2561786Yet
sometime
TARQVIN was pronounced plaine,
1787But through his teeth, as if the name he tore,
1788This windie tempe
st, till it blow vp raine,
1789Held backe his
sorrowes tide, to make it more.
1790At la
st it raines, and bu
sie windes giue ore,
1791 Then
sonne and father weep with equall
strife,
1792 Who
shuld weep mo
st for daughter or for wife.
2571793The one doth call her his, the other his,
1794Yet neither may po
sse
sse the claime they lay.
1795The father
saies,
shee's mine, ô mine
shee is
1796Replies her husband, do not take away
1797My
sorrowes intere
st, let no mourner
say
1798 He weepes for her, for
shee was onely mine,
1799 And onelie mu
st be wayl'd by
COLATINE.
2581800O, quoth
LVCRETIVS, I did giue that life
1801Which
shee to earely and too late hath
spil'd.
1802Woe woe, quoth
COLATINE,
shee was my wife,
1803I owed her, and tis mine that
shee hath kil'd.
1804My daughter and my wife with clamors
fild
1805 The di
sper
st aire, who holding
LVCRECE life,
1806 An
swer'd their cries, my daughter and my wife.
2591807BRVTVS who pluck't the knife from LVCRECE
side,
1808Seeing
such emulation in their woe,
1809Began to cloath his wit in
state and pride,
1810Burying in
LVCRECE wound his follies
show,
1811He with the Romains was e
steemed
so
1812 As
seelie ieering idiots are with Kings,
1813 For
sportiue words, and vttring fooli
sh things.
2601814But now he throwes that
shallow habit by,
1815Wherein deepe pollicie did him di
sgui
se,
1816And arm'd his long hid wits adui
sedlie,
1817To checke the teares in
COLATINVS eies.
1818Thou wronged Lord of Rome, quoth he, ari
se,
1819 Let my vn
sounded
selfe
suppo
s'd a foole,
1820 Now
set thy long experienc't wit to
schoole.