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Quotes from The Rape of Lucrece — William Shakespeare

1564–1616 England

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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheath'd their light;
And, canopied in darkness, sweetly lay,
Till they might open to adorn the day.

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Where now I have no one to blush with me,
To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine.

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I know repentant tears ensue the deed,
Reproach, disdain, and deadly enmity;
Yet strike I to embrace mine infamy.

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Had doting Priam checked his son's desire,
Troy had been bright with fame and not with fire.

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Two red fires in both their faces blazed;
She thought he blush'd, * * *
And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed.

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Cheeks neither red nor pale, but mingled so
That blushing red no guilty instance gave,
Nor ashy pale the fear that false hearts have.

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Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

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He in peace is wounded, not in war.

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Without the bed her other fair hand was,
On the green coverlet; whose perfect white
Show'd like an April daisy on the grass,
With pearly sweat, resembling dew of night.

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O opportunity, thy guilt is great!
'Tis thou that executest the traitor's treason;
Thou set'st the wolf where he the lamb may get;
Whoever plots the sin, thou 'point'st the season;
'Tis thou that spurn'st at right, at law, at reason.

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