:55:01
And when they showed me
this abhorred pit,
:55:04
they told me here,
at dead time of the night,
:55:08
a thousand fiends,
a thousand hissing snakes,
:55:14
ten thousand swelling toads
:55:17
would make such fearful
and confused cries
:55:20
as any mortal body hearing it
:55:23
should straight fall mad
or else die suddenly.
:55:27
No sooner had they told
this hellish tale
:55:31
then straight they told me
they would bind me here
:55:36
and leave me to
this miserable death.
:55:39
And then...
:55:42
they called me foul adulteress,
:55:45
lascivious Goth,
:55:47
and all the bitterest terms
:55:49
that ever ear
did hear to such effect.
:55:52
And had you not
by wondrous fortune come,
:55:56
this vengeance on me
had they executed.
:56:07
Revenge it,
as you love your mother's life,
:56:10
or be ye not henceforth
called my children.
:56:14
This is a witness
that I am thy son.
:56:18
And this for me,
struck home to show my strength.
:56:34
Ay.
:56:35
Come, Semiramis!
:56:37
Nay, barbarous Tamora,
:56:40
for no name fits thy nature
but thy own!
:56:42
Give me the poniard.
:56:43
Your mother's hand shall right
your mother's wrong.
:56:46
Stay, madam.
:56:48
Here is more belongs to her.
:56:51
First thrash the corn,
then after burn the straw.
:56:57
This minion stood upon her chastity,