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The Rape of Lucrece.
To spoil antiquities of hammered steel,
And turn the giddy round of fortunes wheel.
And turn the giddy round of fortunes wheel.
To show the beldame daughters of her daughter,
To make the child a man, the man a child,
To slay the Tyger that doth live by slaughter,
To tame the Unicorne and Lion wilde,
To mock the subtile in themselves beguil'd;
To chear the Plowman with increaseful crops,
And waste huge stones with little water drops.
To make the child a man, the man a child,
To slay the Tyger that doth live by slaughter,
To tame the Unicorne and Lion wilde,
To mock the subtile in themselves beguil'd;
To chear the Plowman with increaseful crops,
And waste huge stones with little water drops.
Why workst thou mischief in thy Pilgrimage,
Unless thou couldst return to make amends?
One poor retiring minute in an age,
Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends,
Lending him wit, that to bad debtors lends.
O this dread night, wouldst thou one hour come backe,
I could prevent this storm, and shun thy wracke.
Unless thou couldst return to make amends?
One poor retiring minute in an age,
Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends,
Lending him wit, that to bad debtors lends.
O this dread night, wouldst thou one hour come backe,
I could prevent this storm, and shun thy wracke.
Thou ceaselesse lacky to Eternity,
With some mischance crosse Tarquin in his flight,
Devise extreams beyond extremity
To make him curse this cursed crimeful night:
Let ghastly shadows his lewd eyes affright,
And the dire thought of his committed evil,
Shape every bush a hideous shapeless Devil.
With some mischance crosse Tarquin in his flight,
Devise extreams beyond extremity
To make him curse this cursed crimeful night:
Let ghastly shadows his lewd eyes affright,
And the dire thought of his committed evil,
Shape every bush a hideous shapeless Devil.
Disturbe his howres of rest with restless trances,
Afflict him in his bed with bedrid grones;
Afflict him in his bed with bedrid grones;
Let
