THE
HISTORIE
OF
Eurialus
and
Lucretia
.
WHen
Sigismund
kept
his
Court
at
Sienna
,
it
fortuned
that
upon
the
way
to
his
Palace
,
which
was
adjoyning
to
S.
Marthas
Chappell
,
hee
encountred
foure
Ladies
whom
feature
and
nobilitie
,
age
and
habit
had
almost
made
equalls
,
and
in
the
generall
repute
not
mortalls
but
Goddesses
:
Had
there
beene
but
three
of
them
it
had
beene
a
pardonable
errour
to
judge
them
for
those
,
whom
fame
hath
made
Paris
see
in
a
vision
.
Sigismund
,
although
old
in
yeares
,
yet
young
in
desires
was
much
addicted
to
the
courting
of
Ladies
,
nor
did
any
object
beget
in
him
a
delight
equall
to
that
of
an
elegant
beautie
.
At
this
sight
allighting
from
his
Horse
he
was
enterteined
in
their
armes
,
and
turning
to
his
Courtiers
asked
if
they
had
ever
beheld
such
delicate
peeces
:
professing
that
it
was
his
doubt
whether
they
were
humane
faces
,
for
that
their
lookes
were
heavenly
if
not
Angelicall
.
The
Ladies
fixing
their
eyes
upon
the
ground
by
their
modestie
gave
an
addition
to
their
beautie
.
For
the
red
diffused
in
their
Cheekes
rendered
such
a
colour
,
as
the
Ivorie
of
India
distained
with
Vermilion
,
or
the
snow
of
Lilie
married
to
the
purple
of
a
Rose
.
But
among
these
Lucretia
sparkled
with
greatest
lustre
,
a
Lady
not
yet
twentie
married
in
the
family
of
the
Camilli
to
Menelaus
a
rich
Lord
,
unworthy
to
be
the
Gaoler
of
such
preciousnesse
,
yet
worthy
to
bee
deceived
by
his
wife
,
and
to
bee
taught
the
note
of
Aprill
;
her
stature
taller
then
the
rest
,
her
haire
thicke
,
which
shee
had
not
cast
backe
like
a
Virgin
,
but
bound
up
in
the
rich
imprisonment
of
Gold
and
Pearle
,
her
forehead
high
,
and
of
a
comely
largenesse
,
nor
drawne
through
with
a
wrinkle
,
her
browes
daintily
arched
with
blacke
,
and
few
haires
distracted
from
themselves
with
a
just
distance
.
Her
eyes
lightning
with
such
a
splendor
that
they
put
out
the
beholders
;
with
these
shee
slew
and
made
alive
:
her
straight
nose
made
an
equall
division
betweene
her
checkes
;
nothing
more
amiable
than
these
cheekes
,
nothing
more
delicious
,
which
with
her
smile
were
dimpled
:
Her
mouth
small
,
her
lippes
Corall
,
her
teeth
Christall
,
and
when
shee
talked
,
it
was
not
so
much
speech
as
harmonie
.
What
should
I
speake
of
her
chin
or
neck
,
seeing
that
in
the
whole
frame
there
was
nothing
but
excellencie
.
Her
exteriour
parts
did
speake
her
inward
beautie
,
and
so
oft
as
shee
was
seene
,
so
oft
was
her
husband
envied
;
besides
shee
was
very
facetious
,
and
spoke
like
the
mother
of
the
Gracchi
,
or
the
daughter
of
Hortensius
,
and
in
her
discourses
modestie
and
sweetnesse
stood
competitours
,
shee
made
not
a
shew
of
honestie
with
a
severe
brow
,
but
of
modestie
with
a
cheerefull
one
;
nor
bold
,
nor
timerous
,
but
attempted
with
a
civill
bashfulnesse
;
shee
carried
a
masculine
spirit
in
a
feminine
brest
.
Lucretia
was
the
Theame
of
every
discourse
,
and
the
Argument
upon
which
Caeaesar
and
the
whole
Court
imployed
their
Oratorie
.
When
shee
turned
,
the
eyes
of
the
spectatours
turned
,
as
if
they
had
no
motion
but
what
they
borrowed
from
her
:
for
her
looks
were
as
attractive
as
the
ftraines
of
the
Thracian
Lyre
,
and
led
all
in
triumph
after
them
.
But
Eurialus
a
Lord
of
Frankenland
was
transported
with
a
desire
more
violently
than
any
other
a
man
most
fit
for
love
,
whether
you
looked
upon
his
face
,
or
fortunen
.
His
age
two
and
thirtie
,
and
his
stature
rather
comely
than
tall
,
his
eyes
shining
and
full
,
and
his
other
parts
graced
with
a
kinde
of
majestie
,
answered
each
other
with
a
most
exquisite
symmetrie
.
The
other
Courtiers
were
all
impoverished
by
the
war
:
but
Eurialus
,
who
was
rich
both
in
his
owne
revenew
,
and
his
Princes
favour
,
saluted
every
day
with
a
new
bravery
:
his
traine
of
followers
great
,
richly
appareled
and
gallantly
mounted
,
so
that
he
wanted
nothing
but
leasure
to
awaken
that
gentle
heate
of
the
soule
,
which
men
call
love
.
Let
posteritie
cease
now
to
admire
the
tale
of
Thisbe
&
Pyramus
.
For
they
were
neighbours
and
th'
adjoyning
wall
,
Might
easily
be
their
loves
originall
.
Eurialus
is
now
no
more
his
owne
Master
;
he
no
sooner
saw
,
but
hee
was
set
on
more
with
what
he
saw
,
and
his
thoughts
dwell
no
where
but
in
Lucretia
.
But
he
meta
reciprocall
love
;
and
this
is
the
wonder
,
that
in
so
great
a
raritie
of
perfections
and
choise
of
beauties
,
Eurialus
should
pitch
upon
none
but
Lucretia
,
and
Lucretia
fasten
upon
none
but
Eurialus
:
yet
at
the
first
either
of
them
being
ignorant
of
the
others
flame
,
either
of
them
thought
they
were
in
vaine
inflamed
.
But
neither
of
these
had
any
knowledge
of
the
other
,
either
by
the
eye
or
care
:
He
was
of
Germany
,
the
Lady
of
Thuscanie
,
and
wanting
the
commerce
of
Language
,
they
discoursed
onely
with
their
eyes
:
Lucretia
therefore
wounded
with
heavie
paine
and
fed
upon
with
hidden
fires
,
forgetting
now
that
she
is
a
wife
:
and
the
memory
of
husband
lives
onely
in
her
hate
;
Thus
cherishing
her
wound
,
and
carrying
the
figure
of
Eurialus
deepely
imprinted
in
her
brest
shee
enters
into
this
soliloquie
with
herselfe
;
How
is
it
that
I
now
nauseate
at
my
former
diet
:
The
imbraces
of
my
husband
are
but
hated
confinements
,
and
his
kisses
as
the
arrests
of
death
:
the
Idea
of
that
stranger
who
stood
next
Caesar
doth
ever
present
it selfe
to
my
imagination
,
yet
if
thou
canst
(
poore
Lucretia
)
Out
of
thy
brest
which
is
yet
chast
,
Let
such
notions
be
effac'd
.
O
happy
I
if
could
,
but
a
sweet
violence
leads
me
captive
;
judgement
prompts
one
thing
,
but
desire
countermands
it
with
another
suggestion
:
I
see
what
is
best
by
the
light
of
my
reason
,
but
pursue
the
contrary
by
the
instigation
of
my
passion
.
But
what
?
nothing
but
a
stranger
rellish
my
pallate
?
must
another
world
be
the
boundure
of
my
exorbitancie
?
But
alas
,
whom
doth
not
that
forme
take
,
certainely
it
doth
me
:
and
I
cannot
,
will
not
live
if
mercy
be
not
the
chicfe
ingredient
in
his
constitution
,
but
shall
I
conforme
my selfe
to
the
appetite
of
a
Travelour
,
who
when
he
hath
plentifully
feasted
shall
rise
and
goe
away
without
giving
thankes
:
But
now
his
worth
nor
sweetnesse
of
aspect
Doe
threaten
or
oblivion
or
neglect
.
Let
me
therefore
dispell
these
mists
of
doubts
and
feares
,
and
confident
in
the
powerfull
assistance
of
my
owne
beautie
,
presume
him
to
bee
my
prisoner
,
as
I
am
his
.
But
shall
I
forsake
mother
,
husband
,
&
countrey
?
why
not
?
shee
is
cruell
,
and
he
unworthy
,
and
that
is
my
countrey
where
I
delight
to
live
:
but
my
reputation
will
suffer
.
But
why
should
the
buzze
of
fameawe
me
,
since
I
shall
not
heare
it
:
they
dare
do
nothing
who
are
so
anxiously
studious
of
their
credit
:
nor
am
I
alone
in
this
kinde
of
love
;
Helen
,
Medea
,
and
Ariadne
are
my
precedents
,
and
crimes
passe
unnoted
in
the
universalitie
of
the
offenders
.
Thus
disputed
the
Lady
with
her selfe
,
and
poore
Eurialus
is
melted
with
an
equall
fire
.
Lucretia
had
a
house
adjoyning
to
the
Court
,
so
that
Eurialus
could
not
come
to
the
Pallace
,
but
he
received
a
gentle
influence
shot
by
Lucretia
from
out
some
window
:
but
so
oft
as
shee
saw
him
,
so
oft
did
shee
blush
,
so
that
the
Emperour
read
her
love
in
those
red
letters
,
and
passing
by
her
house
,
he
would
sometimes
pull
downe
Eurialus
his
hat
in
his
eyes
,
as
if
hee
envied
him
the
fruition
of
so
daintie
a
spectacle
.
Lucretia
being
alone
by
herself
would
resolve
to
extinguish
this
new
flame
,
yet
his
presence
ever
rekindled
it
,
for
his
sight
was
both
the
fire
and
fewell
.
As
a
dry
field
,
once
set
on
fire
,
If
the
winds
blow
it
,
flameth
higher
.
So
did
Lucretia
burne
.
True
is
that
opinion
of
the
wise
,
that
chastitie
is
most
religiously
enshrined
in
a
humble
cottage
;
and
lust
the
inscparable
associate
of
great
fortune
inhabiteth
the
stateliest
buildings
.
Lucretia
having
now
often
observed
Eurialus
,
and
unable
to
give
her
passion
the
checke
,
shee
sate
in
counsel
with
her
owne
thoughts
,
what
Cabinet
to
choose
where
shee
might
safely
lay
them
up
:
For
He
doth
most
torture
feele
,
That
doth
his
flame
conceale
.
Shee
had
an
old
servant
,
by
his
name
Sosias
,
by
his
countrey
a
high
German
;
him
shee
intendeth
to
assault
,
not
so
much
trusting
the
man
as
his
nation
.
Cesar
was
then
going
through
the
Citie
with
a
great
traine
,
and
when
shee
knew
Eurialus
was
neare
the
house
,
shee
called
Sosias
,
and
commanding
him
to
looke
downe
,
asked
if
the
world
would
not
bee
posed
to
produce
such
another
troope
of
young
gallants
,
their
compositions
so
strong
,
and
yet
so
lovely
,
somewhat
troubled
her
faith
to
beleeve
,
if
they
were
men
of
that
kind
,
which
her
native
Thuscanie
bred
.
They
are
of
immortall
birth
And
sent
from
heaven
to
earth
.
Had
fortune
drawne
me
a
husband
out
of
this
Lottery
of
men
,
although
blind
,
yet
could
shee
not
have
erred
;
should
you
have
told
mee
thus
much
of
your
countrimen
,
I
had
given
no
credit
to
your
relation
,
but
now
my
eyes
come
in
and
confute
my
unbeleefe
;
I
suppose
that
lying
Northerly
they
are
beholden
to
the
cold
for
much
of
their
fairenesse
.
But
know
you
any
of
them
said
the
Lady
,
he
told
her
many
;
but
Lucretia
not
willing
to
be
long
at
Rovers
,
but
to
come
more
speedily
to
her
marke
,
asked
if
hee
knew
Eurialus
of
Frankenland
,
as
my self
said
Sosias
;
but
why
make
you
that
question
?
I
shall
tell
thee
said
Lucretia
,
and
I
know
my
secret
will
be
under
seale
,
for
thy
goodnesse
bespeakes
my
confidence
.
It
is
hee
in
whom
my
soule
mooveth
,
nor
will
my
thoughts
give
any
truce
to
my
sufferings
,
untill
I
bee
made
knowne
to
him
,
let
it
bee
your
errand
to
tell
him
I
languish
for
him
;
I
aske
you
but
this
,
and
for
this
aske
you
what
you
please
;
what
is
this
said
Sosias
that
I
heare
?
can
I
act
,
nay
can
I
think
such
a
villanie
?
shall
I
betray
my
master
,
and
bee
a
knave
now
I
am
old
,
a
name
I
trembled
at
when
I
was
young
;
rather
dispossesse
your
brest
of
so
uncleane
a
spirit
,
and
follow
not
the
counsells
of
your
deluding
hope
:
Love
hath
easily
the
repulse
,
if
you
make
head
against
his
first
sallies
:
but
who
by
flattering
themselves
shall
give
ground
to
this
sweete
mischiefe
,
they
sell
their
libertie
to
a
most
insolent
master
,
and
bind
themselves
to
one
who
will
never
give
them
backe
their
Indentures
:
your
fire
cannot
be
hid
with
so
much
secrecy
,
but
my
master
will
smell
the
smoke
,
and
then
the
greatnes
of
the
fault
may
give
your
expectation
assurance
what
your
punishment
will
be
.
Peace
foole
said
Lucretia
,
in
a
heart
prepossest
with
love
there
is
no
roome
for
terror
:
she
feares
nothing
,
who
feares
not
death
,
and
is
resolved
to
stand
the
malice
of
the
extreamest
event
.
But
(
replied
Sosias
)
will
you
sullie
the
splendour
of
your
familie
,
or
do
you
thinke
it
an
honour
to
be
the
first
adultresse
of
your
house
?
nor
must
you
imagine
you
can
sinne
,
and
securelie
sinne
.
You
have
the
guard
of
a
thousand
eyes
about
you
,
besides
your
husbands
two
,
which
have
a
faculty
to
discover
secrets
above
that
thousand
;
Your
servants
are
but
so
many
spies
,
and
if
you
bribe
them
into
a
silence
,
yet
may
your
little
dog
bark
,
and
reveale
the
fact
with
his
inarticulate
Dialects
:
The
bed
,
which
was
opprest
with
your
lascivious
weight
shall
bee
a
plaintive
against
you
,
and
the
curtaines
will
disclose
that
lust
which
they
did
once
conceale
so
closely
.
For
it
is
a
curse
attending
high
crimes
,
not
to
finde
where
they
may
put
affiance
.
But
admit
you
deceive
the
diligent
observation
of
Espialls
,
yet
you
cannot
bee
mask'd
from
the
vindictive
eye
of
Heaven
,
which
will
penetrate
into
the
most
abstruse
recesses
.
In
your
owne
bosome
shall
you
carry
your
owne
tormenter
,
&
the
light
of
your
conscience
will
ever
waite
upon
the
darkenesse
of
your
sinne
.
I
confesse
these
truths
said
Luerelia
,
but
by
the
furious
concitation
of
my
spirits
I
am
hurried
to
their
contrary
:
I
see
the
precipice
,
yet
wittingly
doe
I
precipitate
.
Love
and
fury
have
usurped
upon
me
,
and
will
not
suffer
reason
to
bee
interressed
in
their
possession
:
Oft
have
I
wrastled
but
in
vaine
,
and
therefore
conclude
to
execute
loves
Imperious
mandates
:
by
these
white
haires
(
said
groaning
Sosias
)
by
this
loyall
brest
,
by
my
faithfull
services
I
conjure
you
to
curbe
this
passion
,
and
in
that
bee
your selfe
your
selfes
best
Physition
:
for
the
first
degree
of
cure
consisteth
in
your
willingnesse
to
be
cured
.
Well
Sosias
(
said
Libcretia
)
modestie
commands
me
to
embrace
your
counsell
:
I
have
but
one
refuge
left
,
by
death
to
prevent
this
mischiefe
.
Collatines
wife
with
her
dagger
vindicated
the
fact
committed
,
but
by
a
nobler
course
of
justice
I
will
anticipate
the
commission
.
I
shall
never
permit
that
,
replied
Sosias
.
But
who
(
said
Lucretia
)
can
hinder
a
minde
resolved
to
dye
?
The
noble
Portia
,
deprived
of
all
instruments
of
death
,
swallowed
downe
burning
coales
,
and
by
fire
made
a
way
to
follow
the
ghost
of
her
beloved
Brutus
.
Nay
(
said
Sosias
)
if
you
are
possessed
with
so
resolute
a
furie
,
my
studies
shall
bee
rather
to
provide
for
your
life
than
your
reputation
;
for
this
fame
is
but
a
counterfeit
glosse
:
the
worst
man
may
have
a
very
faire
one
,
and
the
best
bee
published
with
a
harsh
comment
.
I
shall
therefore
assay
Eurialus
,
and
expresse
all
dilligence
in
the
service
:
with
these
words
her
flame
advanced
,
and
her
wavering
minde
anchord
upon
stronger
hopes
:
but
his
purpose
went
not
with
his
tongne
;
for
he
only
intended
to
extenuate
her
heat
by
delayes
,
and
put
her
off
with
false
loves
,
untill
either
the
Emperour
should
leave
the
Citie
,
or
she
her
resolution
:
Least
upon
her
refusall
,
she
might
get
her
death
,
or
a
new
agent
,
he
often
feigned
to
have
bin
with
Eurialus
,
and
that
hee
thought
himselfe
infinitely
happie
in
her
love
,
and
laid
waite
for
all
occasion
to
have
some
conference
with
her
:
sometime
he
told
her
hee
could
have
no
accesse
to
him
:
sometime
upon
pretence
of
businesse
,
hee
absented
himselfe
from
home
,
and
so
frustrated
her
ficke
soule
with
dilatorie
evasions
.
But
that
hee
might
have
one
truth
among
so
many
lies
,
he
once
gave
Eurialus
a
light
intimation
;
O
said
hee
,
how
extremely
are
you
beloved
?
Then
sodainely
withdrew
himselfe
,
and
left
the
poore
Gentleman
unsatisfied
:
but
certainely
Eurialus
could
give
himselfe
no
rest
,
a
stealthy
fire
consuming
his
veines
,
which
did
incinerate
his
marrow
;
yet
little
did
hee
know
Sosias
,
and
lesse
did
hee
thinke
that
hee
came
from
Lucretia
.
So
incident
is
it
to
man
never
to
have
his
hopes
planted
in
so
high
a
mounture
as
his
desires
:
but
at
last
seeing
himselfe
to
be
indeede
in
love
,
he
severely
beganne
thus
to
call
his
judgement
into
question
.
Thou
knowest
Eurialus
how
Tyrannicall
the
Scepter
of
love
is
;
a
fit
of
laughter
,
with
the
penance
of
many
a
teare
,
a
minute
of
joy
bought
at
the
deare
expence
of
a
moneths
feare
,
and
a
continuall
dying
without
a
death
;
but
at
last
instructed
with
many
a
triall
,
how
vaine
it
was
to
struggle
with
his
passion
,
hee
cried
for
quarter
and
yeelded
;
comsorting
himselfe
with
the
consideration
of
the
company
,
who
before
him
had
sought
under
the
banner
of
Love
.
Hee
remembers
some
of
the
great
Masters
in
Phylosophy
admitted
in
his
Schoole
,
and
Princes
made
subject
to
his
Empire
,
denying
that
assertion
which
denies
,
That
Majestie
and
Love
,
In
the
same
spheare
can
move
.
Hercules
(
said
hee
)
the
indubiate
seede
of
the
Gods
,
disarmed
himselfe
at
the
command
of
his
Mistresse
,
and
changing
his
Clubbe
for
a
Distaffe
,
drew
a
thread
with
the
same
hand
with
which
hee
drew
blood
:
for
it
is
a
passion
naturally
implanted
in
all
;
the
airie
regiments
are
galled
with
this
arrow
,
For
the
Turtle
's
lov'd
,
they
say
,
Of
the
greene
Poppinjay
.
And
the
cold
inhabitants
of
the
water
have
this
hie
,
Bores
by
whetting
their
teeth
,
Lyons
by
shaking
their
manes
,
and
the
Harts
by
their
bellowings
give
signalls
of
this
furie
:
nothing
is
love-proofe
,
nothing
impregnable
to
love
.
Why
then
should
I
rebelliously
oppose
a
prescript
of
nature
?
No
,
since
love
is
so
universall
a
Conquerour
,
I
am
content
to
be
his
spoile
;
being
now
confirmed
,
his
Quaere
is
for
some
good
old
woman
,
that
might
carry
a
paper
to
the
Lady
,
one
at
last
by
the
assistance
of
Nisas
(
an
excellent
professour
in
that
Science
)
was
procured
to
convey
his
Letter
,
which
spake
thus
.
Eurialus
to
Lucretia
.
Lady
,
these
lines
should
bring
you
health
,
if
the
Writer
had
any
,
but
his
health
,
and
the
hope
of
it
,
have
a
necessary
dependance
upon
your
goodnesse
.
Above
life
I
love
you
,
nor
can
I
thinke
you
a
stranger
to
this
truth
,
for
you
might
see
my
love
in
my
teares
,
and
heare
it
in
my
sighes
.
Take
it
graciously
if
I
give
you
the
Table
of
my
thoughts
:
That
beautie
which
hath
seated
you
above
comparison
,
hath
surprised
mee
,
and
the
Venus
of
your
face
hath
brought
mee
into
captivitie
.
I
haue
beene
ever
ignorant
of
this
same
love
,
untill
you
taught
mee
the
lesson
,
and
although
I
long
contended
to
defend
my selfe
from
this
servitude
,
yet
were
my
attempts
ever
subdued
by
your
splendour
,
and
the
beames
of
your
eyes
more
powerfull
than
those
of
the
Sunne
,
mollified
mee
to
an
obedience
.
I
am
therefore
your
Captive
,
and
follow
the
triumphant
Chariot
of
your
excellencies
:
you
have
taken
from
me
the
use
of
repose
,
and
repast
;
nay
my selfe
from
my selfe
:
you
are
the
subject
of
my
meditations
and
the
center
of
all
my
passions
,
it
is
you
whom
I
feare
and
love
,
hope
,
and
weepe
for
:
you
have
al
that
I
am
,
so
that
whilst
I
am
divided
from
my selfe
,
I
am
undivided
in
you
;
you
sit
upon
my
life
and
death
;
let
not
your
sentence
be
more
cruell
,
than
your
eyes
seeme
mercifull
:
my
letters
begge
onely
this
favour
to
have
the
honour
to
speake
with
you
:
the
grant
will
bee
my
happinesse
,
but
the
deniall
my
ruine
;
farewell
,
Soule
of
my
being
.
These
Letters
,
when
his
seale
had
enjoyned
them
secrecie
,
were
by
this
woman
dispatched
with
all
speede
to
Lucretia
,
whom
shee
sound
without
any
company
,
but
that
of
her
thoughts
;
Lady
(
said
shee
)
this
missive
comes
to
kisse
your
hands
at
the
directions
of
the
noblest
love
in
Caesars
Court
,
who
humbly
begs
that
you
would
be
but
as
mercifull
as
you
are
faire
.
Lucretia
knowing
her
to
be
a
noted
queane
,
was
highly
offended
,
not
so
much
at
the
message
,
as
the
messenger
.
Thou
filthy
bawd
(
said
shee
)
what
boldnesse
,
or
madnesse
rather
could
counsell
you
to
profane
the
threshold
of
a
Magnifico's
Pallace
,
and
bring
with
you
a
little
silent
bawd
,
(
a
letter
forsooth
)
to
scale
the
chast
brest
of
a
matron
,
and
negotiate
the
violation
of
religious
wedlocke
.
Were
it
not
that
I
had
my
owne
honour
,
in
a
higher
esteeme
than
your
desert
,
you
should
bid
farewell
to
all
Letters
,
and
bee
no
longer
the
divells
footpost
.
Be
gone
therefore
with
your
packet
:
but
no
matter
give
me
the
Letters
,
and
by
their
entertainement
let
your
hot
gallant
bee
instructed
how
coldly
his
suit
advanceth
.
The
paper
shee
presently
tore
in
peeces
,
and
spitting
upon
it
(
for
her
teeth
watred
)
threw
it
upon
the
ground
,
where
shee
kicked
it
up
and
downe
,
as
if
the
very
conceit
would
not
let
her
hold
her
heeles
still
.
and
thus
(
said
she
)
lewd
woman
shouldst
thou
bee
used
:
but
bee
gone
,
and
shew
thy
love
to
thy selfe
,
in
thy
care
not
to
meete
my
husband
,
who
will
pay
thee
my
debt
with
interest
.
The
Bawd
might
have
feared
to
have
miscarried
in
the
action
,
had
not
her
experience
taught
her
,
that
the
strong
desires
of
women
were
inseparable
from
their
strong
denialls
.
For
the
present
shee
ask'd
the
Lady
mercie
,
and
if
shee
had
offended
,
begd
a
pardon
for
her
sinne
of
ignorance
,
but
withall
advising
her
not
to
commit
the
greater
sinne
of
contempt
,
shee
tooke
her
leave
.
So
returning
to
Eurialus
,
Happie
lover
said
shee
,
take
up
your
Passion
,
and
give
your
sorrow
leave
to
breath
.
Time
would
not
give
her
leave
to
vie
Letters
with
you
,
but
shee
outvies
you
with
her
love
.
I
found
her
in
a
great
fit
of
melancholie
,
but
the
powerfull
name
of
Eurialus
conjured
her
up
,
and
the
soveraigne
receipt
of
your
letters
,
which
shee
often
kissed
,
miraculously
restored
her
to
her selfe
.
With
that
shee
departed
,
and
conscious
of
the
foule
play
shee
had
showne
him
resolv'd
to
come
no
more
upon
that
stage
.
Soone
as
the
old
Hag
was
gone
,
Lucretia
finding
the
fragments
of
the
Letter
,
set
the
dislocated
parts
,
and
with
much
questing
retrived
the
lost
words
:
so
that
shee
made
a
legible
copie
which
a
thousand
times
shee
read
,
and
kis'd
a
thousand
times
;
then
wrapping
it
up
in
a
fine
cloth
,
shee
layd
it
up
with
her
Iewels
,
but
prizd
it
above
them
:
and
repeating
now
one
word
,
now
another
,
shee
drunke
love
in
deepely
,
and
determined
to
write
to
him
:
the
minde
of
her
letter
was
this
:
Eurialus
,
Teach
your
hopes
a
lower
ambition
than
to
fly
at
a
game
which
is
not
feasible
:
trouble
not
your selfe
to
trouble
mee
,
but
save
the
charge
both
of
Letters
,
and
messengers
,
which
imply
that
you
conceit
me
to
be
of
their
trade
,
who
sell
themselves
,
and
are
both
their
owne
shoppes
,
and
wares
.
Be
disdeceived
Sir
,
I
am
not
shee
for
whom
your
errour
mistooke
mee
,
nor
a
woman
to
bee
sued
to
by
the
mediation
of
a
Bawd
.
Seeke
to
prostitute
some
other
,
I
will
bee
the
mistresse
onely
of
an
honorable
love
,
doe
with
others
as
your
pleasure
shall
counsaile
you
.
Farewell
Sr.
and
let
your
requests
to
mee
be
both
advis'd
,
and
noble
.
Although
this
Epistle
seemed
harsh
to
him
,
and
of
a
straine
different
from
the
Bawds
relation
,
yet
it
opened
a
way
to
their
mutuall
commerce
of
Letters
,
for
he
could
not
but
trust
her
,
who
had
adventured
to
trust
him
:
his
ignorance
of
the
Italian
was
a
principall
impediment
,
but
love
made
him
so
ingenious
,
and
so
industrious
,
that
in
a
short
time
hee
arrived
to
a
competencie
in
the
Language
,
so
that
inabled
to
bee
his
owne
Secretary
hee
answerd
to
this
purpose
;
Lady
;
It
is
an
act
of
injustice
to
be
so
highly
offended
with
mee
for
that
my
Letters
were
presented
to
you
by
a
hand
so
infamous
:
for
seeing
I
was
a
stranger
and
knew
it
not
,
by
the
law
my
fact
may
bee
excused
by
my
ignorance
.
That
I
did
send
to
you
let
,
it
be
an
imputation
upon
my
love
,
and
such
a
love
,
as
harbours
nothing
but
honorable
intentions
.
Let
my
confidence
of
your
chastitie
beget
in
you
an
assurance
of
my
love
:
for
I
detest
a
woman
that
is
prodigall
of
her
honour
,
of
which
being
once
despoiled
,
shee
is
not
the
subject
of
any
thing
which
can
bee
the
subject
of
a
commendation
.
Beautie
is
a
good
,
no
lesse
corruptible
than
lovely
,
and
if
it
wants
modesty
,
it
wants
too
many
graines
to
bee
current
.
But
shee
who
hath
joyned
chastitie
to
her
forme
,
hath
inrolled
her selfe
in
the
list
of
the
Gods
.
In
you
faire
Lady
is
met
this
admirable
union
,
the
sole
cause
which
hath
Sainted
you
in
his
devotion
,
who
would
sollicite
nothing
that
might
prejudice
your
fame
.
Deigne
me
onely
the
libertie
to
speake
with
you
,
that
my
words
may
give
you
a
full
display
of
that
affection
,
which
cannot
be
bounded
in
the
narrow
limits
of
my
Letter
.
This
Epistle
was
accompanied
with
a
present
,
rich
for
the
materialls
,
and
curious
for
the
worke
,
and
thus
replied
upon
by
Lucretia
.
Sr.
I
received
your
Letters
,
and
admit
of
your
Apologie
.
That
you
love
me
is
none
of
my
wonders
,
for
you
are
neither
the
first
,
nor
the
onely
man
that
hath
homaged
to
my
beautie
.
Many
have
,
and
yet
doe
court
me
,
but
their
travailes
were
frustrated
,
and
doe
not
promise
to
your selfe
any
better
event
.
To
speake
with
you
I
neither
can
,
nor
will
:
to
finde
me
alone
is
impossible
unlesse
you
could
assume
the
shape
of
a
Bird
,
which
is
no
lesse
impossible
;
for
my
lodgings
are
high
,
and
a
guard
hath
made
all
the
entries
inaccessible
.
I
accept
your
token
,
and
am
wonne
to
that
onely
by
the
elegancie
of
the
workemanship
.
But
to
let
you
know
I
will
neither
be
in
your
debt
,
nor
take
it
as
a
pledge
of
your
love
,
I
returne
you
a
Ring
with
a
stone
in
it
of
such
a
valew
,
that
what
you
sent
mee
was
rather
sold
than
given
.
Farewell
.
Eurialus
returned
this
answer
.
Excellent
Lady
,
Your
mercy
hath
set
a
Period
to
your
complaints
against
the
Bawd
:
and
in
that
is
my
joy
:
but
you
will
not
give
entertainment
to
my
disesteemed
love
,
and
in
that
is
my
torment
.
For
although
you
are
beleagred
with
a
multiplicitie
of
loves
,
yet
none
of
them
dare
stand
forth
to
parallell
mine
.
Yet
will
not
you
beleeve
this
,
which
infidelitie
ariseth
from
your
severe
refusall
of
conference
;
but
were
that
permitted
,
it
would
beget
faith
in
you
and
rectifie
your
opinion
of
my
worth
I
could
wish
to
bee
unmand
into
a
bird
,
or
rather
(
if
wishes
were
effectuall
)
to
bee
transformed
into
a
Flea
,
and
so
not
to
bee
excluded
by
the
narrowest
crevis
.
But
(
deare
Lucretia
)
Why
say
you
,
you
will
not
speake
with
him
,
whose
All
is
yours
,
and
whose
profession
it
is
to
bee
such
a
servant
as
shall
anticipate
your
injunctions
by
his
obedience
?
O
forget
that
same
word
I
will
not
:
and
carry
not
death
in
your
mouth
,
and
life
in
your
lookes
.
Let
not
that
sentence
bee
irrevocable
,
which
pronounced
that
to
love
you
was
but
to
abuse
my selfe
and
my
time
.
Abandon
this
crueltie
,
and
●urne
your
stile
,
or
conclude
to
bee
my
murderer
:
for
be
confident
that
to
mee
your
breath
is
more
inevitably
mortall
,
than
anothers
weapon
.
Love
is
the
totall
of
my
desires
;
but
say
,
you
love
,
and
make
mee
really
happie
.
How
that
meane
present
stands
in
your
esteeme
,
I
dispute
not
,
seeing
your
acceptance
hath
set
a
price
upon
it
above
its
first
value
.
Your
Ring
shall
never
from
my
finger
,
which
supplies
the
place
of
your
lips
,
and
is
kist
for
them
.
Farewell
my
delight
,
and
doe
not
envie
me
those
joyes
,
which
you
may
conferre
upon
mee
with
such
facilitie
:
Having
thus
often
bandied
one
to
another
,
at
last
Lucretia
tooke
a
paper
,
in
which
shee
drew
the
counterfeit
of
her
minde
with
these
lines
.
Eurialus
,
I
could
willingly
entitle
you
to
what
I
am
,
for
your
worth
doth
challenge
love
,
and
your
gallant
qualities
command
it
.
I
speake
not
how
I
am
surprizd
with
your
beautie
,
and
extasied
with
your
face
so
full
of
Loves
,
and
Cupids
:
Yet
I
dare
not
love
,
for
were
I
once
enterd
into
those
amorous
lists
I
should
observe
neither
measure
nor
meane
:
you
cannot
be
here
long
,
and
I
,
if
I
once
come
into
play
,
must
alway
be
in
action
.
The
examples
of
those
so
many
,
forsaken
by
forreine
loves
,
are
my
so
many
advertisements
not
to
prosecute
your
love
.
Iason
treacherously
cosened
Medea
,
by
whose
alone
assistance
hee
finished
the
adventure
of
the
golden
Fleece
:
And
Theseus
whom
Ariadne
did
extricate
out
of
the
fatall
Labyrinth
,
ignobly
left
that
distressed
Lady
in
an
unhabited
Iland
,
the
worse
Labyrinth
of
the
two
.
I
know
what
an
inconveniencie
it
is
to
imbrace
a
strangers
love
,
and
untill
I
shall
bee
of
the
forlorne
hope
will
not
engage
my selfe
in
so
certaine
a
danger
:
you
men
are
of
a
spirit
more
confirmed
,
and
have
a
greater
command
over
your
passions
:
but
poore
impotent
women
!
if
they
once
take
this
fit
of
raging
,
nothing
but
death
can
bee
Physicke
to
their
phrensie
:
They
are
rather
out
of
themselves
than
in
love
,
and
if
they
meete
not
a
correspondent
returne
of
affection
,
nothing
so
dreadfull
as
a
woman
in
that
furie
:
when
this
fire
hath
once
insinuated
,
we
respect
neither
fame
,
nor
fate
,
and
must
either
enjoy
our
love
,
or
not
live
.
The
greatnesse
of
the
want
of
what
wee
would
have
,
addes
degrees
to
the
greatnesse
of
our
desires
:
and
wee
expose
our
brests
to
the
menaces
of
destruction
,
so
wee
may
sate
the
impatient
longings
of
our
appetites
.
But
I
,
who
am
as
nobly
married
,
as
I
was
nobly
descended
,
have
decreede
with
my selfe
to
barricado
all
passages
,
and
make
good
the
place
against
the
forcible
entrie
of
love
:
and
of
yours
in
chiefe
,
who
being
a
stranger
may
give
mee
as
unworthy
a
farewell
,
as
Demophoon
did
to
the
unfortunate
Phyllis
.
Bee
therefore
over
intreated
not
to
sollicite
my
love
,
and
to
cancell
your
owne
,
and
if
you
doe
love
,
make
demonstration
of
that
truth
in
desisting
from
a
suit
which
inferres
my
ruine
,
as
it
's
necessary
consequent
.
Farewell
.
Eurialus
not
cool'd
but
heate
with
these
Letters
called
for
a
Pen
,
and
contrived
this
answer
.
All
happinesse
to
my
life
Lucretia
;
you
have
restored
mee
to
Health
with
the
Dose
of
your
Letter
;
yet
was
it
not
all
Cordiall
,
but
blended
with
some
gall
,
which
I
hope
shall
be
no
ingredient
in
the
next
.
I
read
it
often
,
and
kist
it
oftner
:
but
it
seemes
to
intimate
something
contrary
to
your
former
overtures
.
It
counsaime
not
to
love
,
because
it
is
not
expedient
for
you
to
doe
so
,
and
this
you
would
evince
by
the
instances
of
some
Ladies
who
have
beene
betrayed
by
strangers
;
which
you
have
done
with
such
Rhetorick
that
you
rather
teach
me
to
admire
than
to
forget
you
;
whilst
you
command
me
not
to
love
you
with
eloquence
,
which
commands
mee
to
love
you
.
The
more
I
reade
the
more
my
flames
advanced
to
see
that
delicate
conjunction
of
wit
,
and
beautie
.
To
bid
me
not
love
is
to
bid
a
streame
recoile
into
its
first
head
,
and
to
command
a
mountaine
to
humble
it selfe
to
a
vallie
.
If
Scythia
can
bee
without
Snow
,
or
Heaven
without
motion
;
then
can
Eurialus
bee
,
and
his
love
not
bee
.
It
is
not
so
easie
for
men
to
rake
up
their
flames
as
you
imagine
,
for
what
you
ascribe
to
our
sex
,
many
have
imputed
to
yours
.
But
I
shall
not
reply
upon
you
,
rather
answer
to
your
induction
,
which
from
the
treacherie
of
some
few
strangers
would
definitively
conclude
mee
false
.
You
have
musterd
up
some
few
authorities
,
but
I
could
give
you
a
Catalogue
of
more
forlorne
soules
,
who
have
beene
deserted
and
ruind
by
Ladies
.
Trotlus
deluded
by
Chryseis
,
Deiphobus
undone
by
Hetena
.
Ana
Circe
with
her
charmes
,
her
lovers
suits
,
In
skins
of
Swine
,
and
hides
of
other
bruites
.
But
it
is
bad
Logicke
to
conclude
universally
from
particular
premisses
:
and
if
for
the
falsehood
of
two
or
three
men
you
shall
unjustly
quarrell
all
mankinde
,
by
as
good
a
consequence
,
for
the
perjuries
of
as
few
women
,
may
I
bid
defiance
to
the
whole
sex
.
Some
others
love
may
supply
us
with
a
better
coppie
after
which
to
write
our
owne
:
That
of
Antonie
and
Cleopatra
was
a
love
contracted
betweene
strangers
,
and
yet
inviolable
.
How
many
of
the
Graecians
at
Troy
were
taken
by
those
Ladies
whom
they
had
taken
,
and
so
powerfully
deteined
by
those
forreine
loves
,
that
by
a
miraculous
kind
of
oblivion
,
they
did
forget
their
countrey
,
before
they
could
forget
their
Mistresses
.
Deare
Lucretia
let
these
be
your
precedents
,
seeing
he
that
now
sueth
for
you
will
ever
love
,
and
ever
be
yours
.
Nor
call
mee
a
stranger
,
for
I
am
Citizen
of
this
place
,
by
a
better
title
than
a
Native
:
for
hee
was
made
one
by
his
fortune
,
but
I
by
my
choise
.
No
countrey
shall
bee
mine
,
but
where
you
are
,
for
your
presence
can
make
mee
a
free
Denison
of
any
place
.
When
I
goe
from
hence
,
my
returne
shall
be
speedy
,
for
my
journey
into
Germany
is
but
to
settle
my
estate
that
my
stay
with
you
may
bee
the
longer
.
I
shall
casily
finde
pretenses
to
reside
here
,
for
Caesar
hath
many
affaires
of
state
in
these
parts
,
and
I
shall
so
prevaile
with
him
,
that
their
dispatch
may
bee
commended
to
my
care
:
sometimes
I
will
bee
here
in
some
Embassage
,
sometimes
upon
some
other
imployment
:
befides
he
must
have
a
deputie
in
Thuscanie
,
and
I
dare
give
my selfe
the
promise
of
that
charge
.
Therefore
doubt
not
sweet
Lucretia
,
the
rather
because
you
and
my
heart
are
convertible
,
and
if
I
can
be
without
one
,
I
can
bee
without
the
other
.
At
last
therefore
extend
your
pitty
to
one
,
Who
like
Snow
dissolves
away
Exposed
to
the
sunny
ray
.
Take
my
languishment
into
your
noble
consideration
,
and
at
last
set
a
happie
period
to
my
miserie
.
Looke
upon
my
pale
and
extenuated
body
,
and
wonder
that
my
soule
remooves
not
out
of
so
ruinous
a
habitation
.
Had
I
killed
your
father
,
your
ingenious
crueltie
could
not
invent
more
exquisite
torments
.
Ah
my
Lucretia
,
how
severe
would
you
be
against
the
prophane
contemners
of
your
beautie
,
who
thus
trample
upon
your
prostrate
votaries
.
No
longer
continue
my
sufferings
,
but
receive
me
into
your
grace
,
that
I
may
be
,
and
in
that
happy
,
the
servant
of
Lucretia
.
Farewell
.
As
a
Tower
which
broken
within
seemeth
outwardly
impregnable
,
suddainly
falleth
with
the
batterie
of
the
Ram
,
so
did
Lucretia
fall
at
this
assault
.
And
confident
of
his
loyall
integritie
,
shee
reveal'd
her
dissembled
love
,
and
unmask'd
her selfe
in
this
Letter
.
Eurialus
,
I
can
no
longer
make
good
the
place
against
you
,
nor
any
longer
deny
you
a
place
in
the
brest
of
Lucretia
.
You
have
won
the
field
,
and
I
am
yours
.
I
have
made
my selfe
obnoxious
to
too
many
dangers
,
if
I
bee
not
secured
by
your
providence
,
and
fidelitie
.
Faithfully
observe
what
you
have
written
,
for
I
come
now
to
give
you
livery
,
and
seisin
of
my
love
,
and
if
you
shall
ever
surrender
this
possession
you
are
a
villaine
,
and
a
Traitour
.
It
is
an
easie
thing
to
over-reach
a
poore
Gentlewoman
,
but
the
facilitie
of
the
fact
addes
to
the
foulenesse
of
it
.
As
yet
there
is
no
hurt
,
and
if
you
thinke
me
worthy
of
a
desertion
let
me
know
so
much
before
my
flame
bee
enraged
by
the
addition
of
a
new
violence
:
and
let
us
not
at
all
beginne
that
which
must
bee
concluded
with
repentance
.
In
all
actions
the
end
is
principally
attended
by
the
agent
:
I
have
but
little
foresight
the
true
character
of
my
sex
:
but
you
are
a
man
,
and
assuming
to
your selfe
a
double
charge
,
must
bee
a
guardian
to
us
both
.
I
present
you
with
the
dedication
of
my selfe
,
and
honour
your
faith
,
to
whose
bosome
I
have
let
my
love
for
terme
of
life
,
and
not
as
tenant
at
will
.
Farewell
guide
of
my
life
,
and
starre
of
my
course
.
After
this
,
many
ejaculations
passed
betweene
them
,
and
never
did
Eurialus
write
so
ardently
,
but
Lucretia
answered
with
an
ardencie
as
equall
.
There
was
nothing
wanting
now
but
conveniencie
of
meeting
,
which
seemed
to
be
joyn'd
with
a
kind
of
impossibilitie
,
the
Lady
being
guarded
with
the
observation
of
so
many
eyes
.
Argus
kept
not
a
stricter
watch
over
the
Heifer
at
the
command
of
the
jealous
goddes
,
than
Menelaus
had
set
over
Lucretia
.
It
is
the
nationall
sinne
of
Italy
to
immure
and
locke
up
their
wives
as
they
doe
their
mony
,
which
wife
men
have
thought
to
bee
none
of
the
best
pollicies
.
For
women
doe
most
violently
long
after
forbidden
fruits
:
what
you
will
,
they
reject
,
and
your
severest
prohibitions
are
their
hottest
pursuits
:
had
they
but
the
reines
in
their
neck
,
they
would
not
trip
so
often
:
If
a
woman
be
not
chast
out
of
her
owne
free
and
noble
inclination
,
bolts
,
and
keepers
are
but
impertinent
vanities
.
For
who
is
't
,
can
those
keepers
keepe
,
for
them
Finely
to
win
,
is
her
first
stratagem
.
Lucretia
had
a
brother
,
who
was
of
her
counsell
,
and
the
faithfull
Mercurie
betweene
her selfe
and
Eurialus
.
Hee
is
entrusted
with
all
privacy
to
receive
Eurialus
into
the
house
,
which
hee
might
doe
,
for
he
lived
with
Lucretias
mother
,
whom
Lucretia
did
often
visit
.
The
plot
was
this
;
That
,
Eurialus
being
shut
up
in
some
closet
,
after
the
old
Lady
was
gone
to
her
devotions
,
Lucretia
should
come
in
to
Eurialus
,
colouring
her
love
with
the
pretext
of
a
dutifull
visit
.
The
terme
of
two
dayes
was
the
time
prefixed
for
this
amorous
designe
,
which
were
as
so
many
yeares
to
the
longing
couple
:
for
although
to
men
in
feare
time
hath
a
winged
heele
;
yet
to
men
in
hope
it
walkes
with
leaden
sockes
.
But
fortune
shined
not
upon
the
desires
of
the
Lovers
,
for
Lucretias
mother
had
smelt
out
the
conspiracie
,
and
upon
the
day
assigned
,
she
went
from
home
,
but
lockt
out
her
sonne
in
law
,
who
presently
carried
the
sad
newes
to
Eurialus
,
which
was
no
lesse
grievous
to
Lucretia
:
who
seeing
that
the
plot
was
detected
,
well
said
shee
,
since
I
cannot
arrive
at
my
wished
Port
by
this
passage
,
I
will
attempt
a
new
one
,
nor
shall
my
mother
glory
,
that
shee
could
stop
the
eddie
of
my
impetuous
affections
.
There
was
one
Pandalus
,
a
Gentleman
allied
to
her
husband
,
him
shee
called
to
the
Table
,
and
made
of
her
counsell
,
for
her
minde
once
enfired
was
uncapable
of
rest
.
She
signified
to
Eurialus
by
letter
that
hee
might
confidently
impart
his
counsells
to
him
,
as
a
man
of
experienced
fidelitie
,
and
the
fittest
instrument
to
contrive
their
meetings
.
But
Eurialus
,
who
had
observed
this
Pandalus
never
to
be
from
Menelaus
his
side
,
doubted
his
honestie
,
and
suspected
some
treason
.
While
he
is
in
this
demurre
,
hee
is
dispatched
away
to
Rome
to
treat
with
his
Holinesse
about
the
Coronation
of
Sigismund
:
which
cast
both
the
lovers
into
an
Agonie
,
but
Casars
authoritie
must
be
obeyed
.
For
the
space
of
two
moneths
(
for
so
long
he
was
absent
)
Lucretia
confined
herselfe
to
her
Chamber
,
and
put
on
mourning
weeds
,
as
if
he
had
beene
departed
the
world
,
who
was
but
departed
Thuscanie
.
All
wonderd
,
but
none
knew
the
cause
of
it
,
which
indeede
was
the
reason
why
they
wonderd
,
for
ignorance
is
the
cause
of
admiration
.
The
whole
family
thought
it self
in
darkenes
as
if
the
Sunne
had
bin
eclipsed
,
for
the
light
of
her
beautie
was
commonly
overcast
with
her
curtaines
,
and
the
light
of
her
smiles
was
never
seene
.
In
this
state
shee
continued
,
till
shee
heard
newes
of
Eurialus
his
returne
,
and
that
Caesar
was
gone
to
meete
him
.
Then
as
if
awaked
out
of
sleepe
,
shee
stripped
off
her
mourning
apparell
,
and
resuming
her
former
dresse
she
,
opened
the
window
,
and
joyously
expected
him
.
So
soone
as
Caesar
saw
her
,
O
(
said
he
)
Eurialus
no
longer
deny
a
truth
so
evident
;
this
Sun
was
set
,
while
you
were
gone
,
but
you
have
brought
us
the
morning
,
and
the
Sunne
is
againe
risen
.
Love
hath
no
boundures
,
and
it
can
bee
concealed
no
morethan
the
Cough
.
It
is
your
pleasure
Sr.
(
said
Eurialus
)
to
bee
merry
,
and
to
amaze
mee
with
riddles
.
Perchance
the
noyse
,
and
neighing
of
the
Horses
brought
her
to
the
window
:
with
that
he
stole
a
looke
,
and
constellated
his
eyes
with
hers
:
and
this
was
their
first
parley
,
but
a
silent
one
.
Not
many
dayes
were
passed
,
before
Nisus
(
a
trustie
servant
to
Eurialus
,
and
a
great
favourer
of
the
cause
)
had
spied
out
a
Victuling
house
,
which
being
situated
on
the
backe
side
of
Menelaus
his
Pallace
,
had
the
prospect
of
Lucretias
Chamber
.
Hee
quickly
had
won
the
Victuler
to
secrecie
,
and
then
brought
his
master
thither
,
where
hee
sate
privately
expecting
when
fortune
would
present
herselfe
to
his
sight
,
nor
was
his
expectation
deceived
:
for
at
last
shee
appeared
;
and
Eurialus
no
sooner
saw
her
,
but
(
said
he
)
how
faires
the
governesse
of
my
life
,
turne
thy
aspect
hither
,
and
make
me
happie
with
its
influence
.
Art
thou
there
my
deare
Eurialus
(
said
Lucretia
)
I
have
now
the
happinesse
to
heare
thee
speake
,
but
this
accursed
distance
envieth
me
the
happinesse
of
thy
embraces
.
A
Ladder
(
said
Eurialus
)
shall
remove
that
difficultie
,
doe
you
but
make
fast
your
Chamber
doore
,
for
wee
have
too
long
procrastinated
our
joyes
.
O
my
Eurialus
said
shee
,
if
you
tender
my
safetie
be
more
circumspect
;
here
is
a
very
suspicious
window
,
and
a
worse
neighbour
;
as
for
that
Victuler
,
a
little
mony
will
purchase
him
to
betray
us
both
:
we
will
walke
in
a
securer
tract
,
and
for
the
present
acquiet
our selves
,
that
wee
have
had
this
libertie
of
conference
.
After
they
had
drawne
out
their
discourse
to
some
length
,
and
by
a
reede
mutually
enterchanged
favours
,
they
sadly
tooke
their
leaves
,
Sosias
having
now
sounded
their
purposes
,
in
vaine
(
said
he
to
himselfe
)
doe
I
oppose
their
attempts
;
if
I
doe
not
intervene
with
some
devise
,
my
Lady
will
be
ruined
,
and
my
Mistresse
defamed
.
Of
these
mischiefes
it
shall
be
my
province
to
avert
one
.
Let
my
Mistresse
love
;
if
her
love
bee
secret
it
cannot
but
bee
secure
.
But
her
passion
hath
blinded
her
,
and
put
out
her
providence
.
If
therefore
wee
cannot
bridle
that
,
wee
will
labour
to
muzzle
report
,
and
keepe
the
house
inviolate
from
the
aspersions
ofinfamie
.
I
have
hitherto
resisted
the
commission
of
this
unlawfull
act
,
but
since
I
can
make
head
no
longer
,
it
shall
now
be
my
last
care
,
that
,
that
bee
secretly
done
,
which
I
see
will
be
done
.
For
it
little
differs
,
eyther
not
to
doe
,
or
so
to
doe
,
that
no
man
knowes
the
doing
.
Sensualitie
is
generally
implanted
in
all
,
nor
is
hee
a
man
whom
this
fury
doth
not
haunt
,
and
he
is
most
chast
,
that
is
most
cautious
.
Whilst
hee
thus
reasons
with
himselfe
,
Lucretia
came
out
of
her
chamber
,
to
whom
having
addressed
himselfe
,
hee
humbly
demanded
the
reason
,
why
shee
thought
his
bosome
a
casket
too
unworthy
for
her
secrets
of
love
?
I
know
said
he
you
love
Eurialus
,
and
without
my
privitie
would
love
him
,
but
bee
circumspect
whom
you
make
a
sharer
in
your
counsels
,
for
you
are
a
servant
to
him
,
who
is
the
master
of
your
secret
.
The
first
degree
of
wisedome
is
not
at
all
to
love
:
The
second
to
love
closely
,
and
to
blind
the
world
,
as
your
passion
hath
blinded
you
.
This
you
cannot
doe
alone
without
the
assistance
of
a
third
:
my
heart
hath
beene
prooved
true
to
you
by
the
Test
of
time
,
and
the
Index
of
a
long
experience
.
If
you
shall
please
to
encharge
me
with
any
thing
,
command
with
all
assurance
:
it
shall
bee
my
studie
that
your
love
bee
not
unmasked
,
and
your selfe
exposed
to
punishment
,
and
your
husband
to
obloquie
,
and
scorne
.
Honest
Sosias
(
replied
Lucretia
)
I
confesse
this
truth
,
and
confidently
repose
my
trust
in
you
,
presuming
that
my
affiance
will
oblige
your
fidelitie
,
but
you
were
me
thought
,
somewhat
cold
in
seconding
my
desires
,
or
rather
hot
in
opposing
them
,
yet
since
I
see
you
undertake
my
cause
as
a
voluntary
,
I
shall
entertaine
your
service
,
nor
suspect
any
treachery
,
an
improvident
act
of
many
who
have
taught
others
to
deceive
them
by
seeming
fearefull
to
be
deceived
.
You
know
,
that
I
burne
extreamely
,
and
therefore
cannot
burne
long
,
for
the
violence
of
a
motion
is
an
enemie
to
its
continuance
.
Eurialus
languisheth
for
love
,
and
I
dye
:
and
to
oppose
our
Passions
is
to
advance
them
.
One
meeting
would
rebate
our
edge
,
and
rectifie
our
loves
to
a
moderation
.
Goe
therefore
to
Eurialus
and
informe
him
that
the
povertie
of
our
fortune
will
afford
us
but
one
way
of
accesse
,
if
foure
dayes
hence
,
when
our
Peasants
bring
the
Corne
home
,
he
will
humble
himselfe
into
the
habit
of
a
Porter
:
the
gods
are
his
precedents
who
have
masked
under
more
inglorious
disguises
.
Thus
dissembling
his
person
,
and
our
purpose
under
a
Frocke
let
him
carrie
Wheate
into
the
Granarie
.
Give
him
a
punctuall
situation
of
my
Chamber
,
where
I
shall
attend
him
at
the
day
prefixed
:
and
when
courteous
opportunitie
shall
leave
him
alone
,
let
him
enter
my
lodging
,
where
I
will
be
found
with
no
more
companie
than
himselfe
brings
with
him
:
Sosias
although
sensible
of
the
danger
,
yet
apprehensive
of
a
greater
imbarkes
for
the
action
:
and
finding
Eurialus
,
he
delivers
him
those
instructions
hee
had
in
commission
from
his
Lady
,
which
although
in
themselves
very
weightie
,
yet
they
seemed
light
in
the
seale
of
his
estimation
:
hee
hugges
the
attempt
,
and
addresses
himselfe
to
the
adventure
,
and
complaines
of
nothing
but
those
same
foure
ages
,
which
Sosias
had
cald
by
the
name
of
foure
dayes
.
So
insensate
is
the
brest
of
an
Inamorato
,
and
so
desperatly
is
the
eye
of
his
judgement
seeld
up
,
that
his
heart
takes
no
impression
from
the
justest
cause
of
terrour
,
and
the
apprehension
of
a
danger
was
never
there
.
His
Optickes
are
so
irregular
,
that
all
objects
lose
the
truth
of
what
they
are
,
their
Ideas
being
defaced
by
his
abused
imagination
.
What
is
most
inaccessible
presenteth
a
smooth
surface
in
a
lovers
Glasse
,
and
the
greatnesse
of
any
undertaking
is
lessen'd
in
his
perspective
.
The
anxious
watches
of
a
jealous
husband
,
are
in
his
valuation
as
vaine
as
his
dreames
,
which
proceedes
from
the
want
of
feare
,
which
was
never
one
of
Cupids
retinue
,
and
contempt
of
love
,
which
in
his
judgement
is
but
a
Goblin
to
awe
simplicity
.
Such
an
invincible
Rascall
is
that
same
blinde
Lad
,
that
he
can
Cow
the
bravest
spirit
beneath
the
lowest
servitude
.
Eurialus
high
in
the
favour
of
his
Prince
,
and
Fortune
,
but
so
high
in
the
impregnable
tower
of
his
owne
judgement
,
that
it
is
not
imaginable
that
hee
should
finke
to
an
humility
so
base
:
yet
this
Eurialus
exchanged
Scarlet
with
Sackcloath
,
and
hee
that
grew
up
in
the
delicacie
of
all
softnesse
,
did
now
harden
his
shoulders
to
the
patience
of
a
burden
.
Since
our
ownē
age
hath
enabled
us
to
give
evidence
of
a
transformation
so
prodigious
,
wee
will
not
dispute
the
realitie
of
those
famous
metamorphoses
,
which
were
transmitted
to
posteritie
by
the
most
delicate
of
the
Romane
wits
:
for
although
those
changes
were
not
naturall
by
the
assumption
of
shapes
,
yet
they
were
morall
by
the
harmony
of
Conditions
:
so
that
where
the
nobler
operations
of
the
discursive
parts
are
drowned
in
a
Lethargie
of
sensualtie
,
you
must
looke
for
such
a
creature
in
the
History
of
Beasts
;
for
the
inquirie
would
be
ridiculous
,
should
you
search
in
the
definition
of
man
.
The
morning
did
now
leave
old
Tithons
bed
,
to
doe
a
courtesie
to
a
yonger
lover
:
and
the
Sun
rendring
all
things
in
their
colours
,
could
not
but
give
Eurialus
a
fresh
one
;
who
by
his
owne
sentence
then
pronounced
himselfe
happie
(
such
corrupt
judges
are
wee
of
felicitie
)
when
a
childe
new
come
from
the
Arch
of
his
Cradle
,
would
have
doomed
him
miserable
:
when
hee
was
mingled
with
the
contemptible
croud
of
Porters
:
where
hee
accounted
that
his
glory
,
which
is
the
opposite
to
glory
,
to
lie
obscur'd
and
unknowne
.
Thus
our
gallant
Porter
jogges
on
to
the
house
,
where
hee
learnedly
filleth
his
sacke
,
and
having
emptied
it
in
the
Granarie
,
as
being
puney
in
this
fraternitie
,
came
last
downe
.
In
his
way
(
as
his
instructions
taught
him
)
he
gently
opened
her
chamber
doore
,
of
which
,
by
the
description
of
Sosias
,
hee
had
a
Mathematicall
knowledge
:
which
hee
as
suddenly
shut
,
as
hee
had
entred
privily
;
there
hee
findes
Lucretia
alone
busie
with
a
needle
,
in
expectation
of
other
imploiment
.
Advancing
neare
:
Thou
great
Tresurer
of
my
spirits
,
said
he
,
which
art
president
of
my
life
,
and
hopes
;
I
have
now
found
thee
aloncout
of
the
danger
of
any
House
informers
,
and
shall
be
initiated
in
thy
chast
embraces
,
which
hath
beene
the
summarie
of
my
desires
.
No
interposed
wall
can
now
eclipse
thy
beauties
,
nor
the
tyranny
of
distance
any
longer
usurpe
upon
my
eyes
.
Lucretia
,
although
her selfe
the
Projectresse
was
astonished
at
the
first
encounter
,
imagining
that
shee
saw
some
spirit
,
and
not
Euralius
,
and
thinking
it
incredible
,
that
so
great
a
man
should
runne
so
great
an
hazzard
,
shee
stood
amazed
at
her
owne
workemanshippe
,
and
her
invention
almost
put
her
out
of
her
wits
.
But
Eurialus
was
a
very
good
womans
Doctor
,
and
with
some
kisses
well
applied
restored
her
to
her
senses
,
and
selfe
.
Poore
heart
,
said
shee
,
art
thou
hee
?
Art
thou
my
Euralius
?
And
having
her
cheekes
double
died
(
for
the
tincture
of
a
blush
was
added
to
their
Roses
)
shee
gave
him
such
an
embrace
,
as
if
shee
intended
an
union
of
soules
.
His
forehead
shee
sweetely
prest
with
her
lippes
,
and
intermingling
words
with
kisses
;
ah
,
said
shee
,
upon
what
a
doubtfull
cast
hast
thou
plaid
:
it
shall
be
to
mee
an
indubiat
argument
of
thy
loyaltie
,
and
I
were
Infidell
,
should
I
require
a
second
demonstration
.
Thou
hast
made
an
undeceiveable
experiment
of
thy
love
,
and
my
faith
,
shall
bee
found
a
prize
worthy
the
adventure
,
Fate
prosper
what
we
have
designd
,
And
fan
us
with
auspicious
winde
.
While
I
live
,
not
any
man
but
thy selfe
,
shall
by
the
least
colour
entitle
himselfe
to
mee
:
no
,
not
my
husband
,
if
hee
may
boast
that
name
,
who
never
had
my
heart
,
and
my
hand
onely
which
was
forced
,
and
therefore
not
obligatorie
.
Come
on
thou
extract
of
my
delight
,
and
pleasures
,
cast
off
this
Frocke
,
and
let
me
see
thee
as
thou
art
,
not
personating
another
in
a
disguise
.
Put
off
the
Porter
,
and
put
on
Eurialus
.
Then
uncasing
himselfe
of
those
fordid
weedes
,
he
appeard
in
the
lustre
of
an
unclouded
Sunne
,
and
by
the
forwardnesse
of
his
defires
,
as
well
as
the
bravery
of
his
apparrell
,
he
spake
himselfe
to
bee
what
shee
expected
.
But
now
Sosias
who
stood
sentre
knocked
at
the
doore
,
and
warned
the
gentle
lovers
to
provide
for
their
safetie
;
for
Menelaus
,
in
great
hast
was
comming
for
something
in
that
Chamber
.
You
must
said
hee
play
the
jugler
to
cast
a
mist
before
his
eyes
,
and
gull
him
with
some
fallacie
.
Said
Lucretia
suddainly
,
by
that
bed
there
is
a
blind
Closset
,
in
which
are
all
my
lewells
of
price
,
of
which
I
value
you
to
be
the
richest
,
and
will
put
you
up
in
the
same
Cabinet
.
You
may
remember
what
I
have
writ
to
you
,
if
wee
should
be
at
any
time
faire
to
bee
taken
by
my
husband
,
Dammage
faisant
,
Goe
in
boldly
,
the
darkenesse
will
be
your
securitie
:
so
that
you
neither
move
,
nor
spit
.
Eurialus
was
in
some
doubt
what
to
doe
,
but
finding
that
time
could
spare
no
place
for
consultation
,
hee
resolved
upon
execution
,
and
concluded
to
take
her
advise
:
with
that
shee
opened
the
doore
,
and
returned
to
her
needle
.
Menelaus
and
Betus
with
him
are
now
entred
to
search
for
some
records
appertaining
to
the
State
:
but
not
finding
them
in
any
of
the
Deskes
,
they
are
without
question
said
Menelaus
in
that
Closset
,
and
command
Lucretia
to
bring
a
light
to
looke
there
.
Eurialus
terrified
at
the
word
,
his
blood
discomfited
in
his
face
made
a
retreat
to
his
heart
.
And
now
beginning
to
hate
Lucretia
,
he
severely
declaimed
against
his
owne
lightnesse
,
the
alone
cause
of
his
present
captivitie
.
I
shall
now
,
said
hee
,
be
publickly
traduced
:
the
losse
of
my
Princes
favour
is
inevitable
,
and
that
of
my
life
is
too
faire
a
possibilitie
.
What
power
created
,
or
can
safetie
herselfe
rescue
me
from
destruction
?
O
the
simplest
of
what
ever
was
called
man
,
who
have
made
my
owne
ruine
my
Option
.
At
what
intollerable
rates
are
these
pleasures
of
love
sold
,
for
the
buyer
is
often
the
price
of
his
own
ware
?
Yet
for
loves
cause
,
which
like
smoake
,
then
vanisheth
when
it
is
at
the
highest
,
we
will
skrue
our selves
into
the
most
inextricable
streights
.
I
am
my selfe
an
example
of
this
sad
Truth
,
for
humane
reason
cannot
furnish
me
with
so
much
thread
,
as
will
cleare
me
of
this
Labyrinth
.
If
pittying
fate
would
send
mee
a
gracious
Liberate
,
love
should
never
make
mee
another
Mittimus
.
Kind
Heavens
redeeme
me
hence
,
and
dispense
with
this
youthfull
errour
:
doe
not
severely
measure
my
ignorances
in
all
their
dimensions
,
but
reserve
me
till
repentance
hath
made
an
atonement
for
my
delinquencies
;
for
it
wil
be
your
greater
glory
that
I
live
a
monument
of
your
mercie
,
than
die
a
sacrifice
to
your
justice
.
It
was
Lucretias
purpose
not
to
love
,
but
to
betray
,
and
to
bring
mee
like
a
poore
Hart
into
the
Toile
.
This
day
is
the
period
of
my
life
if
the
date
bee
not
extended
by
the
power
of
an
omnipotent
hand
.
I
have
often
heard
of
the
impostures
of
women
,
&
never
had
the
wit
to
decline
them
,
but
if
I
come
off
now
,
I
will
bid
defiance
to
all
their
future
stratagems
.
Lucretia
her self
was
in
as
great
an
agonie
,
distracted
with
a
double
feare
,
both
for
her
lovers
safetie
,
and
her
owne
.
But
as
it
happens
in
unexpected
occurrences
,
the
conceit
of
a
woman
,
is
more
present
than
that
of
a
man
(
the
suddennesse
of
the
danger
setting
an
edge
upon
her
wit
)
shee
had
instantly
contrived
a
remedy
.
Husband
,
said
shee
,
there
is
a
box
in
the
window
,
where
I
remember
you
used
to
put
some
of
your
records
,
let
us
see
if
these
you
now
looke
for
bee
not
there
:
and
with
that
running
hastily
to
the
Box
with
a
pretense
to
open
it
,
shee
thrust
it
out
at
the
window
with
such
art
,
that
they
supposed
,
it
had
been
by
chance
,
and
not
her
intention
.
O
husband
,
said
shee
,
haste
that
we
suffer
not
:
the
Box
is
fallen
downe
,
make
all
speede
least
either
Iewels
,
or
writings
be
lost
:
for
Heavens
sake
get
you
downe
,
and
in
the
interim
I
shall
watch
that
nothing
be
stollen
.
See
the
boldnesse
of
the
woman
;
the
best
eye
hath
beene
deluded
by
their
false
apparitions
.
Hee
onely
was
never
deceived
,
whom
his
wife
never
attempted
to
deceive
:
but
hee
that
hath
escaped
,
and
yet
hath
beene
layd
at
,
let
him
ascribe
his
felicitie
to
his
Stars
,
and
not
to
his
Providence
.
Menelaus
and
Betus
mooved
with
this
accident
so
much
concerning
them
,
run
speedily
downe
into
the
streete
.
The
house
being
built
high
after
the
Thuscan
manner
had
many
stares
to
bee
descended
,
which
favour'd
Eurialus
with
time
to
provide
for
his
better
securitie
:
who
by
the
counsell
of
Lucretia
tooke
a
new
covert
.
Having
now
gathered
up
the
Iewels
and
writings
but
not
finding
those
they
came
for
,
they
returned
to
search
those
Boxes
,
which
were
in
the
Closset
,
where
Eurialus
first
tooke
sanctuary
.
There
they
met
with
the
papers
,
and
having
taken
leave
of
Lucretia
they
departed
.
Then
did
she
open
the
doore
to
her
sweet
prisoner
,
and
invite
him
forth
with
the
delicate
compellations
of
,
Thou
living
sourse
of
my
delights
,
and
summarie
wherein
all
my
joyes
,
are
abbreviated
,
and
yet
not
lessend
by
the
contraction
:
wee
have
now
libertie
to
discharge
our
minds
by
conference
,
and
to
let
our selves
loose
to
the
freedome
of
uncontrol'd
embraces
.
Our
pleasure
will
be
more
endeard
,
and
fined
by
this
difficultie
of
the
beginning
,
which
though
the
perversnesse
of
fortune
would
have
nipped
,
and
blasted
,
yet
some
favourable
power
,
unwilling
to
see
so
loyall
a
paire
abandon'd
to
destruction
,
kept
life
in
our
love
by
a
gentler
Influence
.
Here
is
now
neither
place
nor
cause
for
feare
,
let
mee
therefore
embrace
thee
,
thou
armefull
of
Roses
,
and
Lillies
:
why
dost
thoustand
?
Why
dost
thou
doubt
?
I
am
thy
Lucretia
,
dost
thou
abhorre
her
touch
?
(
Eurialus
his
shaking
sit
having
scarse
left
him
)
mustred
up
his
spirits
,
and
in
his
armes
closely
entwined
his
Mistresse
:
never
,
said
he
,
was
I
arrested
with
so
terrible
an
expectation
of
death
.
But
the
greatnesse
of
worth
makes
the
sufferings
,
and
deservings
of
thy
servants
inferiour
to
the
acquist
:
and
if
things
beratable
to
their
valew
,
then
it
is
a
breach
of
commutative
justice
,
that
such
kisses
,
and
embraces
should
be
banished
away
Gratis
.
And
my selfe
(
for
ingenuity
will
speak
truth
)
have
bought
this
good
at
an
under
rate
,
having
paid
nothing
for
it
but
the
feare
of
danger
.
Could
I
so
dye
,
as
to
live
againe
,
and
enjoy
thee
:
a
thousand
times
would
I
dye
,
to
revive
and
enjoy
thee
a
thousand
times
.
O
the
felicity
that
I
am
estated
in
!
Doe
I
see
a
vision
,
or
is
my
joy
a
reall
one
?
Doe
I
indeed
embrace
thee
,
or
am
I
deluded
with
a
phantasme
?
No
surely
,
here
is
no
apparition
,
for
this
is
flesh
,
not
spirit
.
Lucretia
was
arrayed
in
a
vcty
thinne
Pall
,
which
did
fticke
to
her
so
close
,
and
without
wrinkle
,
that
it
rendred
her
brests
,
and
hippes
in
their
true
figure
,
and
dissembled
not
her
most
private
motions
.
Her
necke
was
purely
white
;
and
her
eyes
did
flame
strongly
:
but
to
say
white
like
the
snow
,
or
flaming
like
the
funne
,
were
to
dishonour
her
with
the
beggerlinesse
of
the
similitude
.
A
cheerefull
looke
,
a
lively
face
:
the
Lilly
,
and
Rose
are
but
the
obscure
types
and
shadowes
of
those
delicate
tinctures
laid
on
her
cheeke
by
the
pencill
of
Nature
.
Her
laughter
was
free
,
but
modest
,
her
brest
full
,
and
her
paps
like
two
Pomegranates
,
did
rise
up
on
either
fide
with
a
gentle
,
and
tempting
swelling
:
which
as
they
did
beate
,
gave
both
a
signall
,
and
a
challenge
to
the
encounter
,
Eurialus
his
continency
was
too
weake
,
any
longer
to
abide
the
Triall
:
and
the
poore
Gentleman
was
not
mortified
enough
to
combate
so
violent
a
temptation
:
but
having
already
left
his
feare
,
he
resolv'd
to
leave
his
modesty
too
,
and
so
boarding
the
Lady
,
Now
,
said
hee
,
let
us
make
our selves
one
,
in
each
others
reciprocall
fruition
,
she
(
resisted
,
it
seemes
it
is
an
old
fashion
)
telling
him
a
tale
of
the
great
care
forsooth
shee
had
of
her
reputation
,
&
that
she
imagined
that
his
love
would
be
limited
within
the
boundures
of
kisses
,
and
pretty
talking
.
At
that
Eurialus
smiling
assaulted
her
with
this
Dilemma
.
Either
it
is
knowne
,
said
he
,
that
I
am
here
,
or
not
:
ifit
bee
knowne
,
who
will
not
suspect
the
rest
?
and
it
will
bee
a
simple
thing
in
you
to
undergoe
such
an
imputation
,
and
doe
nothing
for
it
:
but
if
it
be
unknowne
,
then
this
likewise
shall
no
man
know
:
it
is
the
earnest
of
my
Love
,
and
to
want
it
,
is
to
dye
.
It
is
a
sinne
,
said
Lucretia
,
Nay
,
said
Eurialus
,
it
is
a
sinne
not
to
make
use
of
a
good
thing
,
when
you
may
.
To
refuse
this
occasion
so
freely
vouchsafed
by
your selfe
,
and
so
diligently
laboured
for
by
mee
,
were
to
slight
your
noble
favour
,
and
to
give
the
lye
to
my
owne
endeavours
.
And
with
that
taking
hold
of
her
wrist
,
hee
easily
overcame
her
,
who
did
but
prevacilate
in
her
resistance
,
and
fight
with
a
purpose
to
bee
overthrowne
.
Nor
did
the
fruition
of
her
bring
any
satiety
to
his
appetite
,
although
usually
such
desires
are
emptied
,
and
evaporated
in
the
enjoying
;
it
did
rather
adde
a
thirst
to
his
dropsie
.
But
Eurialus
having
an
eye
upon
his
danger
,
after
hee
had
refreshed
himselfe
with
a
banquet
tooke
leave
of
the
most
unwilling
Lucretia
:
from
whom
he
went
,
unsuspected
,
and
unobserved
,
being
onely
taken
for
what
hee
was
not
,
a
Porter
,
walking
homeward
,
hee
beginnes
to
wonder
at
himselfe
,
being
by
himselfe
almost
put
out
of
his
owne
knowledge
:
and
pensively
considers
,
what
the
event
might
bee
,
if
Caesar
should
meete
,
and
know
him
.
Into
what
a
jealousie
(
said
hee
to
himselfe
)
would
this
confused
habit
put
him
:
I
should
be
the
common
Table-talke
,
and
the
best
helpe
to
discourse
;
I
should
never
be
at
quiet
,
till
hee
had
extorted
from
mee
the
mystery
of
this
clownish
disguise
.
But
I
should
be
bold
to
acquaint
his
Highnesse
with
a
very
little
of
the
Truth
:
he
should
not
know
that
Menelaus
his
house
was
the
scene
,
and
that
I
personated
the
Porter
upon
that
stage
:
for
Caesar
is
privately
my
Rivall
,
and
it
would
prove
a
matter
of
dangerous
consequence
,
were
there
but
the
least
whisper
abroad
,
that
the
man
had
beene
in
the
saddle
,
before
the
Master
could
put
his
foote
in
the
stirrup
.
Lucretia
must
not
be
discovered
,
she
entertained
me
,
she
saved
me
:
and
my
silence
is
the
least
reward
I
can
pay
her
,
for
her
fidelity
.
While
hee
thus
talked
with
himselfe
,
he
espyed
Palinurus
,
and
his
trusty
Achates
;
but
was
at
home
before
they
could
discover
him
:
then
having
doft
his
frocke
,
he
told
them
all
the
passages
of
his
adventure
.
His
passions
had
so
strongly
continued
their
impressions
in
him
;
that
in
the
relation
of
his
feare
,
and
joy
,
hee
seemed
to
the
spectators
really
still
to
feare
,
and
really
still
to
joy
.
Foole
,
said
I
to
my selfe
,
to
consigne
my
safety
,
to
the
faith
of
a
woman
,
and
adventure
my
life
in
so
weake
a
vessell
,
whose
contrary
hath
beene
so
often
commanded
by
my
Father
,
that
to
have
perished
in
the
fact
,
had
been
the
merit
of
my
disobedience
.
He
would
discourse
to
me
of
their
inclinations
,
and
manners
,
in
so
hated
a
language
,
that
hee
offered
violence
to
my
eares
:
for
not
any
name
which
implyed
vice
,
but
with
him
was
an
Epithite
,
worthy
that
sexe
.
I
was
thus
taught
,
but
I
forgat
my
lesson
.
If
I
had
beene
knowne
by
any
man
,
sweating
under
my
burden
,
the
dishonour
would
have
been
traduced
to
my
posterity
;
and
it
would
seeme
an
abatement
in
my
Coat
,
when
my
Heire
should
be
told
that
his
Father
bore
a
sacke
in
his
Armes
.
I
had
beene
lost
to
Caesar
,
who
would
have
thought
my
Levity
fitter
for
a
Bedlam
,
than
a
Court
.
But
to
interpret
favourably
for
my selfe
,
admit
my
Master
had
passed
it
for
a
jest
;
what
if
her
husband
when
he
was
hunting
for
his
papers
,
had
started
me
?
The
Law
of
Italy
is
severe
enough
against
the
violaters
of
the
marriage
bed
,
but
the
griefe
of
a
wronged
husband
enlargeth
it selfe
to
a
vengeance
,
that
will
not
be
limited
,
nor
mitigated
by
Law
.
One
Husband
whips
th'
Adultrer
dead
,
Another
stabs
him
in
his
bed
.
But
suppose
hee
had
spared
my
life
,
hee
would
send
mee
to
the
Gaole
,
or
which
is
worse
,
to
Caesar
:
And
grant
that
I
had
delivered
my selfe
from
him
,
hee
being
disarmed
,
and
I
having
an
approved
sword
secretly
by
my
side
,
yet
there
were
others
with
him
,
and
the
roome
had
weapons
to
furnish
them
.
Besides
in
the
house
were
many
tall
fellowes
,
who
would
presently
have
shut
the
doores
,
and
then
tortured
me
with
such
an
extremity
,
as
would
have
extinguished
the
memory
of
the
persecutions
.
But
chance
,
not
cunning
,
redeemed
me
from
this
slaughter-house
.
Yet
why
should
I
call
that
chance
which
was
the
dexteritie
of
Lucretia's
wit
,
and
so
unjustly
robbe
her
the
honour
of
my
delivery
.
Singular
is
this
love
,
and
this
Lady
goes
alone
.
Deare
Lucretia
,
thy selfe
art
Argument
enough
to
confute
my
Fathers
invectives
,
and
to
vindicate
thy
whole
kinde
from
the
imputation
of
an
in
constancie
.
Why
should
I
doubt
then
to
lay
my
life
in
thy
faire
hands
,
and
dedicate
it
to
the
protection
of
so
pure
a
faith
.
Had
I
a
thousand
neckes
,
I
would
render
them
all
to
thy
custody
:
for
thy
vertues
are
fidelitie
and
circumspection
,
from
whence
a
prudence
is
derived
,
by
which
thou
know'st
how
to
love
,
and
how
to
save
thy
Lover
.
Invention
it selfe
could
not
have
contrived
a
neater
tricke
to
divert
those
importunate
searchers
:
whom
thou
didst
delude
with
so
much
Art
,
as
if
thou
hadst
bin
born
for
this
end
alone
to
be
recorded
the
Author
of
so
memorable
an
escape
.
Thou
wert
the
preserver
of
my
life
,
be
pleased
to
be
the
disposer
of
it
;
and
what
it
was
first
thy
favour
to
save
,
be
it
now
thy
Grace
to
accept
.
I
am
thy
creature
,
and
my
breath
is
from
thy
benevolence
,
which
in
thy
service
I
shall
be
as
ready
to
lose
,
as
thou
wert
ready
to
save
;
for
both
my
life
and
death
are
thy
Prerogative
.
I
am
ravished
with
the
speculation
of
the
peculiar
rarities
of
thy
wit
and
beautie
,
and
shall
my selfe
be
sicke
,
unlesse
I
give
them
another
visite
.
When
shall
I
make
the
second
impression
of
my
love
,
upon
thy
yeelding
lippes
,
and
with
my
fingers
make
so
many
dimples
upon
thy
tender
pappes
?
That
which
thou
hast
seene
Achates
,
is
not
enough
to
make
thee
truely
say
,
thou
sawest
her
.
There
be
degrees
of
activitie
in
her
lookes
,
for
at
a
distance
they
wound
,
and
at
hand
they
murder
.
Hadst
thou
beene
with
mee
,
thou
hadst
beene
strooke
with
a
more
confounding
sight
,
then
Tantalus
his
friend
,
when
that
Lydian
King
,
in
a
pretty
frollicke
,
shewed
him
his
wife
naked
:
And
had
I
power
,
my
faithfull
Achates
,
I
would
present
thee
with
the
like
spectacle
:
for
neither
can
I
with
all
the
flourish
of
Rhetoricke
give
you
the
description
of
her
features
:
nor
canst
thou
by
all
the
vigour
of
meditation
comprehend
the
plenitude
of
my
joyes
.
Congratulate
therefore
with
me
,
and
content
thy selfe
with
this
small
portion
of
knowledg
,
seeing
that
words
are
too
narrow
interpreters
to
expresse
her
many
graces
,
and
that
my
pleasure
had
something
in
it
more
copious
,
and
significant
than
language
.
Thus
Eurialus
talked
with
Achates
,
and
Lucretia
talked
as
much
with
her selfe
.
Yet
was
her
joy
lesse
for
want
of
a
partner
.
Griefe
,
indeed
a
passion
contracting
the
heart
,
is
lessoned
by
communication
,
because
it
is
a
motion
opposite
to
that
contraction
:
But
joy
,
a
Passion
distending
the
heart
,
is
augmented
by
communication
,
because
it
is
a
motion
concurring
with
that
distention
.
But
Eurialus
must
not
love
alone
;
for
to
love
Lucretia
,
and
to
love
without
a
Rivall
,
is
in
the
number
of
impossibles
:
it
being
a
fortune
attending
great
beauties
,
to
have
a
multitude
of
flies
to
court
their
flames
.
Baccarus
a
Knight
of
Hungary
,
a
man
both
noble
by
his
birth
,
and
by
his
nearenesse
to
Caesars
person
,
fell
extreamely
in
love
with
her
:
his
hope
perswaded
that
she
loved
him
by
an
argument
drawne
from
his
face
,
which
he
knew
lovely
:
but
his
feare
disswaded
the
contrary
,
by
an
argument
drawne
from
her
breast
,
which
hee
thought
chaste
.
Lucretia
,
after
the
manner
of
the
Thuscan
Ladyes
,
dispensed
the
smiles
of
her
browes
upon
the
Courtiers
,
with
so
fine
an
impartiality
,
that
while
none
of
them
saw
others
preferd
,
every
one
by
a
flattering
application
made
himselfe
the
man
.
It
is
an
Art
,
or
rather
a
tricke
which
our
Ladies
practise
whereby
to
dissemble
their
love
.
Baccarus
is
in
a
manner
dispossessed
of
the
state
of
his
Reason
,
and
no
counsell
can
reestablish
him
in
it
,
untill
he
hath
some
acquaintance
with
Lucretia's
minde
,
which
was
thus
attempted
.
The
Gentlewomen
of
Sienna
,
have
a
custome
to
visite
our
Ladies
Chappell
,
about
a
mile
from
the
City
.
Thither
went
Lucretia
attended
with
two
Maides
,
and
an
old
Woman
,
Baccarus
followed
,
with
a
posee
of
Violets
in
his
hand
,
very
delicately
guilded
,
in
whose
leaves
there
was
a
Letter
of
love
,
with
fine
subtilty
inclosed
.
And
let
us
stay
our
wonder
at
this
,
since
the
Oratour
hath
avouched
that
himselfe
saw
the
Iliads
of
Homer
comprehended
in
the
narrow
capacity
of
a
nut-shell
.
After
some
humble
recommendations
,
he
tenderd
both
himselfe
,
and
Violet
to
Lucretia
,
and
she
rejects
both
:
But
at
the
importunity
of
the
Hungarian
,
and
by
the
assistance
of
the
old
woman
,
shee
was
wrought
to
accept
it
:
for
why
,
Madam
(
said
shee
)
should
you
faigne
to
your selfe
a
feare
,
and
frame
a
danger
in
your
imagination
to
tremble
at
.
But
Lucretia
had
not
long
kept
it
,
before
shee
gave
it
one
of
her
Maydes
,
who
soone
after
encountring
two
Students
was
easily
over-entreated
to
part
with
it
,
who
being
naturally
inquisitive
,
had
suddainely
unutiled
the
Mystery
,
and
discovered
the
Paper
.
Men
of
this
profession
,
have
been
heretofore
principally
in
the
grace
of
our
women
:
but
since
Caesars
Court
came
hit
her
,
they
are
but
their
sport
,
and
contempt
;
for
instructed
by
so
faire
a
precedent
as
that
of
Venus
and
Mars
,
they
prefer
armes
to
artes
,
and
hold
,
that
a
pen
is
not
so
substantiall
a
weapon
as
a
Lance.
The
schollers
proud
of
an
opportunitie
to
vindicate
themselves
of
the
swordmen
,
deliver
the
letter
to
Menelaus
,
and
wish
him
to
peruse
the
tenour
of
his
injuries
.
Presently
the
good
man
was
filld
with
indignation
,
and
the
house
with
noyse
.
Lucretias
innocencie
plead
her
not
guiltie
,
and
the
narration
of
the
fact
,
&
the
old
womans
evidence
,
did
undeniably
confirme
the
plea.
Complaint
is
made
to
Caesar
,
and
Bacarus
convented
:
who
ingeniously
confessed
a
truth
so
apparent
,
and
gave
his
majestie
an
oath
never
to
make
new
attempts
upon
his
vertue
.
But
he
had
too
much
of
that
heresie
,
that
Iupiter
frownes
not
,
but
smiles
upon
the
perjuries
of
lovers
.
This
animates
him
to
reenforce
his
determination
,
and
the
rather
because
it
was
forbidden
:
it
being
a
humour
originally
traduced
,
most
irregularly
to
prosecute
that
,
which
is
provided
against
with
the
greatest
caution
,
and
commination
.
It
was
now
winter
,
and
Zephire
resigned
to
a
ruder
breath
,
now
the
women
threw
Snowballs
into
the
streets
,
and
from
thence
the
youth
of
the
Cittie
bandied
them
as
fast
into
their
windowes
.
Baccarus
will
now
take
an
occasion
from
the
winter
,
as
before
from
the
spring
:
then
a
violet
was
his
messenger
,
and
now
a
ball
of
Snow
,
in
which
with
much
cunning
hee
had
inclosed
a
letter
,
and
with
no
lesse
dexteritie
directed
it
into
Lucretias
window
.
Who
will
not
then
confesse
(
before
the
racke
bee
presented
him
)
that
there
is
no
bearing
of
saile
which
is
not
of
fortunes
trimming
,
and
that
shee
is
Lady
Regent
of
all
sublunaries
.
One
howre
of
gentle
fate's
more
prevalent
Then
thy
commands
to
Mars
from
Venus
sent
.
There
is
a
wilde
kind
of
sect
,
which
hath
forced
this
principle
,
Fortune
hath
no
interesse
in
wise
men
.
A
sort
of
Stoicall
wits
,
who
if
they
were
put
in
Phalaris
his
Bull
,
would
not
rore
but
sing
.
Yet
certainly
in
the
managing
of
the
common
affaire
shee
hath
a
double
stroke
,
uphill
and
downe
hill
;
to
advance
a
hope
,
and
ruine
it
.
Shee
overwhelmed
this
poore
Gentleman
even
when
his
hopes
did
almost
touch
upon
the
cape
of
happinesse
.
Hee
was
not
well
advised
to
enclose
his
love-letter
in
a
posie
of
violets
,
nor
at
this
time
to
the
same
purpose
to
chuse
no
surer
convay
then
a
Snowball
.
But
had
Fortune
crowned
this
devise
of
his
with
wished
successe
,
then
had
his
subtiltie
and
wisedome
bin
extolled
by
all
men
above
the
skies
.
But
see
the
ill
chance
,
the
Snow-ball
falling
out
of
Lucretias
hand
,
ran
toward
the
fire
,
and
it selfe
and
the
Seale
being
dissolved
by
the
heate
,
the
letter
lay
open
to
view
;
which
Menelaus
then
in
presence
presently
snatched
up
,
&
as
greedily
perused
.
The
contents
occasioned
a
great
combustion
,
but
Baccazus
thought
it
his
safer
course
to
trust
to
a
faire
paire
of
heeles
then
to
apologies
in
a
fact
so
evident
.
This
love
of
his
stood
Eurialus
in
good
stead
,
for
the
jealous
husband
taken
up
in
watching
Baccarus
steps
and
actions
,
gave
Eurialus
faire
advantage
to
put
his
plots
in
execution
.
To
keepe
to
ones
proper
use
askes
mickle
paine
,
What
many
seeke
by
love
or
force
to
gaine
.
Betweene
Lucretias
and
the
adjacent
house
went
a
narrow
alley
,
the
neare
posture
of
the
walls
afforded
an
easie
ascent
into
Lucretias
Chamber
;
but
this
was
to
bee
attempted
by
night
onely
.
Menelaus
was
to
goe
into
the
countrey
,
and
to
lodge
from
home
.
The
lovers
thought
this
joyful
day
long
a
comming
.
He
takes
his
journey
,
Eurialus
changing
his
habit
hies
him
to
the
alley
.
There
Menelaus
had
a
stable
whereinto
Eurialus
got
by
Socias
directions
,
and
there
under
the
Hay
tooke
up
his
lodging
.
Dromo
that
was
Menelaus
groome
in
the
morning
came
to
the
Hayloft
with
his
Pitchforke
,
which
hee
strucke
well
nie
into
Eurialus
sides
,
and
had
certainly
murdered
him
had
not
Sosias
by
good
fortune
come
that
way
:
who
knowing
the
danger
Eurialus
was
in
,
called
to
Dromo
:
Prethee
brother
let
me
alone
to
give
the
Horses
meate
,
and
in
the
meane
while
see
what
good
cheere
is
providing
for
dinner
.
Let
us
bee
frollicke
while
our
Lord
is
away
.
Wee
live
a
better
life
with
my
Lady
in
his
absence
:
shee
is
merry
and
freehanded
:
he
peevish
,
unquiet
,
convetous
,
and
never
pleas'd
.
Seest
thou
not
what
a
miserable
house
hee
keepes
,
how
hee
lockesup
the
victualls
from
day
to
day
wretched
catiffe
!
that
seekes
by
this
sordid
penury
to
heape
up
riches
;
for
is
it
not
the
height
of
foolery
to
live
poore
all
a
mans
life
time
,
to
die
rich
.
What
a
good
Lady
have
wee
that
imagining
beefe
and
mutton
not
sufficient
,
feasts
us
with
hollow
foule
,
and
denies
us
not
plentie
of
the
rarest
wines
.
Prethee
Dromo
provide
good
junkets
.
Let
me
alone
for
that
quoth
Dromo
,
I
have
more
minde
to
bee
in
the
Kitchin
then
the
Stable
.
I
brought
my
Master
out
of
towne
,
he
gave
mee
not
one
word
all
the
live-long
day
,
but
at
evening
he
bad
me
tell
my
Lady
hee
should
lie
abroad
all
night
.
I
commend
thee
Sosia
that
abhorrest
our
Masters
conditions
,
and
I
had
long
ere
now
given
him
the
bag
if
my
Ladies
hadnot
retained
me
by
her
liberall
breakefasts
.
If
you
'll
agree
to
it
wee
'll
not
sleepe
a
winke
to
night
,
wee
'll
eate
and
drinke
till
day
appeare
,
and
waste
more
in
one
mcale
,
then
our
Master
shall
have
in
a
whole
moneth
.
Eurialus
was
glad
to
heare
them
thus
in
discourse
,
yet
observed
the
conditions
of
servants
,
and
imagined
that
his
owne
in
his
absence
served
him
with
the
same
sawce
.
So
when
Dromo
was
gone
Eurialus
rising
up
:
what
a
happie
night
(
quoth
hee
)
Sosia
shall
I
enjoy
by
thy
courtesie
that
hast
directed
mee
hither
,
and
by
an
excellent
wile
kept
mee
from
being
disclosed
.
Thou
art
an
honest
man
,
and
thy
deserts
challenge
my
affection
,
nor
will
I
proove
ungratefull
,
this
good
turne
shall
not
goe
unrewarded
.
The
appointed
houre
drew
onjoyfull
Eurialus
,
although
hee
had
twice
escaped
narrowly
with
life
,
climbes
the
wall
,
and
the
window
being
open
,
findes
Lucretia
by
the
fire
with
her
junkets
about
her
,
expecting
his
comming
.
Shee
knowing
him
to
bee
her
sweet
heart
arose
and
imbraced
him
.
They
kisse
,
and
after
salutation
,
with
wine
and
dainties
refresh
their
tired
spirits
.
How
momentany
are
our
joyes
!
how
durable
our
greefe
!
Eurialus
had
not
had
one
houres
fruition
of
content
when
Sosia
brought
the
sad
tidings
of
Menelaus
returne
and
blasted
all
their
joy
.
Eurialus
is
frighted
and
bethinkes
himselfe
how
to
make
escape
.
Lucretia
having
hid
the
junkets
goes
to
welcome
her
husband
home
.
husband
(
quoth
shee
)
thou
art
welcome
:
but
prethee
why
staydst
thou
so
long
in
the
countrey
?
take
heed
I
smell
out
no
peece
of
waggery
:
why
dost
thou
not
reside
at
home
?
why
dost
thou
excruciate
me
by
thy
absence
?
but
prethee
le
ts
sup
here
,
and
then
wee
'll
goe
to
bed
.
They
were
then
in
the
Hall
where
the
houshold
used
to
sit
at
meales
,
there
shee
endeavoured
to
stay
her
husband
that
Eurialus
might
more
opportunely
make
escape
.
But
Menelaus
had
supt
abroad
and
made
haste
to
his
bed
chamber
.
Then
said
Lucretia
I
am
no
body
in
your
regard
:
why
chose
you
not
rather
to
sup
at
home
with
me
;
I
because
you
were
absent
have
neither
eate
nor
drunke
all
this
day
.
Some
countrey
men
brought
mee
wine
affirming
it
most
neate
and
terse
,
my
greefe
would
not
permit
me
to
taste
one
drop
.
Now
you
bee
come
home
please
you
let
us
goe
into
the
Celler
,
and
let
us
experiment
if
the
wine
bee
sutable
to
their
report
.
Having
thus
said
,
with
her
right
hand
shee
snatcht
a
light
and
tooke
her
husband
by
the
left
and
so
descended
the
Celler
and
spun
the
time
out
untill
shee
thought
Eurialus
had
shifted
for
himselfe
,
and
then
against
her
will
shee
went
to
bed
with
her
husband
;
Eurialus
in
the
dead
of
the
night
returned
into
the
house
againe
.
Next
morning
Menelaus
(
whether
through
provident
care
or
jealousie
I
wot
not
)
commanded
the
window
to
be
made
up
:
I
verily
beleeve
(
for
our
countrey
men
are
shrewd
conjecturists
and
wonderously
jealous
)
that
Menelaus
suspected
the
fitting
situation
of
the
place
,
and
having
none
of
the
best
conceits
of
his
wife
,
was
willing
to
remove
the
occasion
,
for
though
he
could
nottax
her
with
false
play
,
yet
hee
saw
her
followed
by
many
sutors
,
and
knew
a
womans
minde
was
sickle
,
having
as
many
changes
as
a
tree
,
leaves
:
the
feminine
sex
being
great
lovers
of
noveltie
and
sated
with
the
fruition
,
set
naught
by
their
owne
husbands
.
Hee
therefore
trackt
the
path
that
all
jealous
husbands
goe
,
who
strongly
conceit
that
watchfull
observation
may
keepe
their
wives
from
treading
awry
.
By
this
meanes
their
meeting
was
debarred
,
&
their
entercourse
by
letters
was
likewise
stopt
,
for
by
Menelaus
perswasions
the
governour
put
downe
the
Vintner
,
out
of
whose
roomes
(
situated
on
the
backe
side
of
Lucretias
house
)
Eurialus
was
wont
to
talke
unto
Lucretia
,
and
by
a
Reede
reach
letters
to
her
.
They
had
nothing
left
them
but
an
interview
onely
,
and
unspeakable
was
their
griefe
that
were
unable
to
desist
,
yet
knew
not
how
to
make
progression
in
their
amorous
negotiation
.
Eurialus
thus
musing
what
way
to
take
,
he
remembred
Lucretias
counsell
concerning
Pandalus
a
Gentleman
allyed
to
her
husband
:
and
in
imitation
of
learned
Phisitions
that
in
dangerous
diseases
rather
experiment
some
doubtfull
dose
&
perilous
potion
then
desert
their
patient
for
incurable
:
he
resolves
to
assay
Pandalus
&
make
triall
of
a
remedy
which
he
had
formerly
refused
.
Having
cald
him
and
being
withdrawne
into
a
private
roome
,
he
thus
bespake
him
:
Friend
,
I
desire
you
to
sit
,
I
have
a
weightie
businesse
to
disclose
to
you
.
It
requires
diligence
,
trust
and
secrecie
with
all
which
I
acknowledg
you
are
indued
:
I
would
long
since
have
intimated
the
same
unto
you
,
had
not
the
tender
growth
of
your
acquaintance
retarded
me
;
I
now
both
know
you
,
and
for
your
approved
fidelity
love
and
honour
you
:
but
if
you
were
a
meere
stranger
to
me
,
your
countrey
mens
generall
good
report
were
sufficient
;
and
those
friends
of
mine
with
whom
you
be
familiar
,
have
let
mee
know
your
rare
qualities
,
and
what
great
esteeme
you
merit
;
by
whose
insinuations
I
am
informed
that
you
are
desirous
of
my
favour
whereof
I
now
deliver
you
seison
,
your
merits
as
much
as
mine
claiming
an
enterchange
of
our
mutuall
affections
.
But
to
the
point
.
There
shall
not
neede
many
words
betweene
friends
,
you
are
not
ignorant
what
imperious
sway
love
,
either
vertuous
or
sensuall
,
beares
in
the
hearts
of
mortall
men
;
no
heart
that
is
not
made
of
Adamant
,
but
hath
felt
the
force
thereof
.
From
this
passion
I
have
not
read
of
any
man
could
claime
immunitie
.
This
phrensie
can
bee
no
otherwise
cured
but
by
the
fruition
of
the
partie
beloved
,
our
times
and
former
ages
afford
plentifull
examples
of
both
sexes
,
who
prizing
love
at
as
high
rate
as
life
it selfe
,
deny'd
the
one
,
have
disdained
to
retaine
the
other
.
My
drift
in
this
relation
is
to
acquaint
you
with
my
love
and
what
I
would
request
at
your
hands
.
I
will
not
conceale
from
you
what
profit
will
redound
hence
;
because
I
esteeme
you
as
my
most
intrinsecall
friend
.
I
love
Lucretia
;
nor
am
I
(
my
Pandalus
)
to
be
blamed
,
but
Fortune
the
Lady
Regent
of
this
lower
world
we
all
adore
.
I
knew
not
the
customes
of
this
Citie
,
your
women
dissemble
with
their
lookes
what
their
hearts
meane
not
.
Hence
grew
my
errour
Lucretias
smiles
made
mee
thinke
my selfe
belov'd
,
and
can
any
accuse
me
for
setting
my
affection
on
so
worthy
an
object
.
But
finding
my
hopes
beguiled
,
I
not
being
able
to
retreate
,
I
left
no
meanes
unassayed
till
I
won
Lucretia
to
my
love
:
now
our
flames
have
equall
vigor
,
and
without
your
assistance
we
are
both
of
us
undone
.
Her
husband
and
brother
watch
her
narrowly
:
the
golden
Fleece
was
not
so
attended
by
the
restlesse
Dragon
,
or
Hell
gates
by
Cerberus
as
shee
is
.
I
know
your
linage
:
your
noblenesse
,
riches
,
power
,
would
I
had
never
knowne
this
woman
.
But
who
can
stand
against
destiny
.
Fortune
,
not
my
election
made
her
my
mistresse
.
In
this
posture
matters
now
stand
.
Our
love
is
concealed
as
yet
,
but
once
brought
to
light
will
produce
some
hideous
mischiefe
,
which
I
pray
heaven
avert
.
Haply
I
could
master
my
desires
by
departing
this
Citie
,
which
I
would
doethough
to
my
great
greefe
for
your
house
sake
,
if
I
thought
it
would
doe
any
good
:
But
I
know
the
height
of
her
passion
is
such
shee
would
either
follow
me
or
forc'd
to
stay
,
by
her
owne
hands
rid
her
loathed
life
,
which
would
bee
an
everlasting
staine
to
your
family
.
For
the
removall
of
these
evills
I
desired
this
meeting
.
To
your
care
I
commend
the
management
of
this
important
affaire
.
It
lies
in
you
by
procuring
our
congresse
to
asswage
our
mutual
flames
,
you
know
the
severall
accesses
of
the
house
,
what
time
her
husband
is
away
,
and
know
how
to
introduce
mee
.
Your
helpe
is
needefull
to
beguile
her
husbands
brother
that
keepes
so
strict
a
watch
over
her
.
Bee
diligent
and
give
me
inkling
at
what
time
her
husband
is
absent
.
Vse
some
sleight
to
remoove
the
brother
,
and
that
he
may
surrender
that
charge
to
your selfe
alone
,
which
I
pray
Heaven
may
so
fall
out
,
then
by
your
admission
of
me
by
night
while
all
are
in
a
deepe
slumber
all
things
will
sort
to
a
happie
conclusion
.
It
cannot
bee
unknowne
to
your
wisedome
what
sundry
commodities
will
hence
ensue
.
The
honour
of
your
house
will
be
kept
untainted
:
our
love
concealed
which
if
it
should
be
knowne
would
be
an
infamy
to
your
family
,
you
shall
preserve
your
kinswomans
life
.
Menelaus
shall
be
oblig'd
to
you
for
his
wives
safetie
;
of
two
evills
the
lesse
is
to
bee
chosen
.
What
course
soever
bee
taken
there
will
bee
danger
in
it
:
but
this
expedient
hath
the
least
.
Nor
would
I
have
you
thinke
your
paines
shall
goe
unrequited
,
you
know
my
favour
with
Caesar
;
you
shall
obtaine
whatsoever
you
will
aske
.
And
this
I
will
promise
you
,
you
shall
bee
made
a
Count
Palatin
to
you
and
your
heires
for
ever
.
Then
bestirre
your selfe
.
I
commend
to
your
care
and
fidelitie
Lucretia
:
my selfe
,
our
love
,
our
reputation
,
the
honour
of
your
family
;
they
are
all
in
your
power
;
it
lies
in
your
hands
to
ruine
all
or
to
preserve
all
.
Having
heard
all
this
,
Pandalus
smiled
,
and
pausing
a
while
.
O
Euralius
,
said
he
;
All
this
I
knew
and
wish
things
had
beene
otherwise
,
but
you
have
said
no
more
then
truth
,
things
are
now
at
that
passe
that
I
must
of
necessitie
helpe
,
or
great
infamie
will
light
upon
our
family
.
Lucretia
is
so
farre
ingag'd
in
love
,
that
if
I
succour
not
,
shee
will
either
stab
her selfe
,
or
throw
her selfe
headlong
out
at
windowes
:
shee
regards
neither
her
life
nor
honour
.
Her selfe
hath
disclos'd
her
love
to
mee
.
I
dehorted
her
,
chid
her
,
sought
to
extinguish
the
flame
,
but
could
not
prevaile
;
shee
regards
nothing
but
you
,
shee
thinkes
on
nothing
else
but
you
.
Calling
often
to
mee
shee
sayes
,
dost
heare
Eurialus
.
Love
has
so
chang'd
her
that
shee
is
not
like
herselfe
.
The
whole
Cittie
had
not
a
chaster
,
a
wiser
dame
.
What
a
wonderfull
thing
it
is
that
love
should
beare
such
rule
in
humane
mindes
.
You
have
hit
on
the
right
way
of
cure
.
I
will
about
this
businesse
,
nor
will
I
exact
any
reward
at
your
hands
,
knowing
it
is
not
the
part
of
an
honest
man
to
aske
any
boone
where
no
recompence
is
deserved
.
What
I
doe
is
to
remove
the
scandall
threatned
our
family
.
But
quoth
Eurialus
,
if
you
doe
not
disdaine
it
I
will
procure
you
the
stile
and
dignitie
of
a
Count
Palatine
.
I
scorne
it
not
(
quoth
Pandalus
)
but
I
would
not
have
it
by
way
of
bargaine
,
but
would
have
it
conferr'd
on
mee
freely
and
unconditionally
.
It
would
have
more
sorted
to
my
desires
to
have
promov'd
your
wishes
,
and
brought
you
into
Lucretia's
presence
,
and
you
not
to
have
knowne
the
author
of
so
good
a
turne
.
Farewell
.
And
fare
you
well
quoth
Eurialus
:
set
all
your
wits
a
worke
to
bring
us
together
.
Away
goes
Pandalus
rejoycing
with
acquisition
of
so
great
a
mans
favour
,
and
with
the
hopes
of
being
made
a
Count
;
which
dignitie
the
lesse
hee
seem'd
to
desire
,
the
more
he
coveted
;
many
men
in
this
being
like
women
who
the
more
they
say
nay
,
the
more
intensely
desire
what
seemingly
they
refuse
.
This
man
by
playing
the
Pandar
is
honoured
with
an
Earledome
and
his
posteritie
ennobled
for
ever
after
.
O
Marianus
there
are
many
degrees
in
noblenesse
,
and
if
you
search
the
originall
thereof
,
in
my
opinion
you
will
finde
very
few
that
can
rightly
boast
a
lawfull
propagation
.
The
rich
they
commonly
are
ennobled
;
but
riches
&
vertue
seldome
move
in
one
spheare
;
therefore
such
noblenes
flowes
from
an
impure
fountaine
.
It
is
a
wonder
to
see
a
man
grow
ritch
by
honest
courses
.
All
approve
that
verse
,
None
aske
how
wealth
's
attaind
but
it
must
be
had
;
After
the
bags
are
well
lin'd
,
then
noblenesse
is
the
thing
next
sought
after
;
I
say
,
Vertue
alone
does
make
a
noble
man
.
Not
many
dayes
after
,
there
grew
a
broyle
amongst
Menelaus
tenants
,
many
whereof
being
much
gone
in
drinke
lost
their
lives
.
For
composing
whereof
Menelaus
presence
was
held
requisite
.
Vpon
this
occasion
it
was
concluded
that
Eurialus
about
the
houre
of
five
in
the
evening
should
draw
towards
the
house
,
and
if
hee
heard
Pandalus
sing
should
hope
the
best
.
Eurialus
came
at
the
houre
prefixt
,
and
listned
attentively
for
the
watchword
,
but
hee
could
heare
no
musick
,
nor
so
much
as
any
whispering
noise
at
all
.
Achates
as
soone
as
the
appointed
houre
was
past
counselled
Eurialus
to
depart
,
telling
him
that
they
meant
nothing
else
but
to
gull
and
delude
him
.
It
liked
not
Eurialus
to
remove
,
alledging
many
reasons
one
after
another
for
a
longer
stay
.
The
brother
of
Menelaus
was
left
behind
,
whose
vigilancie
and
suspicious
scrutiny
up
and
downe
in
every
corner
hindered
Pandalus
singing
.
Quoth
Pandalus
shall
wee
not
goe
to
bed
to
night
,
I
can
no
longer
hold
open
my
eyes
.
I
wonder
that
being
in
your
tender
yeares
you
should
so
sympathise
with
the
nature
of
old
men
,
that
deprived
of
their
youthfull
moysture
feldome
fal
asleepe
till
morning
,
when
it
is
time
for
others
to
rise
.
It
s
high
time
,
pray
le
ts
goe
to
rest
.
I
marvell
you
sit
up
so
late
;
Le
ts
goe
then
quoth
Agamemnon
if
you
'll
needs
have
it
so
;
yet
first
le
ts
see
that
all
bee
sure
,
so
going
to
the
gate
hee
double
lockt
and
bolted
it
very
strong
.
A
huge
barre
of
Iron
there
was
which
two
men
were
not
able
to
lift
,
which
Agamemnon
finding
himselfe
unable
to
weild
,
Pandalus
(
quotlhee
)
le
ts
make
fast
the
dore
with
this
barre
,
and
then
wee
'll
goe
to
bed
.
Eurialus
heard
these
words
and
whispered
with
a
soft
voice
:
If
they
had
done
with
this
barre
once
then
all
were
done
.
Come
,
come
(
quoth
Pandalus
)
what
a
quoile
keepe
you
?
if
it
be
theeves
onely
you
feare
,
all
is
cocksure
;
if
enemies
,
all
the
ammunition
in
this
house
is
not
able
to
keepe
them
out
.
He
lift
no
bar
to
night
,
or
doe
it
your selfe
,
or
it
shall
bee
undone
for
mee
.
Well
it
matters
not
greatly
quoth
Agamemnon
,
and
so
went
to
rest
.
Then
said
Eurialus
He
watch
here
for
an
houre
to
see
if
any
will
open
.
Achates
was
so
tired
that
in
his
heart
he
curst
Eurialus
for
keeping
him
out
of
his
bed
so
late
.
They
had
not
stayd
long
but
at
a
chinke
they
might
perceive
Lucretia
with
a
small
Taper
in
her
hands
.
Eurialus
pressing
as
neare
as
hee
could
possibly
:
Sweet
heart
Lucretia
(
quoth
hee
)
all
health
to
you
.
At
first
shee
began
to
flie
,
but
presently
better
bethinking
her selfe
,
shee
askes
who
's
there
?
Quoth
Eurialus
,
I
thy
Euralius
am
here
.
Open
the
dore
my
joy
;
I
have
watched
here
till
midnight
for
thy
comming
.
Shee
knew
the
voyce
,
yet
for
more
surenesse
and
prevention
of
any
false
dissimulation
shee
forbore
to
open
till
shee
heard
the
by-word
which
they
two
privily
gave
each
other
.
Then
with
much
adoe
shee
opened
the
dore
a
little
way
,
and
Eurialus
made
as
hard
shift
to
creepe
in
at
so
straight
a
passage
,
and
embrac'd
her
in
his
armes
.
Achates
hee
stood
sentinell
without
dores
.
I
am
not
able
to
say
whether
it
were
feare
or
excesse
of
joy
that
was
the
cause
,
but
Lucretia
falling
into
a
pale
swoon
in
Eurialus
his
armes
seemed
like
a
livelesse
creature
;
her
speech
failing
,
and
her
eye
lids
being
closed
up
,
some
warmth
remain'd
,
and
her
pulses
beat
faintly
.
Eurialus
knew
not
which
way
to
turne
him
;
if
I
leave
her
I
am
accessary
to
her
death
that
left
her
in
so
dangerous
extremitie
:
if
I
stay
Agamemnon
or
one
or
other
of
the
house
will
finde
us
,
and
I
shall
bee
sure
to
die
.
Oh
unfortunate
love
,
more
bitter
then
gall
!
for
thee
to
how
many
dangers
have
I
beene
obnoxious
?
How
many
deaths
have
awayted
mee
for
thy
sake
.
Was
this
a
crosse
that
thou
keptst
for
mee
in
store
to
extinguish
my
dearest
love
,
within
my
owne
embraces
?
But
,
love
oversway'd
all
other
respects
,
and
nought
regarding
his
owne
safetie
hee
abode
with
his
deare
,
and
being
dissolved
into
teares
,
oft
kissing
her
speechlesse
corps
:
hee
cryed
out
:
Woe
's
me
Lucretia
where
art
thou
?
Why
doest
not
heare
?
Why
makest
thou
no
answer
?
open
thy
eyes
and
behold
mee
,
and
smile
on
mee
as
thou
wast
wont
.
I
thy
Eurialus
am
here
.
O
my
Deare
,
it
is
thy
Eurialus
that
embraces
thee
.
O
why
dost
not
returne
me
one
,
for
so
many
hundred
kisses
?
Is
this
thy
entertainement
?
Are
these
the
joyes
thou
invitest
mee
to
?
I
conjure
thee
arise
,
looke
on
thy
Eurialus
,
it
is
I
thy
Eurialus
that
am
here
.
Having
ended
these
exclamations
,
a
cataract
of
scalding
teares
,
hee
let
fall
upon
her
face
and
temples
,
whereby
as
one
by
strong
waters
helpe
resuscitated
,
seeming
like
one
raised
out
of
a
dead
Lethargye
of
sleepe
,
and
beholding
her
Beloved
:
Ah
mee
,
Eurialus
,
said
shee
,
where
have
I
beene
?
Why
didst
thou
not
rather
suffer
me
to
expire
it
as
a
happy
death
,
to
dye
in
thy
armes
.
Would
heaven
I
had
departed
so
before
thou
depart
this
City
.
Conferring
after
this
manner
,
they
set
forward
towards
her
chamber
,
where
bathing
themselves
in
Venerian
delights
:
Now
quoth
Eurialus
,
my
toyle
and
danger
are
changed
into
joyes
beyond
expression
.
O
Summary
of
all
beauty
,
am
I
now
possessed
of
thee
?
It
were
best
dying
now
whilest
this
blisse
endures
,
least
intervenient
misery
,
againe
blast
our
contentments
.
My
Happinesse
is
incomparable
.
But
alas
,
how
swiftly
doe
the
houres
flye
away
?
O
malignant
night
,
what
makes
thee
make
such
haste
.
This
verily
is
the
shortest
night
in
all
the
yeare
.
This
spake
Eurialus
nor
was
Lucretia
behind
,
they
vyed
kisses
,
and
for
amorous
phrases
were
neither
in
others
debt
.
At
the
peepe
of
day
our
Lovers
depart
asunder
.
Caesar
having
now
wrought
his
peace
with
Pope
Eugenius
,
hastens
his
journey
towards
Rome
.
Lucretia
was
not
without
some
inkling
hereof
,
for
what
is
it
that
Love
perceives
not
?
Thus
therefore
upon
this
ground
wrote
Lucretia
to
Eurialus
.
Lucretia
to
Eurialus
.
Had
I
power
to
be
angry
with
thee
,
it
should
bee
now
,
that
being
ready
to
depart
canst
so
cunningly
dissemble
with
mee
.
But
my
heart
is
more
affectionate
to
thee
then
it selfe
,
and
can
by
no
cause
bee
drawne
to
conceive
displeasure
against
thee
.
My
deare
heart
why
didst
thou
not
acquaint
mee
that
Caesar
will
shortly
bee
gone
?
Hee
prepares
for
his
journey
,
and
I
know
thou
wilt
not
stay
behind
.
What
I
prethee
will
become
of
mee
?
Wretch
that
I
am
,
what
shall
I
doe
?
Where
can
I
enjoy
tranquilitie
?
If
thou
forsake
mee
I
shall
not
live
two
dayes
.
I
conjure
thee
by
these
lines
moystned
with
my
teares
,
by
thy
hand
and
faith
given
unto
me
if
ever
I
have
deserved
ought
at
thy
hands
,
or
if
ever
my
acquaintance
won
thy
acceptation
,
take
pitty
on
a
forlorne
Lover
.
I
make
no
boone
that
you
would
still
reside
here
,
but
that
you
would
make
mee
the
companion
of
your
travell
.
I
will
some
evening
give
it
out
that
I
desire
to
walke
to
Bethlehem
,
attended
by
one
old
woman
,
there
let
two
or
three
of
your
traine
lie
in
waite
that
may
receive
mee
;
It
is
no
hard
taske
to
carry
one
away
that
is
willing
to
goe
.
Nor
thinke
not
the
attempt
will
prove
your
disparagement
,
for
King
Priams
sonne
accounted
it
no
disgrace
to
wed
a
stollen
Lady
.
My
husband
shall
hereby
suffer
no
wrong
,
for
however
things
goe
,
he
shall
be
sure
to
lose
mee
;
for
if
you
carry
mee
not
away
,
death
shall
separate
mee
from
him
.
But
by
your
crueltie
leave
mee
not
to
die
,
who
have
ever
prized
you
dearer
then
my
owne
heart
.
Eurilus
Answer
.
I
kept
it
from
thee
till
this
houre
my
Lucretia
,
that
thou
mightest
not
torment
thy selfe
before
the
time
were
come
.
I
know
thy
nature
,
and
that
every
light
occasion
causes
thee
to
fret
too
too
bad
.
Nor
is
Caesar
to
depart
hence
for
ever
;
when
wee
returne
from
Rome
our
way
lies
through
this
Cittie
into
our
native
Country
;
should
Caesar
make
choice
of
another
way
,
if
I
doe
not
returne
to
thee
,
may
I
never
see
my
owne
home
againe
,
but
like
Vlisses
spend
the
remnant
of
my
dayes
in
forraigne
peregrination
.
Give
not
thy selfe
over
to
Melancholy
,
my
dearest
,
but
cheare
up
thy selfe
.
For
the
rape
you
speake
of
,
all
the
world
affords
not
such
a
content
as
that
would
bee
to
mee
,
but
I
more
value
thy
honour
then
my
owne
delight
.
The
confidence
you
have
reposed
in
mee
awakens
a
provident
care
of
your
well-doing
.
You
are
deseended
of
a
right
noble
house
,
and
your
reputation
is
extolled
not
at
home
onely
but
in
farre
remote
regions
.
Should
I
commit
this
act
:
I
speake
not
of
mine
owne
,
what
disgrace
would
it
bee
to
your
Family
?
What
a
heart-breake
to
your
mother
,
what
a
scandalous
rumour
throughout
all
the
Cittie
.
Behold
will
they
say
,
Lncretia
that
was
imputed
so
chaste
a
Dame
is
turned
a
whore
,
and
run
away
from
her
husband
.
Hitherto
you
have
conserved
your
credit
unstained
,
this
rape
would
sully
your
reputation
with
an
indelible
disgrace
.
But
to
let
passe
fame
,
though
shee
worthily
deserve
our
regard
,
this
way
wee
can
never
attaine
the
fruition
of
our
love
.
I
depend
on
Caesar
;
if
I
forsake
him
,
my
meanes
are
too
short
to
maintaine
thee
after
thy
degree
:
if
on
the
otherside
I
follow
the
Court
,
there
's
no
repose
,
wee
daily
remoove
from
place
to
place
,
Caesar
never
made
so
long
abode
any
where
as
hee
has
now
at
Sienna
,
enforced
through
necessitie
of
Warre
.
What
infamie
were
it
to
us
both
,
should
I
use
thee
in
the
Campe
as
a
common
prostitute
?
I
conjure
thee
my
Lucretia
upon
these
grounds
alter
thy
determination
,
take
my
advise
in
good
part
,
and
regard
not
thy
passion
above
thy
welfare
.
Haply
another
lover
would
have
perswaded
thee
otherwise
,
and
beene
the
first
that
would
have
counsell'd
thee
to
make
escape
,
to
the
end
hee
might
abuse
thee
at
his
pleasure
,
never
forecasting
for
the
future
,
but
greedy
to
satisfie
his
present
Just
;
but
such
a
one
deserves
not
the
stile
of
a
true
lover
,
that
preferres
the
fulfilling
of
his
lust
before
a
care
of
reputation
;
I
(
my
deare
Lucretia
advise
thee
for
the
best
,
I
prethee
abide
here
,
and
diffide
not
my
returne
;
I
will
so
contrive
it
that
Caesar
shall
send
mee
agent
into
these
parts
,
and
free
of
all
discommoditie
will
compasse
our
mutuall
fruition
.
Farewell
;
live
happy
,
and
love
thy
Eurialus
,
and
wrong
mee
not
by
thinking
my
love
lesse
servent
then
thine
owne
,
or
that
I
am
willing
to
depart
:
O
no
more
my
sweet
adew
.
Lucretia
acquieted
by
these
perswasions
writ
him
backe
word
that
shee
would
follow
his
counsell
.
Few
dayes
after
Eurialus
set
forward
with
Caesar
toward
Rome
,
and
shortly
after
his
arrivall
fell
into
a
Feaver
.
Vnfortunate
man
that
burning
in
love
was
never
the
lesse
seised
by
aguish
inflammations
.
Love
had
brought
his
body
low
,
and
his
disease
brought
him
even
to
deaths
dore
;
in
so
much
that
he
was
more
beholden
for
life
to
Phisitians
than
nature
.
Caesar
visited
him
day
by
day
,
and
was
as
tender
over
him
as
he
had
beene
his
owne
child
,
and
commanded
to
send
for
all
the
prime
Phisitions
.
But
a
Letter
sent
him
from
Lucretia
,
whereby
he
understood
that
she
was
both
living
and
in
good
health
,
did
him
more
good
then
all
the
Doctors
Receipts
.
It
drove
away
his
Ague
,
and
made
him
strong
enough
to
walke
abroad
,
in
so
much
as
he
was
present
at
Caesars
coronation
,
and
honoured
with
the
addition
of
knighthood
.
When
Caesar
went
to
Perusium
hee
stayed
behind
at
Rome
,
as
not
yet
perfectly
recovered
.
From
thence
hee
came
to
Sienna
,
very
feeble
and
macilent
:
he
might
see
his
Lucretia
,
but
might
not
conferre
with
her
.
Letters
past
mutually
,
and
the
businesse
about
her
rape
is
againe
had
in
agitation
.
Here
Eurialus
stayd
three
dayes
,
but
finding
it
impossible
to
gaine
accesse
unto
her
,
hee
intimated
unto
her
his
departure
.
Their
greefe
at
their
separation
exceeded
their
joy
in
their
mutuall
societie
.
Lucretia
stood
at
the
window
when
Eurialus
rode
through
the
street
,
they
cast
their
blubbered
eyes
on
one
another
,
and
were
so
opprest
with
sorrow
,
as
they
that
felt
their
hearts
even
violently
rent
out
of
their
bosomes
;
who
but
a
lover
like
themselves
is
able
to
draw
the
portrature
of
their
resentments
.
Laodemia
when
her
husband
Prothesilaus
went
to
the
Trojan
Warres
fell
into
an
extasie
and
dyed
at
report
of
her
husbands
slaughter
.
Queene
Dido
slew
herselfe
after
Aeneas
stole
away
,
and
Portia
would
live
no
longer
her
Brutus
being
dead
.
Our
Lucretia
when
Eurialus
was
out
of
her
sight
fell
downe
in
a
swoone
,
and
was
by
the
servants
got
up
and
had
to
bed
till
shee
came
to
her selfe
.
But
after
,
suiting
herselfe
in
meane
habit
,
shee
was
never
heard
sing
,
never
seene
to
laugh
,
nor
could
never
be
made
merry
by
all
the
meanes
that
ever
could
be
used
.
Thus
persevering
for
some
space
of
time
,
and
living
heartlesse
and
insusceptible
of
comfort
,
in
the
armes
of
her
weeping
mother
that
in
vaine
sought
her
consolation
,
shee
expired
her
latest
gaspe
.
Eurialus
having
lost
the
sight
of
Lucretia
spake
not
one
word
as
hee
travelled
,
had
Lucretia
onely
in
his
heart
,
and
his
thoughts
were
whether
hee
should
ever
bee
able
to
returne
unto
her
.
At
last
hee
came
to
Caesar
keeping
his
Court
at
Perusium
,
whom
hee
attended
into
divers
countries
:
but
as
he
followed
Caesar
,
so
Lucretias
ghost
pursued
him
,
and
suffer'd
him
not
to
take
any
quiet
repose
.
This
faithfull
lover
understanding
that
shee
was
dead
,
strucke
to
the
heart
with
sorrow
hee
put
himselfe
in
mourning
.
At
last
Caesar
made
up
a
match
for
him
,
and
hee
espoused
a
beautious
,
chast
,
and
prudent
Virgin
of
Princely
linage
.
Deare
Marianus
you
have
heard
a
true
narration
of
the
sad
Catastrophe
of
a
paire
of
unfortunate
lovers
;
let
the
reader
hereof
by
others
harmes
learne
to
beware
,
and
not
be
inebriated
with
the
potions
of
love
which
have
ever
a
greater
mixture
of
Gall
then
Hony
.
Farewell
.
From
Vienna
the
fift
of
the
Nones
of
Iuly
,
1444.
FINIS
.