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Thy counsel, lad, smells of no cowardice.

DEMET RIUS

Sit fas aut nefas, till I find the stream
To cool this heat, a charm to calm these fits,
Per Stygia, per manes vehor.

Exeunt.

Scene II IT

Enter Titus Andronicus with his three sons, making a noise with hounds
and horns, and Marcus.

T IT US

The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey,
The fields are fragrant, and the woods are green.
Uncouple here, and let us make a bay,
And wake the emperor and his lovely bride,
And rouse the prince, and ring a hunter’s peal,
That all the court may echo with the noise.
Sons, let it be your charge, as it is ours,
To attend the emperor’s person carefully.
I have been troubled in my sleep this night,
But dawning day new comfort hath inspired. [10]

Here a cry of hounds, and wind horns in a peal, then enter Saturninus,
Tamora, Bassianus, Lavinia, Chiron, Demetrius, and their attendants.

Many good morrows to your majesty;
Madam, to you as many and as good.
I promisèd your grace a hunter’s peal.

SAT URNINUS

And you have rung it lustily my lords,
Somewhat too early for new-married ladies.

BASSIANUS

Lavinia, how say you?

LAVINIA