136946To
fill with worme-holes
stately monuments,
947To feede obliuion with decay of things,
948To blot old bookes, and alter their contents,
949To plucke the quils from auncient rauens wings,
950To drie the old oakes
sappe, and cheri
sh springs:
951 To
spoile Antiquities of
hammerd
steele,
952 And turne the giddy round of Fortunes wheele.
137953To
shew the beldame daughters of
her daughter,
954To make the child a man, the man a childe,
955To
slay the tygre that doth liue by
slaughter,
956To tame the Vnicorne, and Lion wild,
957To mocke the
subtle in them
selues beguild,
958 To cheare the Plowman with increa
sefull crops,
959 And wa
st huge
stones with little water drops.
138960Why work'
st thou mi
schiefe in thy Pilgrimage,
961Vnle
sse thou could'
st returne to make amends?
962One poore retyring minute in an age
963Would purcha
se thee a thou
sand thou
sand friends,
964Lending him wit that to bad detters lends,
965 O this dread night, would'
st thou one howr come (backe,
966 I could preuent this
storme, and
shun thy wracke.
139967Thou cea
sele
sse lackie to Eternitie,
968With
some mi
schance cro
sse TARQVIN in his
flight.
969Deui
se extreames beyond extremitie,
970To make him cur
se this cur
sed crimefull night:
971Let ga
stly
shadowes his lewd eyes a
ffright,
972 And the dire thought of his committed euill,
973 Shape euery bu
sh a hideous
shapele
sse deuill.
140974Di
sturbe his howres of re
st with re
stle
sse trances,
975A
ffli
ct him in his bed with bedred grones,
976Let there bechaunce him pitifull mi
schances,
977To make him mone, but pitie not his mones:
978Stone him with hardned hearts harder then
stones,
979 And let milde women to him loo
se their mildne
sse,
980 Wilder to him then Tygers in their wildne
sse.