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Whose crooked beak threats if he mount he dies。
So under his insulting falchion lies
Harmless Lucretia�察�marking what he tells
With trembling fear�察�as fowl hear falcons' bells。
'Lucrece��' quoth he�察�'this night I must enjoy thee。
If thou deny�察�then force must work my way��
For in thy bed I purpose to destroy thee��
That done�察�some worthless slave of thine I'll slay��
To kill thine honour with thy life's decay��
And in thy dead arms do I mean to place him��
Swearing I slew him�察�seeing thee embrace him。
'So thy surviving husband shall remain
The scornful mark of every open eye��
Thy kinsmen hang their heads at this disdain��
Thy issue blurred with nameless bastardy��
And thou�察�the author of their obloquy��
Shalt have thy trespass cited up in rhymes
And sung by children in succeeding times。
'But if thou yield�察�I rest thy secret friend��
The fault unknown is as a thought unacted��
;A little harm done to a great good end
For lawful policy remains enacted。
;The poisonous simple sometime is compacted
In a pure compound�察�being so applied��
His venom in effect is purified。
'Then�察�for thy husband and thy children's sake��
Tender my suit�察�bequeath not to their lot
The shame that from them no device can take��
The blemish that will never be forgot��
Worse than a slavish wipe or birth´hour's blot��
For marks descried in men's nativity
Are nature's faults�察�not their own infamy。'
Here with a cockatrice' dead´killing eye
He rouseth up himself�察�and makes a pause��
While she�察�the picture of pure piety��
Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws��
Pleads in a wilderness where are no laws
To the rough beast that knows no gentle right��
Nor aught obeys but his foul appetite。
But when a black´faced cloud the world doth threat��
In his dim mist th' aspiring mountains hiding��
From earth's dark womb some gentle gust doth get��
Which blows these pitchy vapours from their biding��
Hind'ring their present fall by this dividing��
So his unhallowed haste her words delays��
And moody Pluto winks while Orpheus plays。
Yet�察�foul night´waking cat�察�he doth but dally��
While in his hold´fast foot the weak mouse panteth��
Her sad behaviour feeds his vulture folly��
A swallowing gulf that even in plenty wanteth��
His ear her prayers admits�察�but his heart granteth
No penetrable entrance to her plaining。
;Tears harden lust�察�though marble wear with raining。
Her pity´pleading eyes are sadly fixed
In the remorseless wrinkles of his face��
Her modest eloquence with sighs is mixed��
Which to her oratory adds more grace。
She puts the period often from his place��
And midst the sentence so her accent breaks
That twice she doth begin ere once she speaks。
She conjures him by high almighty Jove��
By knighthood�察�gentry�察�and sweet friendship's oath��
By her untimely tears�察�her husband's love��
By holy human law and common troth��
By heaven and earth�察�and all the power of both��
That to his borrowed bed he make retire��
And stoop to honour�察�not to foul desire。
Quoth she�此�'Reward not hospitality
With such black payment as thou hast pretended��
Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee��
Mar not the thing that cannot be amended��
End thy ill aim before thy shoot be ended。
He is no woodman that doth bend his bow
To strike a poor unseasonable doe。
'My husband is thy friend´for his sake spare me��
Thyself art mighty´for thine own sake leave me��
Myself a weakling´do not then ensnare me��
Thou look'st not like deceit´do not deceive me。
My sighs like whirlwinds labour hence to heave thee。
If ever man were moved with woman's moans��
Be moved with my tears�察�my sighs�察�my groans��
'All which together�察�like a troubled ocean��
Beat at thy rocky and wrack´threat'ning heart��
To soften it with their continual motion��
For stones dissolved to water do convert。
O�察�if no harder than a stone thou art��
Melt at my tears�察�and be compassionate��
Soft pity enters at an iron gate。
'In Tarquin's likeness I did entertain thee��
Hast thou put on his shape to do him shame��
To all the host of heaven I complain me
Thou wrong'st his honour�察�wound'st his princely name。
Thou art not what thou seem'st�察�and if the same��
Thou seem'st not what thou art�察�a god�察�a king��
For kings�察�like gods should govern every thing。
'How will thy shame be seeded in thine age��
When thus thy vices bud before thy spring��
If in thy hope thou dar'st do such outrage��
What dar'st thou not when once thou art a king��
O�察�be rememb'red�察�no outrageous thing
From vassal actors can be wiped away��
Then kings' misdeeds cannot be hid in clay。
'This deed will make thee only loved for fear��
But happy monarchs still are feared for love��
With foul offenders thou perforce must bear��
When they in thee the like offences prove。
If but for fear of this�察�thy will remove��
For princes are the glass�察�the school�察�the book��
Where subjects' eyes do learn�察�do read�察�do look。
'And wilt thou be the school where Lust shall learn��
Must he in thee read lectures of such shame��
Wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern
Authority for sin�察�warrant for blame��
To privilege dishonour in thy name��
Thou back'st reproach against long´living laud��
And mak'st fair�察�reputation but a bawd。
'Hast thou command�拭�by him that gave it thee��
From a pure heart command thy rebel will��
Draw not thy sword to guard iniquity��
For it was lent thee all that brood to kill。
Thy princely office how canst thou fulfill��
When patterned by thy fault foul sin may say
He learned to sin�察�and thou didst teach the way��
'Think but how vile a spectacle it were
To view thy present trespass in another。
Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear��
Their own transgressions partially they smother��
This guilt would seem death´worthy in thy brother。
O�察�how are they wrapped in with infamies
That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes��
'To thee�察�to thee�察�my heaved´up hands�察�appeal��
Not to seducing lust�察�thy rash relier��
I sue for exiled majesty's repeal��
Let him return�察�and flatt'ring thoughts retire。
His true respect will prison false desire��
And wipe the dim mist from thy doting eyne��
That thou shalt see thy state and pity mine。'
'Have done�察�quoth he�察�'my uncontrolled tide
Turns not�察�but swells the higher by this let。
Small lights are soon blown out�察�huge fires abide��
And with the wind in greater fury fret。
The petty streams that pay a daily debt
To their salt sovereign�察�with their fresh falls' haste
Add to his flow�察�but alter not his taste。'
'Thou art'�察�quoth she�察�'a sea�察�a sovereign king��
And�察�lo�察�there falls into thy boundless flood
Black lust�察�dishonour�察�shame�察�misgoverning��
Who seek to stain the ocean of thy blood。
If all these petty ills shall change thy good��
Thy sea within a puddle's womb is hearsed��
And not the puddle in thy sea dispersed。
'So shall these slaves be king�察�and thou their slave��
Thou nobly base�察�they basely dignified��
Thou their fair life�察�and they thy fouler grave��
Thou loathed in their shame�察�they in thy pride。
The lesser thing should not the greater hide��
The cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot��
But low shrubs wither at the cedar's root。
'So let thy thoughts�察�low vassals to thy state´
;No more��' quoth he�察�'by heaven�察�I will not hear thee。
Yield to my love�察�if not�察�enforced hate��
Instead of love's coy touch�察�shall rudely tear thee��
That done�察�despitefully I mean to bear thee
Unto the base bed of some rescal groom��
To be thy partner in this shameful doom。'
This said�察�he sets his foot upon the light��
For light and lust are deadly enemies��
Shame folded up in blind concealing night��
When most unseen�察�then most doth tyrannize。
The wolf hath seized his prey�察�the poor lamb cries��
Till with her own white fleece her voice controlled
Entombs her outcry in her lips' sweet fold��
For with the nightly linen that she wears
He pens her piteous clamours in her head��
Cooling his hot face in the chastest tears
That ever modest eyes with sorrow shed。
O�察�that prone lust should stain so pure a bed��
The spots whereof could weeping purify��
Her tears should drop on them perpetually。
But she hath lost a dearer thing than life��
And he hath won what he would lose again。
This forced league doth force a further strife��
This momentary joy breeds months of pain��
This hot desire converts to cold disdain��
Pure Chastity is rifled of her store��
And Lust�察�the thief�察�far poorer than before。
Look as the full´fed hound or gorged hawk��
Unapt for tender smell or speedy flight��
Make slow pursuit�察�or altogether balk
The prey wherein by nature they delight��
So surfeit´taking Tarquin fares this
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