16611561156"To kill myself," quoth she, "alack, what were it
11571157But with my body my poor soul's pollution?
11581158They that lose half with greater patience bear it
11591159Than they whose whole is swallowed in confusion.
11601160That mother tries a merciless conclusion
11611161Who, having two sweet babes, when death takes one,
11621162Will slay the other and be nurse to none."
11641164When the one pure, the other made divine?
11651165Whose love of either to myself was nearer
11661166When both were kept for heaven and Collatine?
11671167Ay me, the bark pilled from the lofty pine
11681168His leaves will wither and his sap decay;
11691169So must my soul, her bark being pilled away."
16811701170"Her house is sacked, her quiet interrupted,
11711171Her mansion battered by the enemy,
11721172Her sacred temple spotted, spoiled, corrupted,
11731173Grossly engirt with daring infamy.
11741174Then let it not be called impiety
11751175If in this blemished fort I make some hole
11761176Through which I may convey this troubled soul."
11781178Have heard the cause of my untimely death,
11791179That he may vow, in that sad hour of mine,
11801180Revenge on him that made me stop my breath.
11811181My stainèd blood to Tarquin I'll bequeath,
11821182Which, by him tainted, shall for him be spent,
11831183And as his due writ in my testament."
11851185That wounds my body so dishonorèd.
11861186'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life;
11871187The one will live, the other being dead.
11881188So of shame's ashes shall my fame be bred,
11891189For in my death I murder shameful scorn;
11901190My shame so dead, mine honor is new born."