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Enter TITUS ANDRONICUS, with Hunters, & c., MARCUS, LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUSTITUS ANDRONICUS
The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey,SATURNINUS
The fields are fragrant and the woods are green:
Uncouple here and let us make a bay
And wake the emperor and his lovely bride
And rouse the prince and ring a hunter's peal,
That all the court may echo with the noise.
Sons, let it be your charge, as it is ours,
To attend the emperor's person carefully:
I have been troubled in my sleep this night,
But dawning day new comfort hath inspired.
A cry of hounds and horns, winded in a peal. Enter SATURNINUS, TAMORA, BASSIANUS, LAVINIA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, and Attendants
Many good morrows to your majesty;
Madam, to you as many and as good:
I promised your grace a hunter's peal.
And you have rung it lustily, my lord;BASSIANUS
Somewhat too early for new-married ladies.
Lavinia, how say you?LAVINIA
I say, no;SATURNINUS
I have been broad awake two hours and more.
Come on, then; horse and chariots let us have,MARCUS ANDRONICUS
And to our sport.
To TAMORA
Madam, now shall ye see
Our Roman hunting.
I have dogs, my lord,TITUS ANDRONICUS
Will rouse the proudest panther in the chase,
And climb the highest promontory top.
And I have horse will follow where the gameDEMETRIUS
Makes way, and run like swallows o'er the plain.
Chiron, we hunt not, we, with horse nor hound,
But hope to pluck a dainty doe to ground.
Exeunt
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