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For peace, for love, for league, and good to Rome.
Please you, therefore, draw nigh, and take your places.
SAT URNINUS
Marcus, we will.
A table brought in. Trumpets sounding, enter Titus, like a cook, placing
the meat on the table, and Lavinia with a veil over her face.
T IT US
Welcome, my lord; welcome, dread queen;
Welcome, ye warlike Goths; welcome, Lucius;
And welcome, all. Although the cheer be poor,
’Twill fill your stomachs; please you eat of it.
SAT URNINUS
Why art thou thus attired, Andronicus? [30]
T IT US
Because I would be sure to have all well,
To entertain your highness and your empress.
T AMORA
We are beholding to you, good Andronicus.
T IT US
And if your highness knew my heart, you were.
My lord the emperor, resolve me this:
Was it well done of rash Virginius
To slay his daughter with his own right hand,
Because she was enforced, stained, and deflowered?
SAT URNINUS
It was, Andronicus.
T IT US
Your reason, mighty lord? [40]
SAT URNINUS
Because the girl should not survive her shame,
