Poesias
Poesias She touched no unknown baits nor feared no hooks,
Nor could she moralize his wanton sight
More than his eyes were opened to the light.
He stories to her ears her husband’s fame
Won in the fields of fruitful Italy,
And decks with praises Collatine’s high name
Made glorious by his manly chivalry
With bruisèd arms and wreaths of victory.
Her joy with heaved-up hand she doth express,
And wordless so greets heaven for his success.
Far from the purpose of his coming thither
He makes excuses for his being there.
No cloudy show of stormy blust’ring weather
Doth yet in his fair welkin once appear
Till sable night, mother of dread and fear,
Upon the world dim darkness doth display
And in her vaulty prison stows the day.
For then is Tarquin brought unto his bed,
Intending weariness with heavy sprite;
For after supper long he questionèd
With modest Lucrece, and wore out the night.
Now leaden slumber with life’s strength doth fight,
And everyone to rest himself betakes
Save thieves, and cares, and troubled minds that wakes.
As one of which doth Tarquin lie resolving