title: Titus Andronicus (The Oxford Shakespeare)
author: William Shakespeare
description: This 1 st edition volume is part of The Oxford Shakespeare series. Published in 1984 by Oxford University Press, it is edited by Eugene M. Waith. The dust jacket states that Dr. Waith "is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English Literature, Yale University. He has edited MACBETH for the Yale Shalespeare &amp; BARTHOLOMEW FAIR for the Yale Ben Jonson."
zlib_text: TITUS ANDRONICUS
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  TITUS ANDRONICUS
  William Shakespeare
  
  TITUS ANDRONICUS
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  ACT I.
  
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  SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol
  Flourish. Enter the TRIBUNES and SENATORS aloft; and then enter
  below SATURNINUS and his followers at one door, and BASSIANUS
  and his followers at the other, with drums and trumpets
   SATURNINUS. Noble patricians, patrons of my right, Defend the
  justice of my cause with arms; And, countrymen, my loving followers,
  Plead my successive title with your swords. I am his first born son that
  was the last That ware the imperial diadem of Rome; Then let my father's
  honours live in me, Nor wrong mine age with this indignity. BASSIANUS.
  Romans, friends, followers, favourers of my right, If ever Bassianus,
  Caesar's son, Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome, Keep then this
  passage to the Capitol; And suffer not dishonour to approach The imperial
  seat, to virtue consecrate, To justice, continence, and nobility; But let
  desert in pure election shine; And, Romans, 