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PUBLIUS
What is your will?
T IT US
Know you these two?
PUBLIUS
The empress’ sons, I take them, Chiron, Demetrius.
T IT US
Fie, Publius, fie, thou art too much deceived;
The one is Murder, and Rape is the other’s name:
And therefore bind them, gentle Publius;
Caius and Valentine, lay hands on them.
Oft have you heard me wish for such an hour,
And now I find it; therefore bind them sure, [160]
And stop their mouths, if they begin to cry.
Exit.
CHIRON
Villains, forbear, we are the empress’ sons.
PUBLIUS
And therefore do we what we are commanded.
Stop close their mouths, let them not speak a word.
Is he sure bound? look that you bind them fast.
Enter Titus Andronicus with a knife, and Lavinia with a basin.
T IT US
Come, come, Lavinia; look, thy foes are bound.
Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me,
But let them hear what fearful words I utter.
O villains, Chiron and Demetrius,
Here stands the spring whom you have stained with mud, [170]
This goodly summer with your winter mixed.
You killed her husband, and for that vile fault
Two of her brothers were condemned to death,
My hand cut off and made a merry jest;
Both her sweet hands, her tongue, and that more dear
