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Divine Fancies

Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations. By Fra: Quarles
Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)
  
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92. On Sophronia .

Sophronia chooses rather to commit
Selfe-murther, then by violence, to submit
Her ventur'd honor to th'injurious trust
Of the eye-sparkling Tyrants furious Lust:
What means Sophronia? Dare her conscience frame,
To act a Sinne, but to prevent a Shame?
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