“ Make weak-made women tenants to their shame. ”
William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (1594). copy citation
| Author | William Shakespeare |
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| Source | The Rape of Lucrece |
| Topic | shame women |
| Date | 1594 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://shakespeare.mit.edu/Poetry/RapeOfLucrece.html |
Context
“But chide rough winter that the flower hath kill'd:
Not that devour'd, but that which doth devour,
Is worthy blame. O, let it not be hild
Poor women's faults, that they are so fulfill'd
With men's abuses: those proud lords, to blame,
Make weak-made women tenants to their shame. The precedent whereof in Lucrece view,
Assail'd by night with circumstances strong
Of present death, and shame that might ensue
By that her death, to do her husband wrong:
Such danger to resistance did belong,
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Not that devour'd, but that which doth devour,
Is worthy blame. O, let it not be hild
Poor women's faults, that they are so fulfill'd
With men's abuses: those proud lords, to blame,
Make weak-made women tenants to their shame. The precedent whereof in Lucrece view,
Assail'd by night with circumstances strong
Of present death, and shame that might ensue
By that her death, to do her husband wrong:
Such danger to resistance did belong,
” source
