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This sandy plot is plain; guide, if thou canst,

This after me.

''He writes his name with his staff, and guides it with feet and mouth''.

I have writ my name

Without the help of any hand at all.

Curs'd be that heart that forc'd us to this shift!

Write thou, good niece, and here display at last

What God will have discover'd for revenge.

Heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain,

That we may know the traitors and the truth!

''She takes the staff in her mouth, and guides it with her stumps, and writes''.

Tit. O! do ye read, my lord, what she hath writ?

Stuprum, Chiron, Demetrius.

Mar. What, what! the lustful sons of Tamora

Performers of this heinous, bloody deed?

Tit. Magni dominator poli,

''Tam lentus audis scelera? tam lentus vides?''

Mar. O calm thee, gentle lord! although I know

There is enough written upon this earth

To stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts

And arm the minds of infants to exclaims.

My lord, kneel down with me; Lavinia, kneel;

And kneel, sweet boy, the Roman Hector's hope;

And swear with me, as, with the woeful fere

And father of that chaste dishonour'd dame,

Lord Junius Brutus sware for Lucrece' rape,

That we will prosecute by good advice

Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths,

And see their blood, or die with this reproach.

 78 Stuprum: rape

86 exclaims: exclamations

87–91 My lord, kneel down, etc.; cf. n.

89 fere: mate

