Reading Titus Andronicus — William Shakespeare

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Goth.

Renowned Lucius, from our troups I

straid,

To gaze vpon a ruinous Monasterie,

And as I earnestly did fixe mine eye

Vpon the wasted building, suddainely

I heard a childe cry vnderneath a wall:

I made vnto the noyse, when soone I heard,

The crying babe control'd with this discourse:

Peace Tawny slaue, halfe me, and halfe thy Dam,

Did not thy Hue bewray whose brat thou art?

Had nature lent thee, but thy Mothers looke,

Villaine thou might'st haue bene an Emperour.

But where the Bull and Cow are both milk‑white,

They neuer do beget a cole‑blacke‑Calfe:

Peace, villaine peace, euen thus he rates the babe,

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