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IAGO in custody, and CASSIO brought in in a chair, with his leg bound up.

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pray you, in your letters,

When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,

Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that lov'd not wisely, but too well.

Set you down this:

And say, besides,—that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian, and traduced the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him—thus.

LOD. O bloody period !"

(Stabs himself.)

ACT V. S. 2.

THIRTEEN PLATES.

DRAWN AND ENGRAVED

BY FRANK HOWARD.

PLATES.

TITUS ANDRONICUS.

THE universal horror excited by the incidents of this dreadful tragedy has induced a hope among the admirers of Shakspeare, that it did not really come from his pen; but there are so many marks of transcendent power in the writing, that the doubt cannot be cherished. And there is another merit of the highest quality in the present subject, which ought to obtain for it a more patient and favourable examination. Paradoxical as it may appear, it is, perhaps, the most moral of all the dramas attributed to our great poet. The misfortunes of each party, dreadful or disgusting as they may be deemed, are all the consequence of their own misconduct. The cruelty of TITUS and his sons, in sacrificing ALARBUS, excited the enmity of TAMORA. TITUS's disregard of the betrothal of LAVINIA to BASSIANUS furnished the pretext for SATURNINUS's persecution of him.

LAVINIA Would have escaped her dreadful fate bad she not, with BASSIANUS, vented her taunts and reproaches upon TAMORA. TAMORA,

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