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you that survive
and those that sleep in fame.
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Titus Andronicus,
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the people of Rome send thee by me,
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their tribune and their trust,
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this palliament of white
and spotless hue
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and name thee in election
for the empire
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with these our late-deceased
emperor's sons.
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Be candidatus, then,
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and put it on,
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and help to set a head
on headless Rome.
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A better head her glorious body fits
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than this that shakes
for age and feebleness.
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Rome, I have been
thy soldier forty years
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and led my country's
strength successfully...
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and buried one and twenty valiant sons.
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Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
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but not a scepter to control the world.
:21:58
Upright he held it, lords,
that held it last.
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Titus, thou shalt but ask
and have the empery.
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Proud and ambitious Tribune,
canst thou tell?
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Patience, Prince Saturnine.
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Romans, do me right!
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Patricians, draw your swords
and sheathe them not
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till Saturninus be Rome's emperor!
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Andronicus, would thou
wert shipped to hell
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rather than rob me
of the people's hearts!
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Proud Saturnine,
interrupter of the good
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that noble-minded Titus means to thee.
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Content thee, Prince.
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I will restore to thee
the people's hearts
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and wean them from themselves.
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Andronicus,
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I do not flatter thee
but honor thee,
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and will do till I die.
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My faction,
if thou strengthen with thy friends,
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I will most thankful be.
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People of Rome
and people's tribunes here,
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I ask your voices
and your suffrages.
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Will you bestow them friendly
on Andronicus?