Titus Andronicus: Act III, Scene i

 

Titus Andronicus.         Act 3, Scene 1.      Titus Andronicus

This speech is used in our interview with Sam Underwood and Valorie Curry.

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MARCUS ANDRONICUS

  1.  O brother, speak with possibilities,
  2.  And do not break into these deep extremes.

TITUS ANDRONICUS

  1.  Is not my sorrow deep, having no bottom?
  2.  Then be my passions bottomless with them.

MARCUS ANDRONICUS

  1.  But yet let reason govern thy lament.

TITUS ANDRONICUS

  1.  If there were reason for these miseries,
  2.  Then into limits could I bind my woes:
  3.  When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o’erflow?
  4.  If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad,
  5.  Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face?
  6.  And wilt thou have a reason for this coil?
  7.  I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow!
  8.  She is the weeping welkin, I the earth:
  9.  Then must my sea be moved with her sighs;
  10.  Then must my earth with her continual tears
  11.  Become a deluge, overflow’d and drown’d;
  12.  For why my bowels cannot hide her woes,
  13.  But like a drunkard must I vomit them.
  14.  Then give me leave, for losers will have leave
  15.  To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.