Which fhines here in the west.

Crм. Laud we the gods;

And let our crooked smokes climb to their noftrils
From our blefs'd altars! Publifh we this peace
To all our fubjects. Set we forward: Let

A Roman and a British enfign wave

Friendly together: fo through Lud's town march:
And in the temple of great Jupiter

Our peace we'll ratify; feal it with feasts.

Set on there :-Never was a war did cease,

Ere bloody hands were wash'd, with such a peace.

[Exeunt.

L1 iij

I

TITUS ANDRONICUS.

Saturninus, Son to the late Emperor of Rome, and afterwards declared Emperor himself.

Baffianus, Brother to Saturninus; in love with Lavinia. Titus Andronicus, a noble Roman, General against the Goths.

Marcus Andronicus, Tribune of the People; and Brother to Titus.

Aaron, a Moor, beloved by Tamora.

A Captain, Tribune, Messenger, and Clown; Romans.

Goths, and Romans.

Tamora, Queen of the Goths.

Lavinia, Daughter to Titus Andronicus.

A Nurfe, and a black Child.

Kinfmen of Titus, Senators, Tribunes, Officers, Soldiers, and

Attendants.

SCENE, Rome; and the Country near it.

TITUS ANDRONICUS.

ACT 1.

SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol.

The tomb of the Andronici appearing; the Tribunes and Senators aloft, as in the Senate. Enter, below, SATURNINUS and his followers, on one fide; and BASSIANUS, and his followers, on the other; with drum and colours.

SAT. Noble patricians, patrons of my right,
Defend the juftice of my cause with arms;
And, countrymen, my loving followers,
Plead my fucceffive title with your fwords:
I am his first-born fon, that was the last
That ware the imperial diadem of Rome;
Then let my father's honours live in me,
wrong mine age
with this indignity.

Nor

[right,

BAS. Romans,-friends, followers, favourers of my

If ever Baffianus, Cæfar's fon,

Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome,

Keep then this paffage to the Capitol;
And suffer not difhonour to approach
The imperial feat, to virtue confecrate,
To justice, continence, and nobility :
But let defert in pure election fhine;