William Shakespeare
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 142
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...Come, if the emperor's court can feast two brides, You are my guest, Lavinia, and your friends. 49o This day shall be a love-day, Tamora. Tit. To-morrow, an it please your majesty To hunt the panther and the hart with me, With horn and hound we'll ive your grace bonjour. Sat. Be it so, Titus, and gramercv too. ACT II. SCENe I. Rome. Before t/zepalaee. Enter AARON. Aar. Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top, Safe out of fortune's shot; and sits aloft, Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash; Advanced above ale envy's threatening reach. As when the gol en sun salutes the morn, And, having gilt the ocean with h1s beams, Gallops the zodiac in his glistering coach, And overlooks the highest-peering hills; So Tamora: Upon her wit doth earthly honour wait, 1o And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown. Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts, T o mount aloft with thy imperial mistress, And mount her pitch, whom thou in triumph long Hast risoner held, fetter'd in amorous chains And fiister bound to Aaron's charming eyes Than is Prometheus tied to Caucasus. Away with slavish weeds and servile thoughts! I will be bright, and shine in pearl and gold, To wait upon this new-made empress. 2o To wait, said I? to wanton with this queen, This goddess, this Semiramis, this nymph, This siren, that will charm Rome's Saturnine, And see his shipwreck and his commonweal's. Holloa! what storm is this? Enter DEMETR1US and CH1RON, braving. Dem. Chiron, thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge, And manners, to intrude where I am raced; And may, for aught thou know'st, a eeted be. ' C/zi. Demetrius, thou dost over-ween in all; And so in this, to bear me down with braves. 30...