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Ne stoode shee still, but fearcely me defide,

Raung’d vp and downe, and oft her palmes shee strooke.

Locrinus now (quoth shee) had not thus dide,

If such an harlot whoare hee had not tooke.”

And therewithall shee gaue a Tiger’s looke,[293]

That made me quake: “What lettes (quoth shee) my knife

To ridde this whore, my husbande’s second wife.

H’is dead, I liue, and shall I saue her life?”

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