have preserved her welfare
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 5: in my blood, and from her bosom took the enemy's point,
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 5: sheathing the steel in my adventurous body. Alas you know,
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 5: I am no vaunter. I my scars can witness dumb,
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  Speaker 5: although they are that my report is just and full
• 2:42:26
  Speaker 5: of truth. But soft methinks I do digress too much,
• 2:42:32
  Speaker 5: citing my worthless praise. Oh pardon me, for when no
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 5: friends are by men praise themselves.
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  Speaker 4: Now is my turn to speak. Behold, the child of
• 2:42:46
  Speaker 4: this was Tavara delivered the issue of an irreligious more
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 4: shef arcitect and plotter of these woes. The villain is
• 2:42:54
  Speaker 4: alive in titus house, and as he is to witness
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 4: this is true. Judge what cause had Titus to revenge
• 2:43:02
  Speaker 4: these wrongs? Unspeakable past patience, or more than any living
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 4: man could bear? Now have you heard the truth? What
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 4: say you Romans? Have we done? Art? Amiss? Show us
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  Speaker 4: wherein and from the place where you behold us bleeding
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 4: the poor remainder of Andronic. I will hand in hand
• 2:43:26
  Speaker 4: all headlong, hurl ourselves and on the ragged stones, beat
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 4: forth our souls and become mutual closer of our house.
• 2:43:36
  Speaker 4: Speak Romans, speak, and if you say, we shall lo
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 4: hand in hand, Lucius and I will fall.
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  Speaker 3: Come Come thou, reverend men of Rome, and bring our
• 2:43:50
  Speaker 3: emperor gently in thy hand. Lucius, sa, our Emperor, full well,
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  Speaker 3: I know the common voice to cry. It shall be
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 3: show Lucius, all hail, Rose royal Emperor.
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  Speaker 4: Go go into old titus sorrowful house, and hither hail
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 4: that's misbelieving more to be adjudged some direful slaughtering death
• 2:44:14
  Speaker 4: as punishment for his most wicked life.
• 2:44:17
  Speaker 1: Exunt attendants Lucius and Marcus come down from upper stage.
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  Speaker 6: Lucius, all hail Rose, gracious sumner, Thanks, gentle Romans.
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  Speaker 5: May I govern so to heal Rome's harms and wipe
• 2:44:33
  Speaker 5: away her woe. But gentle people, give me aim a while,
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  Speaker 5: for nature puts me to a heavy task. Stand all
• 2:44:43
  Speaker 5: aloof But uncle, draw you near to shed obsequious tears
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  Speaker 5: upon this trunk, he kisses, Titus, Oh, take this warm
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 5: kiss on thy pale, cold lips, These sorrowful drops upon
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  Speaker 5: thy blood stained face, the last true duties of thy noble.
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  Speaker 4: Son, Tyr for tear and loving kiss, for kiss thy
• 2:45:08
  Speaker 4: brother Marcus tenders on thy lips. Oh, with a sub
• 2:45:14
  Speaker 4: of these that I should pay countless and infinite, Yet
• 2:45:18
  Speaker 4: would I pay them?
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  Speaker 5: Come hither, boy, Come, come and learn of us to
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 5: melt and showers. Thy grandsire loved thee well. Many a
• 2:45:29
  Speaker 5: time he danced thee on his knee, sung thee asleep
• 2:45:33
  Speaker 5: his loving breast thy pillow. Many a story hath he
• 2:45:37
  Speaker 5: told to thee, and bid thee bear his pretty tales
• 2:45:41
  Speaker 5: in mind, and talk of them when he was dead
• 2:45:44
  Speaker 5: and gone.
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  Speaker 4: How many thousand times hath these poor lips, where they
• 2:45:50
  Speaker 4: were living, warmed themselves on thine. Oh, now, sweet boy,
• 2:45:56
  Speaker 4: give them their latest kiss, bid him fair well, commit
• 2:46:01
  Speaker 4: him to the grave. Do them that kindness, and take
• 2:46:05
  Speaker 4: leave of them.
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  Speaker 6: Oh grandsire, grandsire, even with all my heart, would I
• 2:46:11
  Speaker 6: were dead so you did live again? Oh Lord, I
• 2:46:16
  Speaker 6: cannot speak to him, for weeping My tears will choke me.
• 2:46:20
  Speaker 6: If I oap my mouth.
• 2:46:23
  Speaker 1: Re enter attendants with.
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  Speaker 3: Aaron, you said, Deronica, have done with woes. Give sentence
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 3: on the execrable rich that hath been breeder of these
• 2:46:37
  Speaker 3: dire events.
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  Speaker 5: Set him breast deep in earth and famish him there.
• 2:46:43
  Speaker 5: Let him stand and rave and cry for food. If
• 2:46:47
  Speaker 5: anyone relieves or pities him for the offense, he dies.
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 5: This is our doom. Some stay to see him fastened
• 2:46:57
  Speaker 5: in the earth.
• 2:46:58
  Speaker 2: Ah, I should rather be mute and fary done. I
• 2:47:03
  Speaker 2: am no baby, I that with bise prayers. I should
• 2:47:07
  Speaker 2: repent the evils I have done ten thousand worse than
• 2:47:12
  Speaker 2: ever yet I did. Would I perform if I might
• 2:47:15
  Speaker 2: have my will? If ONEm good dead in all my
• 2:47:19
  Speaker 2: life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.
• 2:47:24
  Speaker 5: Some loving friends convey the Emperor hence and give him
• 2:47:28
  Speaker 5: burial in his father's grave. My father and Lavinia shall
• 2:47:33
  Speaker 5: forthwith be closed in our household's monument. As for that
• 2:47:39
  Speaker 5: ravenous tiger Tamera, no funeral rite, nor man in mournful weed,
• 2:47:47
  Speaker 5: no mournful bell shall ring her burial, but throw her
• 2:47:52
  Speaker 5: forth to beasts and birds of prey. Her life was
• 2:47:56
  Speaker 5: beastly and devoid of pity, and being let birds on
• 2:48:02
  Speaker 5: her take pity.
• 2:48:04
  Speaker 1: Exon end of Act five, End of Titus Andronicus by
• 2:48:11
  Speaker 1: William Shakespeare, h