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- THE RAPE OF LVCRECE.
B
ut
Bcautie
in
that
white cntitulcd,
From
Venus
doues
doth
challenge
that faire field,
T
h-n Vertue
claimes
from
Beautie, Beauties
red,
Which
Vertue gaue
the
golden
age,
to
guild
Their
filucr
chcekes,
andcald
it
then
their fliield.
Teaching
them
thus
to
vfe
it
in
the fight,
VVhc
Ihamc
a{laild,thc
red
Ihould
fecc
the
white.
This Herauldry inLvcRECE face was fecne,
Argued by Beauties red and Vertues white,
Of cithers colour was the other Queenc :
Prouingfirom worlds minoriry their right,
Yettheir ambition makesthem ftill to fight:
The foueraignty oi either being To great,
That oft they interchange cch others feat.
This filent warreof Lillies aad of Rofcs,
Which Tarqjvi n vew'd in herfaire faces field,
>In their pure rankes his tray tor eye enclofe^?,
Where leaft betweene them both it (hould be kild.
The coward captiue vanqutihed, doth yceld
To thofctwo Armies thatwould let him goe,
Rather then triumph in (o falfc a foe.
Now
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