2611821Why COLATINE, is woe the cure for woe?

1822Do wounds helpe wounds, or griefe helpe greeuous (deeds?

1823Is it reuenge to giue thy selfe a blow,

1824For his fowle Act, by whom the faire wife bleeds?

1825Such childish humor from weake minds proceeds,

1826 Thy wretched wife mistooke the matter so,

1827 To slaie her selfe that should haue slaine her Foe.

2621828Couragious Romaine, do not steepe thy hart

1829In such relenting dew of Lamentations,

1830But kneele with me and helpe to beare thy part,

1831To rowse our Romaine Gods with inuocations,

1832That they will suffer these abhominations.

1833 (Since Rome her self in thē doth stand disgraced,)

1834 By our strong arms frō forth her fair streets chaced.

2631835Now by the Capitoll that we adore,

1836And by this chast bloud so vniustlie stained,

1837By heauens faire sun that breeds the fat earths store,

1838By all our countrey rights in Rome maintained,

1839And by chast LVCRECE soule that late complained

1840 Her wrongs to vs, and by this bloudie knife,

1841 We will reuenge the death of this true wife.