Marc. And, for our father's sake and mother's care,
Now let me show a brother's love to thee.
Tit. Agree between you; I will spare my hand.
Luc. Then I'll go fetch an axe. 185
Marc. But I will use the axe. [Exeunt Lucius and Marcus.[4373]
Tit. Come hither, Aaron; I'll deceive them both:
Lend me thy hand, and I will give thee mine.
Aar. [Aside] If that be call'd deceit, I will be honest,[4374]
And never, whilst I live, deceive men so: 190
But I'll deceive you in another sort,
And that you'll say, ere half an hour pass. [Cuts off Titus's hand.
Re-enter Lucius and Marcus.[4375]
Tit. Now stay your strife: what shall be is dispatch'd.[4376]
Good Aaron, give his majesty my hand:[4377]
Tell him it was a hand that warded him 195
From thousand dangers; bid him bury it;
More hath it merited; that let it have.[4378]
As for my sons, say I account of them[4379]
As jewels purchased at an easy price;
And yet dear too, because I bought mine own. 200
Aar. I go, Andronicus: and for thy hand
Look by and by to have thy sons with thee.
[Aside] Their heads, I mean. O, how this villany[4380]
Doth fat me with the very thoughts of it![4381]
Let fools do good, and fair men call for grace, 205
Aaron will have his soul black like his face. [Exit.
Tit. O, here I lift this one hand up to heaven,[4382]
And bow this feeble ruin to the earth:
If any power pities wretched tears,[4383]
To that I call! [To Lav.] What, would thou kneel with me?[4384] 210
Do, then, dear heart; for heaven shall hear our prayers;
Or with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin dim,
And stain the sun with fog, as sometime clouds
When they do hug him in their melting bosoms.