{"product_id":"2940012983091","title":"THE RAPE OF LUCRECE","description":"TO THE\u003cbr\u003e             \u003cbr\u003e          RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TITCHFIELD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE love I dedicate to your Lordship is without end; whereof this\u003cbr\u003epamphlet, without beginning, is but a superfluous moiety.  The\u003cbr\u003ewarrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of\u003cbr\u003emy untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance.  What I have\u003cbr\u003edone is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I\u003cbr\u003ehave, devoted yours.  Were my worth greater, my duty would show\u003cbr\u003egreater; meantime, as it is, it is bound to your Lordship, to\u003cbr\u003ewhom I wish long life, still lengthened with all happiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                         Your Lordship's in all duty,\u003cbr\u003e                              WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.\u003cbr\u003e                      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                        THE ARGUMENT.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIUS TARQUINIUS (for his excessive pride surnamed Superbus),\u003cbr\u003eafter he had caused his own father-in-law, Servius Tullius, to be\u003cbr\u003ecruelly murdered, and, contrary to the Roman laws and customs,\u003cbr\u003enot requiring or staying for the people's suffrages, had\u003cbr\u003epossessed himself of the kingdom, went, accompanied with his sons\u003cbr\u003eand other noblemen of Rome, to besiege Ardea.  During which siege\u003cbr\u003ethe principal men of the army meeting one evening at the tent of\u003cbr\u003eSextus Tarquinius, the king's son, in their discourses after\u003cbr\u003esupper, every one commended the virtues of his own wife; among\u003cbr\u003ewhom Collatinus extolled the incomparable chastity of his wife\u003cbr\u003eLucretia. In that pleasant humour they all posted to Rome; and\u003cbr\u003eintending, by their secret and sudden arrival, to make trial of\u003cbr\u003ethat which every one had before avouched, only Collatinus finds\u003cbr\u003ehis wife, though it were late in the night, spinning amongst her\u003cbr\u003emaids: the other ladies were all found dancing and revelling, or\u003cbr\u003ein several disports.  Whereupon the noblemen yielded Collatinus\u003cbr\u003ethe victory, and his wife the fame.  At that time Sextus\u003cbr\u003eTarquinius being inflamed with Lucrece's beauty, yet smothering\u003cbr\u003ehis passions for the present, departed with the rest back to the\u003cbr\u003ecamp; from whence he shortly after privily withdrew himself, and\u003cbr\u003ewas (according to his estate) royally entertained and lodged by\u003cbr\u003eLucrece at Collatium.  The same night he treacherously stealeth\u003cbr\u003einto her chamber, violently ravished her, and early in the\u003cbr\u003emorning speedeth away. Lucrece, in this lamentable plight,\u003cbr\u003ehastily dispatched messengers, one to Rome for her father,\u003cbr\u003eanother to the camp for Collatine.  They came, the one\u003cbr\u003eaccompanied with Junius Brutus, the other with Publius Valerius;\u003cbr\u003eand finding Lucrece attired in mourning habit, demanded the cause\u003cbr\u003eof her sorrow.  She, first taking an oath of them for her\u003cbr\u003erevenge, revealed the actor, and whole manner of his dealing, and\u003cbr\u003ewithal suddenly stabbed herself.  Which done, with one consent\u003cbr\u003ethey all vowed to root out the whole hated family of the\u003cbr\u003eTarquins; and bearing the dead body to Rome, Brutus acquainted\u003cbr\u003ethe people with the doer and manner of the vile deed, with a\u003cbr\u003ebitter invective against the tyranny of the king; wherewith the\u003cbr\u003epeople were so moved, that with one consent and a general\u003cbr\u003eacclamation the Tarquins were all exiled, and the state\u003cbr\u003egovernment changed from kings to consuls.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181093830896,"sku":"2940012983091","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012983091_p0.jpg?v=1763586349","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012983091","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}