Lucrece (Quarto, 1594)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: Hardy M. Cook

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Lucrece (Modern)
- Work
- Stanza
  1. Dedication
  2. Argument
  3. 1 — 5
  4. 6 — 10
  5. 11 — 15
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Lucrece (Quarto, 1594)
- Work
- Stanza
  1. Titlepage
  2. Dedication
  3. Argument
  4. 1 — 5
  5. 6 — 10
  6. 11 — 15
  7. 16 — 20
  8. 21 — 25
  9. 26 — 30
  10. 31 — 35
  11. 36 — 40
  12. 41 — 45
  13. 46 — 50
  14. 51 — 55
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  27. 116 — 120
  28. 121 — 125
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  31. 136 — 140
  32. 141 — 145
  33. 146 — 150
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  48. 221 — 225
  49. 226 — 230
  50. 231 — 235
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  53. 246 — 250
  54. 251 — 255
  55. 256 — 260
  56. 261 — 265
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¶Daughter, deare daughter, old LVCRETIVS cries,
¶That life was mine which thou hast here depriued,
¶If in the childe the fathers image lies,
¶VVhere shall I liue now LVCRECE is vnliued?
1755Thou wast not to this end from me deriued.
¶_If children prædecease progenitours,
¶_VVe are their ofspring and they none of ours.

¶Poore broken glasse, I often did behold
¶In thy sweet semblance, my old age new borne,
1760But now that faire fresh mirror dim and old
¶Shewes me a bare-bon'd death by time out-worne,
¶O from thy cheekes my image thou hast torne,
¶_And shiuerd all the beautie of my glasse,
¶_That I no more can see what once I was.

1765O time cease thou thy course and last no longer,
¶If they surcease to be that should suruiue:
¶Shall rotten death make conquest of the stronger,
¶And leaue the foultring feeble soules aliue?
¶The old Bees die, the young possesse their hiue,
1770_Then liue sweet LVCRECE, liue againe and see
¶_Thy father die, and not thy father thee.

¶By this starts COLATINE as from a dreame,
¶And bids LVCRECIVS giue his sorrow place,
¶And than in key-cold LVCRECE bleeding streame
1775He fals, and bathes the pale feare in his face,
¶And counterfaits to die with her a space,
¶_Till manly shame bids him possesse his breath,
¶_And liue to be reuenged on her death.

¶The deepe vexation of his inward soule,
1780Hath seru'd a dumbe arrest vpon his tongue,
¶VVho mad that sorrow should his vse controll,
¶Or keepe him from heart-easing words so long,
¶Begins to talke, but through his lips do throng
¶_VVeake words, so thick come in his poor harts aid,
1785_That no man could distinguish what he said.

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