| ACT II SCENE II | A forest near Rome. Horns and cry of hounds heard. | |
| [
Enter TITUS ANDRONICUS, with Hunters, &c., MARCUS,
LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS
] |
| TITUS ANDRONICUS | The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey, |
| 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, | 5 |
| 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. | 10 |
[
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. |
| SATURNINUS | And you have rung it lustily, my lord; |
| Somewhat too early for new-married ladies. | 15 |
| BASSIANUS | Lavinia, how say you? |
| LAVINIA | I say, no; |
| I have been broad awake two hours and more. |
| SATURNINUS | Come on, then; horse and chariots let us have, |
| And to our sport. | 20 |
[To TAMORA] |
| Madam, now shall ye see |
| Our Roman hunting. |
| MARCUS ANDRONICUS | I have dogs, my lord, |
| Will rouse the proudest panther in the chase, |
| And climb the highest promontory top. | 25 |
| TITUS ANDRONICUS | And I have horse will follow where the game |
| Makes way, and run like swallows o'er the plain. |
| DEMETRIUS | Chiron, we hunt not, we, with horse nor hound, |
| But hope to pluck a dainty doe to ground. |
| [Exeunt] |