Grant me, O father, my instant request.

Virginius. Then rise up, my daughter: my answer do note

From mouth of thy father, whose eyes do now float.

O daughter, O dear, O darling, O dame,

Dispatch me, I pray thee, regard not my name:

But yet as thou sayest, sith remedy none,

But leman thou must be, if I were gone,

And better it is to die with good fame,

Than longer to live to reap us but shame:

But if thou do die no doubt is at all,