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Help, Grandsire! Help!
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My aunt Lavinia
follows me everywhere.
:26:34
I know not why.
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Good Uncle Marcus,
see how swift she comes.
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Alas, sweet Aunt,
I know not what you mean.
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Stand by me, Lucius.
Do not fear thine aunt.
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Now, Lavinia, what means this?
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Soft!
So swiftly she turns the leaves.
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Help her.
:26:52
What would she find?
:26:55
Lavinia, shall I read?
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"This is the tragic tale of Philomel
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and treats of Tereus' treason
and his rape."
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See, Brother, see.
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Note how she quotes the leaves.
:27:10
Lavinia, wert thou thus surprised,
sweet girl,
:27:14
ravished and wronged
as Philomela was?
:27:16
Forced in the ruthless, vast,
and gloomy wood?
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Ay, such a place
there is where we did hunt.
:27:25
Oh, why should nature
build so foul a den
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unless the gods delight in tragedies?
:27:32
Give sign, sweet girl,
:27:34
what Roman lord it was
durst do this deed.
:27:44
My lord, look here.
Look here, Lavinia!
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This sandy plot is plain.
:27:49
Guide, if thou canst, this after me
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when I have writ my name
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without the help of
any hand at all.