Came in and satisfied' him.

O the pernicious caitiff!

I found it in my chamber:

Oth.
How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief

That was my wife's?

Cas.

And he himself confess'd, but even now,
That there he dropp'd it, for a special purpose,
Which wrought to his desire.

Oth.

O fool! fool! fool!
Cas. There is, besides, in Roderigo's letter,-
How he upbraids Iago, that he made him
Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came
That I was cast: And even but now he spake,
After long seeming dead,-Iago hurt him,
Iago set him on.

Lod. You must forsake this room, and go with us;
Your power and your command is taken off,
And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave,

If there be any cunning cruelty,

That can torment him much, and hold him long,
It shall be his: You shall close prisoner rest,
Till that the nature of your fault be known
To the Venetian state:Come, bring him away.
Oth. Soft you; a word or two, before you go.

I have done the state some service, and they know it;
No more of that:-I pray you, in your letters, ́
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one, that lov'd not wisely, but too well;
Of one, not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one, whose hand,
Like the base Júdean, threw a pearl away,

Richer than all his tribe; of one, whose subdu'd eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,

Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicínal gum: Set you down this:
And say, besides, that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian, and traduc'd the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog,

Lod. O bloody period!

And smote him-thus.

Gra.

[Stabs himself.

All, that 's spoke, is marr'd.

Oth. I kiss'd thee, ere I kill'd thee;-No way but this

Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

[Falling upon DES.

[Dies. Cas. This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon; For he was great of heart.

To IAGO.

Lod.
O Spartan dog,
More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea!
Look on the tragick loading of this bed;
This is thy work: the object poisons sight;-
Let it be hid.-Gratiano, keep the house,
And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
For they succeed to you.-To you, lord governor,
Remains the censure of this hellish villain;
The time, the place, the torture,-O enforce it!
Myself will straight aboard; and, to the state,
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

[Exeunt.

TITUS ANDRONICUS.

VOL. XII.

B

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

Saturninus, son to the late emperor of Rome, and afterwards declared emperor himself.

Bassianus, brother to Saturninus; in love with Lavinia. Titus Andronicus, a noble Roman, general against the Goths.

Marcus Andronicus, tribune of the people; and brother to Titus.

Aaron, a moor, beloved by Tamora.

A captain, tribune, messenger, and clown; Romans.
Goths, and Romans.

Tamora, queen of the Goths.

Lavinia, daughter to Titus Andronicus.

A nurse, and a black child.

Kinsmen of Titus, senators, tribunes, officers, soldiers,

and attendants.

SCENE,

Rome; and the Country near it.

́TITUS ANDRONICUS.

ACT I.....SCENE I.

Rome. Before the Capitol.

The Tomb of the Andronici appearing; the Tribunes and Senators aloft, as in the Senate. Enter, below, SATURNINUS and his Followers, on one side; and BASSIANUS and his Followers, on the other; with Drum and Colours.

Sat. Noble patricians, patrons of my right,
Defend the justice of my cause with arms;
And, countrymen, my loving followers,
Plead my successive title with your swords:
I am his first-born son, that was the last
That ware the imperial diadem of Rome;
Then let my father's honours live in me,
Nor wrong mine age with this indignity.

Bas. Romans,-friends, followers, favourers of my right,

If ever Bassianus, Cæsar's son,

Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome,
Keep then this passage to the Capitol;
And suffer not dishonour to approach
The imperial seat, to virtue consecrate,
To justice, continence, and nobility:
But let desert in pure election shine;

And, Romans, fight for freedom in your choice.

Enter MARCUS ANDRONICUs, aloft, with the Crown. Mar. Princes,-that strive by factions, and by friends, Ambitiously for rule and empery,

Know, that the people of Rome, for whom we stand
A special party, have, by common voice,

In election for the Roman empery,