Lucrece (Quarto, 1594)
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THE RAPE OF LVCRECE.
¶Till after a deepe grone) TARQVIN from hence,
¶Madame ere I was vp (repli'd the maide,)
¶The more to blame my sluggard negligence.
¶Yet with the fault I thus farre can dispence:
¶But Lady, if your maide may be so bold,
¶_And that deepe torture may be cal'd a Hell,
¶Go get mee hither paper, inke, and pen,
1290Yet saue that labour, for I haue them heare,
¶Bid thou be readie, by and by, to beare
¶A letter to my Lord, my Loue, my Deare,
Her
