As payment for the crown. (To Titus.) He did it not.
He was long dead ere I appeared, nor was there
A further need for friend, and I set out
To see Octavian, not indeed as King—
I laid the crown aside—but all the more
For that, no beggar. Drawing sword I spoke:—
“This I’d have used against you, and perchance
I would have dyed it with your very blood
If things here had gone better. That is o’er.
I sink it at your feet and lay it by.