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Article: Shakespeare's 'The Rape of Lucrece.'
- Article from:
- The Explicator
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
- Author:
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"Mine enemy was strong, my poor self weak, And far the weaker with so strong a fear. My bloody judge forbod my tongue to speak; No rightful plea might plead for justice there. His scarlet lust came evidence to swear 1650 That my poor beauty had purloined his eyes; And when the judge is robbed, the prisoner dies."(1)
These lines are spoken by Lucrece when she explains to her husband Collatine and "his consorted lords" (line 1609), how Tarquin has raped her. The state of Lucrece's feelings at this point in the poem is not altogether easy to determine. In reply to Collatine's sensitive question as to what has happened to her ("What uncouth ill event / Hath thee ...
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... ... desire, Lust-breathed Tarquin leaves the Roman host ... Collatine's fair love, Lucrece the chaste. Haply that ... the night before, in Tarquin's tent, Unlock'd ... white. This heraldry in Lucrece' face was seen, Argued ... and of roses, Which Tarquin view'd in her fair ...
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