Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

Shakespeare, William. "The Rape of Lucrece." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, I. 1573.

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Shakespeare, William. The Rape of Lucrece. London: Richard Field, 1594, I. 1573.

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