O, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips, [Kisses TITUS. These sorrowful drops upon thy blood-stain'd face, The last true duties of thy noble son! Mar. Ay, tear for tear, and loving kiss for kiss, Thy brother Marcus tenders on thy lips : O, were the sum of these that I should pay 530 Luc. Come hither, boy; come, come, and learn of us To melt in showers: Thy grandsire lov'd thee well: Many a time he danc'd thee on his knee, Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow; Meet, and agreeing with thine infancy; In that respect then, like a loving child, Shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring, 540 Friends should associate friends in grief and woe : Bid him farewel; commit him to the grave; Do him that kindness, and take leave of him. Boy. O grandsire, grandsire! even with all my heart 'Would I were dead, so you did live again!— O lord, I cannot speak to him for weeping; My tears will choak me, if I ope my mouth. Enter Enter Romans, with AARON. Rom. You sad Andronici, have done with woes; Give sentence on this execrable wretch, That hath been breeder of these dire events. 550 Luc. Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him; There let him stand, and rave and cry for food: If any one relieves or pities him, For the offence he dies. This is our doom: Some stay, to see him fasten'd in the earth. Aar. O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb? I am no baby, I, that, with base prayers, I do repent it from my very soul. 560 Luc. Some loving friends convey the emperor hence, And give him burial in his father's grave : No funeral rites, nor man in mournful weeds, No mournful bell shall ring her burial; But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey: Her life was beast-like, and devoid of pity; 571 And, being so, shall have like want of pity. See See justice done on Aaron, that damn'd Moor, That like events may ne'er it ruinate. 2 |