{"id":"01KG6S6TNQT772M17QHNFRPRS5","cid":"bafkreigx4vvzuwvm2gnhmpkfscwmybqwbb6jcolfrvbxk2hdte655hdl3q","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":6659,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:48.288Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 6","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":6546,"text":"And my laments would be drawn out too long,\nTo tell them all with one poore tired tong.\n\nThen be this all the taske it hath to say,\nDeare husband in the interest of thy bed\nAstranger came, and on that pillow lay,\nVVhere thou wast wont to rest thy wearie head,\nAnd what wrong else may be imagined,\nBy foule enforcement might be done to me,\nFrom that (alas) thy LVCRECE is not free.\n\nFor in the dreadfull dead of darke midnight,\nVVith shining Fauchion in my chamber came\nA creeping creature with a flaming light,\nAnd softly cried, awake thou Romaine Dame,\nAnd entertains my love, else lasting shame\nOn thee and thine this night I will inflict,\nIf thou my lous desire do contradict.\n\nFor\n\n11. 1611—1631\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LYCRECE.\n\nFor some hard sauour'd Groome of thine, quoth he,\nVnleffe thou yoke thy liking to my will\nIle murther straight, and then ile slaughter thee,\nAnd sweare I sound you where you did fulfill\nThe lothsome act of Lust, and so did kill\nThe lechors in their deed, this Act will be\nMy Fame, and thy perpetuall infamy.\n\nVVith this I did begin to start and cry,\nAnd then against my heart he set his sword,\nSwearing, vnleffe I tooke all patiently,\nI should not liue to speake another word.\nSo should my shame still rest vpon record,\nAnd neuer be forgot in mightie Roome\nTh'adulterat death of Lycrece, and her Groome.\n\nMine enemy was strong, my poore selfe weake,\n(And farre the weaker with so strong a seare)\nMy bloudie Iudge forbod my tongue to speake,\nNo rightfull plea might plead for justice there.\nHis scarlet Lust came euidence to sweare\nThat my poore beautie had purloin'd his eyes,\nAnd when the Iudge is rob'd, the pritioner dies.\n\nII. 1632—1652\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LYCRECE.\n\nO teach me how to make mine owne excuse,\nOr (at the least) this refuge let me finde,\nThough my groffé bloud be ftaind with this abuse,\nImmaculate, and spotleffe is my mind,\nThat was not forc’d, that neuer was inclind\nTo acceffarie yeeldings, but still pure\nDoth in her poyfon’d clofef yet endure.\n\nLo heare the hopeleffe Marchant of this loffe,\nWVith head declin’d, and voice dam’d vp with wo,\nWVith fad fet eyes and wretched armes acroffe,\nFrom lips new waxen pale, begins to blow.\nThe griefe away, that ftops his answer fo.\nBut wretched as he is he ftriues in vaine,\nWVhat he breaths out, his breath drinks vp again.\n\nAs through an Arch, the violent roaring tide,\nOutruns the eye that doth behold his haft:\nYet in the Edie boundeth in his pride,\nBacke to the ftrait that forft him on fo faft:\nIn rage fent out, recald in rage being paft,\nEuen fo his fighes, his forrowes make a faw,\nTo pufh griefe on, and back the fame grief draw.\nVVhich\n\nII. 1653—1673\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LVCRECE.\n\nVVhich speechless e woe of his poore she attendeth,\nAnd his vntimelie frenzie thus awaketh,\nDeare Lord, thy sorrow to my sorrow lendeth\nAnother power, no cloud by raining flaketh,\nMy woe too fencible thy passion maketh\nMore feeling painfull, let it than suffice\nTo drowne on woe, one paire of weeping eyes.\n\nAnd for my sake when I might charme thee so,\nFor shee that was thy LVCRECE, now attend me,\nBe sodainelie reuenged on my Foe.\nThine, mine, his own, suppose thou dost defend me\nFrom what is past, the helpe that thou shalt lend me\nComes all too late, yet let the Traytor die,\n“For sparing Justice feeds iniquitie.\n\nBut ere I name him, you faire Lords, quoth shee,\n(Speaking to those that came with COLATINE)\nShall plight your Honourable faiths to me,\nVVith swift pursuit to venge this wrong of mine,\nFor tis a meritorious faire designe,\nTo chase injustice with revenge full armes,\nKnights by their oaths should right poore Ladies M (harmes).\n\nII. 1674—1694\n\n\n# THE RAPE OF LVCRECE.\n","title":"Chunk 6"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S4F436ST5PDN9YJ2YBYD0","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S6TNKQYXX2ZTTKNNS1CG4","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6S6TNQM1QDE8GPCPDWVH21","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:50.871Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:24:56.481Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}