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Lucrece (Quarto, 1594)
THE RAPE OF LVCRECE.
564Which to her Oratorie addes more grace.
565Shee puts the period often from his place,
570By her vntimely teares, her husbands loue,
571By holie humaine law, and common troth,
572By Heauen and Earth, and all the power of both:
573 That to his borrowed bed he make retire,
577Mudde not the fountaine that gaue drinke to thee,
578Mar not the thing that cannot be amended.
579End thy ill ayme, before thy shoote be ended.
580 He is no wood-man that doth bend his bow,
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