{"id":"01KG6S6T5XW8BX426H250SVR41","cid":"bafkreibboycmjow6obavslqoi7psz7odt7dexkv36aq455vysdh7rqyr6q","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5394,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:48.288Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":5283,"text":"II. 729—749\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LYCRECE\n\nThey thinke not but that euerie eye can see,\nThe same disgrace which they them selues behold:\nAnd therefore would they still in dark enesse be,\nTo haue their vnseene sinne remaine vntold.\nFor they their guilt with weeping will vnfold,\nAnd graue like water that doth eate in steele,\nVppon my cheeks, what helpeleffe shame I seele.\n\nHere shee exclaims against repose and rest,\nAnd bids her eyes hereafter still be blinde,\nShee wakes her heart by beating on her brest,\nAnd bids it leape from thence, where it maie finde\nSome purer chest, to close so pure a minde.\nFranticke with griefe thus breaths shee forth her\nAgainst the vnseene secrecie of night. (spite,\n\nO comfort killing night, image of Hell,\nDim register, and notarie of shame,\nBlacke stage for tragedies, and murthers fell,\nVast sin-concealing Chaos, nourse of blame.\nBlinde muffled bawd, darke harber for defame,\nGrim caue of death, whispering conspirator,\nV Vith close-tong'd treason & the rauiher.\n\nF 3\n\nII. 750—770\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LYCRECE.\n\nO hatefull, vaporous, and foggy night,\nSince thou art guilty of my curelese crime:\nMuster thy mists to meete the Easterne light,\nMake war against proportion'd course of time.\nOr if thou wilt permit the Sunne to clime\nHis wonted height, yet ere he go to bed,\nKnit poysonous clouds about his golden head.\n\nVith rotten damps rauish the morning aire,\nLet their exhald vnholdsome breaths make sike\nThe life of puritie, the supreme faire,\nEre he arriue his wearie noone-tide pricke,\nAnd let thy mustie vapours march so thick,\nThat in their smoakie rankes, his smothred light\nMay set at noone, and make perpetuall night.\n\nVvere TARQUIN night, as he is but nights child,\nThe siluer shining Queene he would distaine;\nHert winckling handmaids to (by him defil'd)\nThrough nights black bosom should not peep again.\nSo should I haue coparmers in my paine,\nAnd fellowship in woe doth woe asswage,\nAs Palmers chat makes short their pilgrimage.\n\nVVhere\n\nII. 771—791\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LVCRECE\n\nWhere now I haue no one to blush with me,\nTo crofse their armes & hang their heads with mine,\nTo maske their brows and hide their infamie,\nBut I alone, alone must fit and pine,\nSeasoning the earth with showres of filuer brine;\nMingling my talk with tears, my greef with grones,\nPoore wasting monuments of lasting mones.\n\nO night thou furnace of fowle reeking smoke!\nLet not the iealous daie behold that face,\nWWhich underneath thy blacke all hiding cloke\nImmodestly lies martird with disgrace.\nKeepe still possession of thy gloomy place,\nThat all the faults which in thy raigne are made,\nMay likewise be fepulcherd in thy shade.\n\nMake me not object to the tell-tale day,\nThe light will shew characterd in my brow,\nThe storie of fweete chastities decay,\nThe impious breach of holy wedlocke vowe.\nYea the illiterate that know not how\nTo cipher what is writ in learned bookes,\nWill cote my lochsome trespasse in my lookes.\n\nII. 792—812\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LVCRECE.\n\nThe nourse to still her child will tell my storie,\nAnd fright her crying babe with TARQVINS name.\nThe Orator to deck his oratorie,\nV Vill couple my reproch to TARQVINS shame.\nFeast-finding minstrels tuning my defame,\nV Vill tie the hearers to attend ech line,\nHow TARQVIN wronged me, 1 COLATINE.\n\nLet my good name, that fence leffe reputation,\nFor COLATINES deare loue be kept vns potted:\nIf that be made a theame for disputation,\nThe branches of another roote are rotted;\nAnd vndeseru'd reproch to him alotted,\nThat is as cleare from this attaint of mine,\nAs I ere this was pure to COLATINE.\n","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S5N5THZ0C83B0KX3YPQCJ","peer_type":"section","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S6T5YJDJFA6JJ9FV04VJX","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:50.365Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:24:55.978Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}