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SCENE THE THIRD.

Lictors, Collatinus with a number of Soldiers, Titus, Mamilius, Tiberius.
Col.
What do I see? Mamilius yet
In Rome?

Tib.
Oh heaven! ...

Tit.
Oh inauspicious meeting!

Col.
And ye, have ye thus kept the absolute
And peremptory order of your father?
But wherefore are ye agitated thus?
Wherefore thus mute?—Ah, heaven be praised! perchance
I yet arrive in time.—Lictors, advance;
Be Titus and Tiberius instantly
In fetters bound ...

Tit.
Ah, hear us! ...

Col.
Rome, ere long,
Shall hear you, and the consul Brutus. Drag
To their paternal dwelling the two brothers;
And watch them there.

Tib.
Ah Titus!