The Plays and Poems of William ShakspearePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: If that be call'd deceit, I will be honest, And never, whilst I live, deceive men so: ? But I'll deceive you in another sort, And that you'll say, ere half an hour can pass. [Aside. [He cuts off Titus's Hand. Enter Lucius and Marcus. Tit. Now, stay your strife: what shall be, id despatch'd.? Good Aaron, give his majesty my hand: Tell him, it was a hand that warded him From thousand dangers; bid him bury it; More hath it merited, that let it have. As for my sons, say, I account of them As jewels purchas'd at an easy price; And yet dear too, because I bought mine own. Aar. I go, Andronicus: and for thy hand, Look by and by to have thy sons with thee: ? Their heads, I mean.?O, how this villainy [Aside- Doth fat me with the very thoughts of it! Let fools do good, and fair men call for grace, Aaron will have his soul black like his face. [Exitr Tit. O, here I lift this one hand up to heaven, And bow this feeble ruin to the earth: If any power pities wretched tears, To that I call: ?What, wilt thou kneel with me ? [To LiAVINIAi Do then, dear heart; for heaven shall hear our prayers; Or with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin dim, And stain the sun with fog, as sometime clouds, When they do hug him in their melting bosoms- Mah. O! brother, speak with possibilities, And do not break into these deep extremes. 3 ?with possibilities, ] Edition 1600 reads: ?tfith possibU litie. Todd. VOL. XXI. Y Tit. Is not my sorrow deep, having no bottom ? Then be my passions bottomless with them. Mar. But yet let reason govern thy lament. Tit. If there were reason for these miseries, Then into limits could I bind my woes: When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow ? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threat'ning the welkin w... |