{"id":"01KG6S6T5R1DZEEV7PEW4BW3PV","cid":"bafkreicrddx7th5vxv6kf5eowwnyygmhc7pxiosq32o2qp2hs372umcmmy","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":4301,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:48.288Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":4184,"text":"# THE RAPE OF\n## LVCRECE.\n\nFrom the besieged Ardea all in post,\nBorne by the trustlese wings of false desire,\nLust-breathed TARQVIN, leaues the Roman host,\nAnd to Colatium beares the lightlese fire,\nVWhich in pale embers hid, lurkes to aspire,\nAnd girdle with embracing flames, the wast\nOf COLATINES fair loue, LVCRECE the chast.\n\nHaply that name of chast, vnhaply set\nThis bateless edge on his keene appetite:\nVWhen COLATINEXnwifely did not let,\nTo praise the cleare vnmatched red and white,\nVWhich triumph in that skie of his delight:\nVWhere mortal stars as bright as heaues Beauties,\nVWith pure aspects did him peculiar ducties.\n\nB\n\nII. 1—14\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LVCRECE.\n\nFor he the night before in Tarquins Tent,\nVulockt the treasure of his happie state:\nV Vhat prîșelește wealth the heauens had him lent,\nIn the possession of his beauteous mate.\nR eckning his fortune at such high proud rate,\nThat Kings might be espoused to more fame,\nBut King nor Peere to such a peerelește dame.\n\nO happinește enioyd but of a few,\nAnd it possess as soone decayed and done:\nAs is the morning silver melting dew,\nAgainst the golden splendour of the Sunne.\nAn expir’d date cancels ere well begunne.\n• Honour and Beautie in the owners armes,\n• Are weakelle fortrest from a world of harmes.\n\nBeautie it felse doth of it felse persuade,\nThe eies of men without an Orator,\nV Vhat need:th then Appologie be made\nTo set forth that which is so singular?\nOr why is Colatine the publisher\n• Of that rich jewell he should keepe vniknown,\n• From the euish eares because it is his owne?\nPerchance\n\nII. 15—35\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LYCRECE.\n\nPerchance his boast of Lucrece Sou'raigntie,\nSuggested this proud issue of a King:\nFor by our eares our hearts oft tayhted be:\nPerchance that enuie of so rich a thing\nBrauing compare, disdainefully did sting (vant,\nHis high picht thoughts that meaner men should\nThat golden hap which their superiors want.\n\nBut some vntimelie thought did instigate,\nHis all too timeleffe speede if none of those,\nHis honor, his affaires, his friends, his state,\nNeglected all, with swift intent he goes,\nTo quench the coale which in his liuer glowes.\nOrash false heate, wrapt in repentant cold,\nThy hastie spring still blasts and nere growes old.\n\nVWhen at Colatium this false Lord ariued,\nVVell was he welcom'd by the Romaine dame,\nVVithin whose face Beautie and Vertue striued,\nVWhich of them both should vnder prop her fame.\nVVhé Vertue brag'd, Beautie wold blush for shame,\nVWhen Beautie bosted blushes, in despight\nVertue would staine that ore with siluer white.\n\nB 2\n\nII. 36—56\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LVCRECE.\n\nBut Beautie in that white entituled,\nFrom Venus doves doth challenge that faire field,\nThen Vertue claimes from Beautie, Beauties red,\nVVhich Vertue gaue the golden age, to guild\nTheir filuer checkes, and cald it then their shield,\nTeaching them thus to vše it in the fight,\nVVhē shame affaibl, the red should fēce the white.\n\nThis Herauldry in LVCRECE face was feene,\nArgued by Beauties red and Vertues white,\nOf eithers colour was the other Queene:\nProuing from worlds minority their right,\nYet their ambition makes them still to fight:\nThe foueraignty of either being so great,\nThat oft they interchange ech others feat.\n\nThis silent warre of Lillies and of Roses,\nVVhich TARQUIN vew'd in her faire faces field,\nIn their pure rankes his traytor eye encloses,\nVVhere least betweene them both it should be kild.\nThe coward captiue vanquished, doth yeeld\nTo those two Armies that would let him goe,\nRather then triumph in so false a foe.\n\nNow\n\nII. 57—77\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LYCRECE\n","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S4F41TRQPM1YD9S932QST","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S6T5RNDT4422KM351N122","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:50.360Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:24:55.466Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}