Tam. Titus, I am come to talk with thee.[4736]
Tit. No, not a word: how can I grace my talk,
Wanting a hand to give it action?[4737]
Thou hast the odds of me; therefore no more.
Tam. If thou didst know me, thou wouldst talk with me.[4738] 20
Tit. I am not mad; I know thee well enough:
Witness this wretched stump, witness these crimson lines;[4739]
Witness these trenches made by grief and care;
Witness the tiring day and heavy night;
Witness all sorrow, that I know thee well 25
For our proud empress, mighty Tamora:
Is not thy coming for my other hand?[4740]
Tam. Know, thou sad man, I am not Tamora;[4741]
She is thy enemy, and I thy friend:
I am Revenge; sent from the infernal kingdom, 30
To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind,[4742]
By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes.[4743]
Come down and welcome me to this world's light;
Confer with me of murder and of death:
There's not a hollow cave or lurking-place, 35
No vast obscurity or misty vale,
Where bloody murder or detested rape
Can couch for fear, but I will find them out,
And in their ears tell them my dreadful name,
Revenge, which makes the foul offender quake.[4744] 40
Tit. Art thou Revenge? and art thou sent to me,
To be a torment to mine enemies?[4745]
Tam. I am; therefore come down and welcome me.[4746]
Tit. Do me some service ere I come to thee.
Lo, by thy side where Rape and Murder stands;[4747] 45
Now give some surance that thou art Revenge,[4748]
Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot-wheels;
And then I'll come and be thy waggoner,
And whirl along with thee about the globes.[4749]
Provide thee two proper palfreys, black as jet,[4750] 50
To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away,
And find out murderers in their guilty caves:[4751]
And when thy car is loaden with their heads,
I will dismount, and by the waggon-wheel[4752]
Trot like a servile footman all day long, 55
Even from Hyperion's rising in the east[4753]
Until his very downfall in the sea:
And day by day I'll do this heavy task,
So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there.
Tam. These are my ministers and come with me.[4754] 60
Tit. Are these thy ministers? what are they call'd?