Reading Titus Andronicus — William Shakespeare

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Tam.

King, be thy thoughts Imperious like thy

name.

Is the Sunne dim'd, that Gnats do flie in it?

The Eagle suffers little Birds to sing,

And is not carefull what they meane thereby,

Knowing that with the shadow of his wings,

He can at pleasure stint their melodie.

Euen so mayest thou, the giddy men of Rome,

Then cheare thy spirit, for know thou Emperour,

I will enchaunt the old Andronicus,

With words more sweet, and yet more dangerous

Then baites to fish, or hony stalkes to sheepe,

When as the one is wounded with the baite,

The other rotted with delicious foode.

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