:55:03
This is the pearl
that pleased your empress' eye.
:55:11
And here's the base fruit
of his burning lust.
:55:19
Say, walleyed slave,
:55:22
whither wouldst thou convey
:55:25
this growing image
of thy fiendlike face?
:55:32
Why dost not speak?
:55:35
What?
:55:39
Deaf?!
:55:41
Ha ha ha ha!
:55:44
Not a word?
:55:47
A halter, soldiers!
:55:48
Hang him on this tree.
:55:52
And by his side,
:55:54
his fruit of bastardy!
:55:57
Touch not the boy!
:56:02
He is of royal blood.
:56:05
Too like the sire
for ever being good.
:56:08
First hang the child,
:56:11
that he may see it sprawl--
:56:13
A sight to vex
the father's soul withal.
:56:17
Get me a ladder!
:56:19
Lucius...save the child.
:56:23
If thou do this,
I'll show thee wondrous things
:56:27
that highly may advantage
thee to hear.
:56:30
If thou wilt not,
befall what may befall.
:56:33
I'll speak no more,
but vengeance rot you all!
:56:37
Ha ha ha! Say on,
:56:39
and if it please me
which thou speakst,
:56:41
thy child shall live,
:56:42
and I will see it nourished.
:56:45
And if it please thee!
:56:47
Why, assure thee, Lucius,
:56:49
'twill vex thy soul
to hear what I shall speak,
:56:53
for I must talk of murders,
rapes, and massacres,
:56:56
acts of black night,
abominable deeds,
:56:59
complots of mischief,
treason, villainies.