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DEMETRIUS: Soft! who comes here? Enter a Nurse, with a blackamoor Child in her arms |
Good morr ow, lords:O, tell me, did you see Aaron the Moor? |
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AARON: Well, more or less, or ne'er a whit at all,Here Aaron is; and what with Aaron now? |
O gentle Aaron, we are all undone!Now help, or woe betide thee evermore! |
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AARON: Why, what a caterwauling dost thou keep!What dost thou wrap and fumble in thine arms? |
O, that which I would hide from heaven's eye,Our empress' shame, and stately Rome's disgrace!She is deliver'd, lords; she is deliver'd. |
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AARON: To whom? |
I mean, she is brought a-bed. |
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AARON: Well, God give her good rest! What hath he sent her? |
A devil. |
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AARON: Why, then she is the devil's dam; a joyful issue. |
A joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue:Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toadAmongst the fairest breeders of our clime:The empress sends it thee, thy stamp, thy seal,And bids thee christen it with thy dagger's point. |
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AARON: It shall not die. |
Aaron, it must; the mother wills it so. |
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CHIRON: Rome will despise her for this foul escape. |
The emperor, in his rage, will doom her death. |
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AARON: ... Nay, he is your brother by the surer side,Although my seal be stamped in his face. |
Aaron, what shall I say unto the empress? |
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AARON: Why, so, brave lords! when we join in league,I am a lamb: but if you brave the Moor,The chafed boar, the mountain lioness,The ocean swells not so as Aaron storms.But say, again; how many saw the child? |
Cornelia the midwife and myself;And no one else but the deliver'd empress. |
