Chapter II: The Rape of Lucrece

Sextus Tarquinius ravished Lucrece. And she, bewailing the losse of her chastitie, killed herselfe.

[_Source and Origin._--Livy, i. 57-60.

_Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Dionys. Hal. iv. 64; Cicero, _De Fin._
ii. 20-26; Val. Max. 6, i. 1; Ovid, _Fasti_, ii. 761; Aurel. _De
Vir. Ill._ 9; Augustin, _De Civit. Dei_, i. 19. II. _Mediæval_:
Vincent Bellov. _Spec. Doct._ iv. 100; _Gesta Rom._, 135; _Violier_,
113. III. _Modern_: Hans Sachs, i. 2, 184; 3, 21, _Ein schön spil
von der geschicht der edlen Römerin Lucretia_, Strassburg, 1550,
8vo; Kirchhof, vi. 67-70; _Eutrapelos, i. 92_; _Acerra_, ii. 51;
_Histor. Handbüchlein_, 247; Albertinus, 279; Abraham à Sta. Clara,
_Etwas für Alle_, ii. 623.

_Painter_, Ed. I. i. 5; II. i. 5; III. i. 8; IV. i. 22.

_Derivates._--There can be no doubt Shakspeare derived his _Rape of
Lucrece_ from Painter, though he has expanded the four pages of his
original into 164 stanzas. Heywood has also a play called _The Rape
of Lucrece_.]

III. MUCIUS SCÆVOLA.

The siege of Rome by Porsenna, and the valiaunt deliuerie thereof by Mutius Scæuola, with his stoute aunswere vnto the kinge.

[_Source and origin._--Livy, ii. 12. 13.

_Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Plutarch, _Public_. 17; Valerius Max. 3.
3. I; Dionys. 5 27-30; Aurel. Vict. 72; Cicero, _pro Sext._ 21. 48;
Flor. i. 105; Martial, i. 51; Orosius, ii. 5; Augustin, _De Civit._
v. 18; Zonar, vii. 12; Dio Cass. 45, 31; 46, 19; 53, 8. II.
_Modern_: H. Sachs, I. 2. 156: 2. 3. 39; Kirchhof, i. 15; Acerra,
i. 19; Albertinus, 287.

_Painter_, I. i. 7; II. i. 7; III. i. 12; IV. 26.

_Derivates._--A play called _Mutius Scevola_ was played at Windsor
in 1577 (Fleay, _Hist. of Stage_, p. 380).]