On thee and thine this night I will inflict,
If thou my love's desire do contradict.'"
His threat was to murder both the lady and one of her male slaves, and to place them so that it would appear that he had killed them to avenge the honor of Collatinus. Thus we may see how poor Lucretia could truly plead:
"Mine enemy was strong, my poor self weak,
And far the weaker with so strong a fear;
My bloody judge forbad my tongue to speak;
No rightful plea might plead for justice there;
His scarlet lust came evidence to swear
That my poor beauty had purloin'd his eyes,
And when the judge is rob'd, the prisoner dies."