Speeches (Lines) for Demetrius
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Oppose not Scythia to ambitious Rome.
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Chiron, thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge,
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Why, boy, although our mother, unadvised,
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Ay, boy, grow ye so brave? |
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Not I, till I have sheathed
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Youngling, learn thou to make some meaner choice:
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Why makest thou it so strange?
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Then why should he despair that knows to court it
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Aaron, thou hast hit it. |
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Nor me, so I were one. |
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Sit fas aut nefas, till I find the stream
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Chiron, we hunt not, we, with horse nor hound,
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How now, dear sovereign, and our gracious mother!
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This is a witness that I am thy son. |
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15 |
Stay, madam; here is more belongs to her;
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16 |
Listen, fair madam: let it be your glory
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17 |
Away! for thou hast stay'd us here too long. |
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18 |
So, now go tell, an if thy tongue can speak,
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19 |
See, how with signs and tokens she can scrowl. |
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20 |
She hath no tongue to call, nor hands to wash;
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21 |
If thou hadst hands to help thee knit the cord. |
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22 |
Gramercy, lovely Lucius: what's the news? |
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23 |
What's here? A scroll; and written round about?
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24 |
But me more good, to see so great a lord
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25 |
I would we had a thousand Roman dames
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26 |
Come, let us go; and pray to all the gods
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27 |
Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus? |
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28 |
Soft! who comes here? |
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29 |
Villain, what hast thou done? |
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30 |
And therein, hellish dog, thou hast undone.
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31 |
I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point:
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32 |
Wilt thou betray thy noble mistress thus? |
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33 |
By this our mother is forever shamed. |
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34 |
Advise thee, Aaron, what is to be done,
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35 |
How many women saw this child of his? |
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36 |
What mean'st thou, Aaron? wherefore didst thou this? |
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37 |
For this care of Tamora,
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38 |
Show me a murderer, I'll deal with him. |
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Madam, depart at pleasure; leave us here. |
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