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  • Title: Lucrece (Quarto, 1594)
  • Editor: Hardy M. Cook

    • ISBN: 978-1-55058-411-0

    Copyright Hardy M. Cook. This text may be freely used for educational, non-profit purposes; for all other uses contact the Editor.
    Author: William Shakespeare
    Editor: Hardy M. Cook
    Not Peer Reviewed

    Lucrece (Quarto, 1594)

    THE RAPE OF LVCRECE.

    1485Lo here weeps HECVBA, here PRIAM dies,
    Here manly HECTOR faints, here TROYLVS sounds;
    Here friend by friend in bloudie channel lies:
    And friend to friend giues vnaduised wounds,
    And one mans lust these manie liues confounds.
    1490 Had doting PRIAM checkt his sons desire,
    TROY had bin bright with Fame, & not with fire.

    Here feelingly she weeps TROYES painted woes,
    For sorrow, like a heauie hanging Bell,
    Once set on ringing, with his own waight goes,
    1495Then little strength rings out the dolefull knell,
    So LVCRECE set a worke, sad tales doth tell
    To pencel'd pensiuenes, & colour'd sorrow,
    She lends them words, & she their looks doth bor-(row,

    Shee throwes her eyes about the painting round,
    1500And who shee finds forlorne, shee doth lament:
    At last shee sees a wretched image bound,
    That piteous lookes, to Phrygian sheapheards lent,
    His face though full of cares, yet shew'd content,
    Onward to TROY with the blunt swains he goes,
    1505 So mild that patience seem'd to scorne his woes.
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