{"id":"01KG6S6T5TW3S62Z4NPKKVH7VA","cid":"bafkreihbpdoufz35wmixokxyhyran7yjwtx7zclgfuokdlr2menk65wty4","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":4687,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:48.288Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":4574,"text":"C 3\n\nII. 246—266\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LYCRECE.\n\nV Vhy hunt I then for colour or excuses?\nAll Orators are dumbe when Beautie pleadeth,\nPoore wretches haue remorse in poore abuses,\nLoue thriues not in the hart that shadows dreadeth,\nAffection is my Captaine and he leadeth.\nAnd when his gaudie banner is displaid,\nThe coward fights, and will not be dismaide.\n\nThen childish feare auaunt, debating die,\nRespect and reason waite on wrinckled ages\nMy heart shall neuer counterm and mine cie,\nSad pause, and deepe regard beseemes the sage,\nMy part is youth and beates these from the stage.\nDesire my Pilot is, Beautie my prise,\nThen who feares sinking where such treasure lies?\n\nAs corne ore-growne by weedes: so heedfull feare\nIs almost choakt by vnrefsted lust:\nAway he steales with open listning eare,\nFull of foule hope, and full of fond mistrust:\nBoth which as scruitors to the vniust,\nSo crofse him with their opposit persuasion,\nThat now he vows a league, and now lnuasion.\n\nV Vith\n\nII. 267—287\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LVCRECE.\n\nWVithin his thought her heavenly image fits,\nAnd in the felfe fame feat fits COLATINE,\nThat eye which lookes on her confounds his wits,\nThat eye which him beholdes, as more deuine,\nVnto a view so false will not incline;\nBut with a pure appeale feekes to the heart,\nWVhich once corrupted takes the worfer part.\n\nAnd therein heartens vp his feruile powers,\nWVho flattred by their leaders iocound fhow,\nStolfe vp his lust: as minutes fill vp howres.\nAnd as their Captaine: fo their pride doth grow,\nfaring more flaunsh tribute then they owe.\nBy reprobate desire thus madly led,\nThe Romane Lord marcheth to LVCRECE bed.\n\nThe lockes betweene her chamber and his will,\nEch one by him inforft retires his ward:\nBut as they open they all rate his ill,\nWVhich driues the creeping theefe to fome regard,\nThe threshold grates the doore to haue him heard,\nNight wandring weezels shreek to fee him there,\nThey fright him, yet he still pursues his feare.\n\nll. 288—308\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LVCRECE.\n\nAs each unwilling portall yeelds him way,\nThrough little vents and cranies of the place,\nThe wind warres with his torch, to make him staie,\nAnd blowes the smoake of it into his face,\nExtinguishing his conduct in this case.\nBut his hot heart, which fond desire doth scorch,\nPuffes forth another wind that fires the torch.\n\nAnd being lighted, by the light he spies\n**LVCRECIAS** gloue, wherein her needle sticks,\nHe takes it from the rushes where it lies,\nAnd griping it, the needle his finger pricks.\nAs who should say, this gloue to wanton trickles\nIs not inurd; returne againe in ha;\nThou feest our mistreffé ornements are chast.\n\nBut all these poore forbiddings could not stay him,\nHe in the worst fence confters their denial:\nThe dores, the wind, the gloue that did delay him,\nHe takes for accidentall things of triall.\nOr as those bars which stop the hourly diall,\nVVho with a lingring staie his course doth let,\nTill euerie minute payes the howre his debt.\n\nSo\n\nII. 309—329\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LYCRECE.\n\nSo so, quoth he, these lets attend the time,\nLike little frosts that sometime threat the spring,\nTo ad a more reioying to the prime,\nAnd glue the sneaped birds more cause to sing.\nPain payes the income of each precious thing, (sands\nHuge rocks, high winds, strong pirats, shelves and\nThe merchant seares, ere rich at home he lands.\n\nNow is he come unto the chamber dore,\nThat shuts him from the Heaven of his thought,\nV which with a yeelding latch, and with no more,\nHath bard him from the blessed thing he sought.\nSo from himselfe impiety hath wrought,\nThat for his pray to pray he doth begin,\nAs if the Heauens should countenance his sin.\n","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S5MT97XGM4YY7WMQRMD7M","peer_type":"section","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S6T5RQN7DYC3CQ77HARSP","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:50.362Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:24:55.881Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}