All this takes me to one point, the suicide of Lucretia the virtuous. Ever heard of her? No? Then I will have to tell the story, but that doesn't displease me. Well in the days of the King Tarquinius Superbus in Rome, Tarquinius the hybrid, not superb or supreme. The army was besieging Ardea, and the young officers and princes were bragging about how virtuous, skilled and beautiful their wives were. They decided to find out waht they were really doing when their husbands weren't there which they did by riding back to the city adn sneaking up on their wives. Every one fo tehm was having fun with the men that were left and even with the servants except Lucretia. She was at her fireplace, missing and longing for ehr young husband, Junius Brutus. They all agreed that she was fairest and most virtuous. The Kings son liked that so he sneakded back to town and well, er, raped her. When her father and brother and teh officers came home, she stood up, held a fiery speech about the King and his sons and put a knife to her breast because she did not wnat to live any longer.
Her brothers, father and husband who had the army and the people of Rome with them were pretty ****ed and cast the monarcy down, replaced it with the republic and the rest is a well known story.
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