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William Shakespeare: Venus & Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece

Read by David Burke, Eve Best, Clare Corbett, Benjamin Soames, and Oliver Le Sueur

  • Release Date: 30th Oct 2006
  • Catalogue No: NA342912
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Poetry, The Complete Text
  • Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

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William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis / The Rape of Lucrece

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VENUS AND ADONIS: Even as the sun with purple…

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Upon this promise did he raise his chin…

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By this love-sick queen began to sweat…

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But lo! from forth a copse that neihbours by…

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He sees her coming, and begins to glow…

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I know not love,' quoth he, 'no will know it…'

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The night of sorrow now is turn'd to day…

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Now quick desire hath caught the yielding prey…

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Thou hadst been gone,' quoth she, 'sweet boy, ere this…'

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Lie quietly, and hear a little more…'

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With this he breaketh from the sweet embrace…

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This said, she hasteth to a myrtle grove…

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Here overcome, as one full of despair…

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As falcon to the lure, away she flies…

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She looks upon his lips, and they are pale…

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THE RAPE OF Lucrece: From the besieged Ardea all in post…

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Now thinks he that her husband's shallow tongue…

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Now stole upon the time the dead of night…

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Thus, graceless, holds he disputation…

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But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him…

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O, had they in that darksome prison died…

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Imagine her as one in dead of night…

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This said, he shakes aloft his Roman blade…

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Quoth she, 'Reward not hospitality…'

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This said, he sets his foot upon the light…

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Even in this thought through the dark night he stealeth…

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O night, thou furnace of foul-reeking smoke…'

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O Opportunity, thy guilt is great…'

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Why hath thy servant, Opportunity…'

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O Time, thou tutor both to good and bad…'

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This said, from her be-tumbled couch…

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Thus cavils she with every think she sees…

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As the poor frighted deer, that stands at gaze…

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This plot of death when sadly she had laid…

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By this, mild Patience bid fair Lucrece speak…

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Her letter now is seal'd, and on it writ…

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For much imaginary work was there…

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Here feelingly she weeps Troy's painted woes…

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Here, all enrag'd, such passion her assails…

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And now this pale swan in her watery nest…

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Lo, here, the hopeless merchant of this loss…

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Even here she sheathed in her harmless breast…

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By this starts Collatine as from a dream…

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