Tit. 'But!' How, if that fly had a father and mother?[4428][4433] 60
How would he hang his slender gilded wings,[4428]
And buzz lamenting doings in the air![4428][4434]
Poor harmless fly,[4428]
That, with his pretty buzzing melody,[4428]
Came here to make us merry! and thou hast kill'd him.[4428][4435] 65
Marc. Pardon me, sir; it was a black ill-favour'd fly,[4428][4436]
Like to the empress' Moor; therefore I kill'd him.[4428]
Tit. O, O, O,[4428][4437]
Then pardon me for reprehending thee,[4428]
For thou hast done a charitable deed.[4428] 70
Give me thy knife, I will insult on him;[4428]
Flattering myself, as if it were the Moor[4428][4438]
Come hither purposely to poison me.[4428]
There's for thyself, and that's for Tamora.[4428]
Ah, sirrah![4428][4439] 75
Yet, I think, we are not brought so low,[4428][4440]
But that between us we can kill a fly[4428]
That comes in likeness of a coal-black Moor.[4428]
Marc. Alas, poor man! grief has so wrought on him,
He takes false shadows for true substances. 80
Tit. Come, take away. Lavinia, go with me:[4441]
I'll to thy closet; and go read with thee
Sad stories chanced in the times of old.
Come, boy, and go with me: thy sight is young,
And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle. [Exeunt.[4442] 85
FOOTNOTES:
[4323]
Act iii. Scene i.] Rowe. Actus
Tertius. Ff. Omitted in Qq.
Rome. A street] Capell. A street in Rome. Theobald.
Enter....] Enter the Iudges and Senatours with Titus two sonnes bound, passing on the Stage to the place of execution, and Titus going before pleading. Qq Ff.
[4324] now you] you now Rowe (ed. 2).