Have you not understood me, Titus?

And in your eyes is still the cause defiance

That put my mouth in lock? Can I still live?

Can I still live with him, the man who now

In me God’s image venerates no more?

And if by keeping silence I had power

To necromance old Death and give him weapons

Were it my duty then to break my silence

Only to change one dagger for the other?

And were it more to do so?