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Titus Andronicus, V. ii

Revenge, which makes the foul offenders quake.

Tit. Art thou Revenge? and art thou sent to me,

To be a torment to mine enemies?

Tam. I am; therefore come down, and welcome me.

Tit. Do me some service ere I come to thee.

Lo, by thy side where Rape and Murder stands;

Now give some surance that thou art Revenge:

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.

Provide thee two proper palfreys, black as jet,

To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away,

And find out murtherers in their guilty caves:

And when thy car is loaden with their heads,

I will dismount, and by the waggon-wheel

Trot like a servile footman all day long,

Even from Hyperion's rising in the east

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.

Tit. Are these thy ministers? what are they call'd?

Tam. Rape and Murder; therefore called so,

'Cause they take vengeance of such kind of men.

Tit. Good Lord, how like the empress' sons they are,

And you the empress! but we worldly men

Have miserable, mad, mistaking eyes.

O sweet Revenge! now do I come to thee;

And, if one arm's embracement will content thee,

I will embrace thee in it by and by.

Tam. This closing with him fits his lunacy.

 46 surance: assurance

56 Hyperion: the old sun-god

59 Rapine: rape

65 worldly: living in the world

70 closing: agreeing

