2461716Here with a
sigh as if her heart would breake,
1717Shee throwes forth TARQVINS name: he he,
she
saies,
1718But more then he, her poore tong could not
speake,
1719Till after manie accents and delaies,
1720Vntimelie breathings,
sicke and
short a
ssaies,
1721 Shee vtters this, he he faire Lords, tis he
1722 That guides this hand to giue this wound to me.
2471723Euen here
she
sheathed in her harmle
sse brea
st 1724A harmfull knife, that thence her
soule vn
sheathed,
1725That blow did baile it from the deepe vnre
st 1726Of that polluted pri
son, where it breathed:
1727Her contrite
sighes vnto the clouds bequeathed
1728 Her winged
sprite, & through her woūds doth
flie
1729 Liues la
sting date, from cancel'd de
stinie.
2481730Stone
still, a
stoni
sht with this deadlie deed,
1731Stood
COLATINE, and all his Lordly crew,
1732Till
LVCRECE Father that beholds her bleed,
1733Him
selfe, on her
selfe-
slaughtred bodie threw,
1734And from the purple fountaine
BRVTVS drew
1735 The murdrous knife, and as it left the place,
1736 Her blood in poore reuenge, held it in cha
se.
2491737And bubling from her bre
st, it doth deuide
1738In two
slow riuers, that the crim
son bloud
1739Circles her bodie in on euerie
side,
1740Who like a late
sack't Iland va
stlie
stood
1741Bare and vnpeopled, in this fearfull
flood.
1742 Some of her bloud
still pure and red remain'd,
1743 And
som look'd black, & that fal
se TARQVIN
stain'd.
2501744About the mourning and congealed face
1745Of that blacke bloud, a watrie rigoll goes,
1746Which
seemes to weep vpon the tainted place,
1747And euer
since as pittying
LVCRECE woes,
1748Corrupted bloud,
some waterie token
showes,
1749 And bloud vntainted,
still doth red abide,
1750 Blu
shing at that which is
so putri
fied.