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[FIRST] GOTH
What says our general?
LUCIUS
Æmilius, let the emperor give his pledges
Unto my father and my uncle Marcus,
And we will come. March away.
Flourish. Exeunt.
Scene II IT
Enter Tamora and her two sons disguised.
T AMORA
Thus, in this strange and sad habilliament
I will encounter with Andronicus,
And say I am Revenge, sent from below
To join with him and right his heinous wrongs.
Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps
To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge;
Tell him Revenge is come to join with him,
And work, confusion on his enemies.
They knock and Titus opens his study door.
T IT US
Who doth molest my contemplation?
Is it your trick to make me ope the door, [10]
That so my sad decrees may fly away,
And all my study be to no effect?
You are deceived; for what I mean to do
See here in bloody lines I have set down,
And what is written shall be executed.
T AMORA
Titus, I am come to talk with thee.
T IT US
No, not a word. How can I grace my talk,
Wanting a hand to give it action?
