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_.]