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CHIRON

And if she do, I would I were an eunuch.
Drag hence her husband to some secret hole,
And make his dead trunk pillow to our lust. [130]

T AMORA

But when ye have the honey we desire,
Let not this wasp outlive, us both to sting.

CHIRON

I warrant you, madam, we will make that sure.
Come, mistress, now perforce we will enjoy
That nice-preservèd honesty of yours.

LAVINIA

O Tamora, thou bear’st a woman’s face...

T AMORA

I will not hear her speak, away with her.

LAVINIA

Sweet lord, entreat her hear me but a word.

DEMET RIUS

Listen, fair madam, let it be your glory
To see her tears; but be your heart to them [140]
As unrelenting flint to drops of rain.

LAVINIA

When did the tiger’s young ones teach the dam?
O, do not, learn her wrath; she taught it thee.
The milk thou suck’dst from her did turn to marble;
Even at thy teat thou hadst thy tyranny.
Yet every mother breeds not sons alike:
Do thou entreat her show a woman’s pity.

CHIRON

What! wouldst thou have me prove myself a bastard?

LAVINIA