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my loving friends.

And to my fortunes

and the people's favor,

commit my cause in balance

to be weighed.

Friends...

that have been thus

forward in my right,

I thank you all

and here dismiss you all.

And to the love and favor

of my country...

commit myself, my person,

and the cause!

Rome...

be as just

and gracious unto me...

as I am confident

and kind to thee.

Open the gates and let me in!

Long live Lord Titus,

my beloved brother.

Thanks, gentle tribune,

noble brother Marcus.

And welcome, nephews,

from successful wars,

you that survive

and those that sleep in fame.

Titus Andronicus,

the people of Rome

send thee by me,

their tribune and their trust,

this palliament of white

and spotless hue,

and name thee in election

for the empire...

with these our late-deceased

emperor's sons.

Be candidatus, then,

and put it on,

and help to set a head

on headless Rome.

A better head

her glorious body fits...

than this that shakes

for age and feebleness.

Rome, I have been

thy soldier 40 years...

and led my country's

strength successfully...

and buried one and 20

valiant sons.

Give me a staff of honor

for mine age,

but not a scepter

to control the world.

Upright he held it, lords,

that held it last.

Titus, thou shalt but ask

and have the empery.

Proud and ambitious tribune,

canst thou tell?

Patience, Prince Saturnine.

Romans!

Do me right!

Patricians, draw your swords

and sheathe them not...

till Saturninus

be Rome's emperor!

Andronicus, would thou

wert shipped to hell...

rather than rob me

of the people's hearts!

Proud Saturnine,

interrupter of the good,

that noble-minded Titus

means to thee.

Content thee, prince.

I will restore to thee

the people's hearts...

and wean them from themselves.

Andronicus,

I do not flatter thee

but honor thee,

and will do till I die.

My faction, if thou strengthen

with thy friends,

I will most thankful be.

People of Rome

and people's tribunes here,

I ask your voices

and your suffrages.

Will you bestow them

friendly on Andronicus?

To gratify the good Andronicus...

and gratulate

his safe return to Rome,

the people will accept

whom he admits.

Tribunes, I thank you,

and this suit I make...

that you create

your emperor's eldest son,

Lord Saturnine,

whose virtues will, I hope,

reflect on Rome

as Titan's rays on earth.

And if you will elect

by my advice,

crown him and say,

"Long live our emperor!"

Long live

our emperor Saturnine!

Patricians and plebeians,

we create Lord Saturninus

Rome's great emperor...

and say, "Long live

our Emperor Saturnine!"

Titus Andronicus,

for thy favors done to us

in our election this day,

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