[The Senators descend.]

Enter a Soldier.

SOLDIER.
My noble general, Timon is dead,
Entombed upon the very hem o’ th’ sea,
And on his gravestone this insculpture, which
With wax I brought away, whose soft impression
Interprets for my poor ignorance.

ALCIBIADES.
[Reads the Epitaph.] Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft.
Seek not my name. A plague consume you, wicked caitiffs left!
Here lie I, Timon, who alive all living men did hate.
Pass by and curse thy fill, but pass and stay not here thy gait.
These well express in thee thy latter spirits.
Though thou abhorred’st in us our human griefs,
Scorned’st our brains’ flow and those our droplets which
From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit
Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye
On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead
Is noble Timon, of whose memory
Hereafter more. Bring me into your city,
And I will use the olive with my sword,
Make war breed peace, make peace stint war, make each
Prescribe to other, as each other’s leech.
Let our drums strike.

[Exeunt.]

THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS

Contents

ACT I
[Scene I. Rome. Before the Capitol]
ACT II
[Scene I. Rome. Before the palace]
[Scene II. A Forest near Rome; a Lodge seen at a distance. Horns and cry of hounds heard]
[Scene III. A lonely part of the Forest]
[Scene IV. Another part of the Forest]
ACT III
[Scene I. Rome. A street]
[Scene II. Rome. A Room in Titus’s House. A banquet set out]
ACT IV
[Scene I. Rome. Before Titus’s House]
[Scene II. Rome. A Room in the Palace]
[Scene III. Rome. A public Place]
[Scene IV. Rome. Before the Palace]
ACT V
[Scene I. Plains near Rome]
[Scene II. Rome. Before Titus’s House]
[Scene III. Rome. A Pavilion in Titus’s Gardens, with tables, &c.]

Dramatis Personæ

SATURNINUS, elder son to the late Emperor of Rome, afterwards Emperor
BASSIANUS, brother to Saturninus