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."

16711631163"My body or my soul, which was the dearer,

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."

16911771177"Yet die I will not till my Collatine

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."

17011841184"My honor I'll bequeath unto the knife

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."