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- # II. 960—980
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This is a section of text extracted from a larger file, labeled "II. 960—980". It is a sequence of lines (5619-5680) extracted from a text file and is part of a chapter titled "THE RAPE OF LYCRECE." The section was extracted on January 30, 2026, by the "structure-extraction-lambda" process.
## Context - Background and provenance from related entities
This section is part of the chapter [THE RAPE OF LYGRECE.](arke:01KG6S4F3XW2RKF6WDXEATZYAA) within the file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA), which is part of the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection. The section is preceded by [II. 939—959](arke:01KG6S5N5ZS8NEF6T4XMN8Q8RP) and followed by [II. 1002—1022](arke:01KG6S5N5Z5QCQBFDNW2STSJ31).
## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details
The section contains a poem about the rape of Lucrece. The poem focuses on the theme of time and its role in sorrow, folly, and sport. It includes lines such as "Let him haue time to teare his curled haire" and "O time thou tutor both to good and bad". The section also includes the lines "The bafer is he comming from a King," and "For greatest scandal waits on greatest state."
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# THE RAPE OF LYCRECE.
Let him haue time to teare his curled haire,
Let him haue time against himselfe to raue,
Let him haue time of times helpe to dispaire,
Let him haue time to liue a lothed flaue,
Let him haue time a beggers orts to craue,
And time to see one that by almes doth liue,
Difdaine to him disdained scraps to giue.
Let him haue time to see his friends his foes,
And merrie fooles to mocke at him resort:
Let him haue time to marke how flow time goes
In time of sorrow, and how swift and short
His time of follie, and his time of sport.
And euer let his vorecalling crime
Haue time to waile th'abusing of his time.
O time thou tutor both to good and bad,
Teach me to curse him that thou taught fit this ill:
At his owne shadow let the theese runne mad,
Himselfe, himselfe seeke euerie howre to kill,
Such wretched hadd such wretched blood should spill.
For who so base would such an office haue,
As sclandrous deaths-man to so base a flaue.
The
ll. 981—1001
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# THE RAPE OF LVCRECE.
The bafer is he comming from a King,
To shame his hope with deedes degenerate,
The mightier man the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored, or begets him hate:
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
The Moone being clouded, presently is mist,
But little stars may hide them when they list.
The Crow may bath his coaleblacke wings in mire,
And vnperceau'd flie with the filth away,
But if the like the snow-white Swan desire,
The staine vppon his siluer Downe will stay.
Poore grooms are sightles night, kings glorious day,
Guats are vnnoted wherefore they flie,
But Eagles gaz'd vppon with eucrie eye.
Out idle wordes, seruants to shallow fooles,
Vnprofitable sounds, weake arbitrators,
Busie your selues in skill contending schooles,
Debate where ley sure serues with dull debators:
To trembling Clients be you mediators,
For me, I force not argument a straw,
Since that my case is past the helpe of law.
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- II. 960—980