To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come, To find a face where all distress is stelled.

Files of women passed balancing vegetable baskets on their heads, and pop-eyed children who stared at the Europeans.

Since I haue your good leaue to goe away, I will make haſt; but till I come againe, No bed ſhall ere be guilty of my ſtay, Nor reſt be interpoſer twixt vs twaine.

The lyrical “y” theme unfolds above what at first suggests an ongoing dominant pedal, but harmonically the theme does not sound unstable—unlike the agitated dominant pedal points enhancing the (tragic) obsessiveness of the second themes in the first movements of Op. 2, no. 1 (in the relative major, A♭, but with mixtural ♭6̂) and Op. 31, no. 2 (in A minor, the dominant of D minor).