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{ "en": "‘It is the king’s son, Tarquinius,’", "me": "\"I am the kinges sone, Tarquinius,\"" }

{ "en": "Quoth he, ‘and if you cry, or noise should make,", "me": "Quod he, \"but and thou crye, or noise make," }

{ "en": "Of if any creature you should wake,", "me": "Or if thou any creature awake," }

{ "en": "By the same God that created men alive,", "me": "By thilke god that formed man on lyve," }

{ "en": "This sword through your heart I shall drive.’", "me": "This swerd through-out thyn herte shal I ryve.\"" }

{ "en": "And her throat he seized, for his part,", "me": "And ther-withal unto her throte he sterte," }

{ "en": "And set the sharp point against her heart.", "me": "And sette the point al sharp upon her herte." }

{ "en": "No word she spoke, she’d no strength so to do.", "me": "No word she spak, she hath no might therto." }

{ "en": "What could she say? Her mind was confused.", "me": "What shal she sayn? her wit is al ago." }

{ "en": "As when a wolf finds a lamb alone,", "me": "Right as a wolf that fynt a lomb aloon," }

{ "en": "To whom shall she complain or make moan?", "me": "To whom shal she compleyne, or make moon?" }

{ "en": "What, shall she fight with a powerful knight?", "me": "What! shal she fighte with an hardy knight?" }

{ "en": "Men know well that women have no might.", "me": "Wel wot men that a woman hath no might." }

{ "en": "What, shall she cry, or how shall she start", "me": "What! shal she crye, or how shal she asterte" }

{ "en": "To seek escape, a sharp sword at her heart?", "me": "That hath her by the throte, with swerde at herte?" }

{ "en": "She asks for grace and begs as best she can.", "me": "She axeth grace, and seith al that she can." }

{ "en": "‘You’ll find it not,’ quoth he, that cruel man,", "me": "\"Ne wolt thou nat,\" quod he, this cruel man," }

{ "en": "‘As surely as Jupiter my soul shall save,", "me": "\"As wisly Iupiter my soule save," }

{ "en": "For I shall in the stable slay your knave,", "me": "As I shal in the stable slee thy knave," }

{ "en": "And lay him in your bed, crying loudly", "me": "And leye him in thy bed, and loude crye," }

{ "en": "That I caught you so in adultery;", "me": "That I thee finde in suche avouterye;" }

{ "en": "And thus you shall die, and also lose", "me": "And thus thou shalt be deed, and also lese" }

{ "en": "Your reputation, naught else may you choose.’", "me": "Thy name, for thou shalt non other chese.\"" }

{ "en": "The Roman wives so loved their good name", "me": "Thise Romain wyves loveden so hir name" }

{ "en": "In those days, and dreaded so the shame", "me": "At thilke tyme, and dredden so the shame," }

{ "en": "That, what with fear of slander, and dread of death,", "me": "That, what for fere of slaundre and drede of deeth," }

{ "en": "She lost at once both consciousness and breath,", "me": "She loste bothe at-ones wit and breeth," }

{ "en": "And in a swoon she lay, and seemed so dead", "me": "And in a swough she lay and wex so deed," }

{ "en": "Men might have smitten of her arm or head;", "me": "Men mighte smyten of her arm or heed;" }

{ "en": "She felt nothing, neither foul nor fair.", "me": "She feleth no-thing, neither foul ne fair." }

{ "en": "Tarquinius who are the king’s heir", "me": "Tarquinas, that art a kinges eyr," }

{ "en": "And should, by lineage and by right,", "me": "And sholdest, as by linage and by right," }

{ "en": "Act as a lord does, and a true knight,", "me": "Doon as a lord and as a verray knight," }

{ "en": "Why have you outraged chivalry?", "me": "Why hastow doon dispyt to chivalrye?" }

{ "en": "Why have you done this lady a villainy?", "me": "Why hastow doon this lady vilanye?" }

{ "en": "Alas, this was indeed a villain’s deed!", "me": "Allas! of thee this was a vileins dede!" }

{ "en": "But to my point now: in the tale I read,", "me": "But now to purpos; in the story I rede," }

{ "en": "When he was gone and evil her befallen,", "me": "Whan he was goon, al this mischaunce is falle." }

{ "en": "The lady sent for friends one and all then,", "me": "This lady sente after her frendes alle," }

{ "en": "Father, mother, husband, all together;", "me": "Fader, moder, husbond, al y-fere;" }

{ "en": "And all dishevelled with unbound hair,", "me": "And al dischevele, with her heres clere," }

{ "en": "Clothed in the way women go", "me": "In habit swich as women used tho" }

{ "en": "To the burying of a friend also,", "me": "Unto the burying of her frendes go," }

{ "en": "She sat in the hall a sorrowful sight.", "me": "She sit in halle with a sorweful sighte." }

{ "en": "Her friends asked what trouble might", "me": "Her frendes axen what her aylen mighte," }

{ "en": "Be on her, who was dead? She, weeping,", "me": "And who was deed? And she sit ay wepinge," }

{ "en": "For shame could not a word to air bring,", "me": "A word for shame ne may she forth out-bringe," }

{ "en": "Nor their faces dared she to behold.", "me": "Ne upon hem she dorste nat beholde." }

{ "en": "But of Tarquinius at last she told,", "me": "But atte laste of Tarquiny she hem tolde," }

{ "en": "Her pitiful case, and this thing horrible.", "me": "This rewful cas, and al this thing horrible." }

{ "en": "The woe to tell of were impossible,", "me": "The wo to tellen hit were impossible," }

{ "en": "As she and all her friends made moan.", "me": "That she and alle her frendes made atones." }

{ "en": "Even if folk’s hearts had been of stone,", "me": "Al hadde folkes hertes been of stones," }

{ "en": "It might have made them her trouble rue,", "me": "Hit mighte have maked hem upon her rewe," }

{ "en": "Her heart was so wifely and so true.", "me": "Her herte was so wyfly and so trewe." }

{ "en": "She said that to her guilt and blame", "me": "She seide, that, for her gilt ne for her blame," }

{ "en": "Her husband should not owe a foul name,", "me": "He husbond sholde nat have the foule name," }

{ "en": "She would not suffer that in any way.", "me": "That wolde she nat suffre, by no wey." }

{ "en": "And they all answered by their faith", "me": "And they answerden alle, upon hir fey," }

{ "en": "They forgave her all, for that was right;", "me": "That they foryeve hit her, for hit was right;" }

{ "en": "Guilt was not hers: she’d lacked the might,", "me": "Hit was no gilt, hit lay nat in her might;" }

{ "en": "And told her of examples, many a one.", "me": "And seiden her ensamples many oon." }

{ "en": "But all for naught; for thus she spoke anon:", "me": "But al for noght; for thus she seide anoon," }

{ "en": "‘Be that as it may, as regards forgiving;", "me": "\"Be as be may,\" quod she, \"of forgiving," }

{ "en": "I’ll not forgive myself for anything.’", "me": "I wol nat have no forgift for no-thing.\"" }

{ "en": "Then secretly she brought forth a knife,", "me": "But prively she caughte forth a knyf," }

{ "en": "And therewith bereft herself of life.", "me": "And therwith-al she rafte her-self her lyf;" }

{ "en": "And as she fell she looked down indeed,", "me": "And as she fel adoun, she caste her look," }

{ "en": "And of her clothes yet she took heed;", "me": "And of her clothes yit she hede took;" }

{ "en": "For in her falling she yet had care", "me": "For in her falling yit she hadde care" }

{ "en": "Lest her feet or any part lay bare,", "me": "Lest that her feet or swiche thing lay bare;" }

{ "en": "So well did she love purity and truth.", "me": "So wel she loved clennesse and eek trouthe." }

{ "en": "For her all the town of Rome felt ruth,", "me": "Of her had al the toun of Rome routhe," }

{ "en": "And Brutus by her chaste blood he swore", "me": "And Brutus by her chaste blode hath swore" }

{ "en": "That Tarquin should be banished evermore", "me": "That Tarquin sholde y-banisht be ther-fore," }

{ "en": "And all his kin; the people he did call", "me": "And al his kin; and let the peple calle," }

{ "en": "And openly the tale he told them all", "me": "And openly the tale he tolde hem alle," }

{ "en": "And had her carried openly on a bier", "me": "And openly let carie her on a bere" }

{ "en": "Through all the town, that men might see and hear", "me": "Through al the toun, that men may see and here" }

{ "en": "The terrible result of that oppression.", "me": "The horrible deed of her oppressioun." }

{ "en": "Nor ever was there king in Rome’s town", "me": "Ne never was ther king in Rome toun" }

{ "en": "From that day; and she was thought of there", "me": "Sin thilke day; and she was holden there" }

{ "en": "As a saint, and her saint’s day held dear,", "me": "A seint, and ever her day y-halwed dere" }

{ "en": "By their law. And ended thus Lucretia,", "me": "As in hir lawe: and thus endeth Lucresse," }

{ "en": "The noble wife, as Livy does make clear.", "me": "The noble wyf, as Titus bereth witnesse." }

{ "en": "I tell it because in love she was so true,", "me": "I tell hit, for she was of love so trewe," }

{ "en": "Nor of her own will did she change for new.", "me": "Ne in her wille she chaunged for no newe." }

{ "en": "And for the constant heart, true and kind,", "me": "And for the stable herte, sad and kinde," }

{ "en": "That men may ever in such women find;", "me": "That in these women men may alday finde;" }

{ "en": "Where they set their heart, there does it dwell.", "me": "Ther as they caste hir herte, ther hit dwelleth." }

{ "en": "For Christ himself tells, as I know well,", "me": "For wel I wot, that Crist him-selve telleth," }

{ "en": "That in Israel, throughout all that land,", "me": "That in Israel, as wyd as is the lond," }

{ "en": "So great a faith could no man command,", "me": "That so gret feith in al the lond he ne fond" }

{ "en": "As is in woman, and this is no deceit.", "me": "As in a woman; and this is no lye." }

{ "en": "And as for men, see what tyranny", "me": "And as of men, loketh which tirannye" }

{ "en": "They commit; test them as you must,", "me": "They doon alday; assay hem who so liste," }

{ "en": "The truest is too brittle for your trust.", "me": "The trewest is ful brotel for to triste." }

{ "en": "Judge Infernal, Minos, of Crete king,", "me": "Infernal, Minos, of Crete king," }

{ "en": "Now your turn comes, you come into the ring.", "me": "Now cometh thy lot, now comestow on the ring;" }

{ "en": "Not for your sake alone I write this story", "me": "Nat for thy sake only wryte I this storie," }