{"id":"01KG6S5PV3NR232H8S1WBYT0ZJ","cid":"bafkreibzh42klcalfl3meyvcof36b6peuwk7dsvf3jtsdvf65o5nnp2wxe","type":"section","properties":{"description":"# The plea for marriage.\n\n## Overview\nThis section, titled \"The plea for marriage,\" is an analytical text discussing the themes within Shakespeare's sonnets. It focuses on the first seventeen sonnets, which urge a young man to marry and preserve his beauty for future generations. The section notes the close association of these themes with Shakespeare's poem *Venus and Adonis* and plays composed around the same period.\n\n## Context\nThis section is part of the [FACSIMILE OF THE EDITION OF 1609](arke:01KG6S4GWQC7KPJ59BAYCY3HXR), which is itself contained within the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection. It was extracted from the text file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA). Preceding this section is \"[II Date of the sonnets.](arke:01KG6S5PV3CV7WZ4E50ZK50CHC),\" which discusses the dating of Shakespeare's sonnets. Following this section is \"SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE](arke:01KG6S5PV3M2TZXX99MAF5AJCR),\" likely introducing the sonnets themselves.\n\n## Contents\nThe content explores the recurring motif of urging a beautiful youth to marry in Shakespeare's early sonnets. It draws parallels between this theme and the sentiments expressed in *Venus and Adonis* and other contemporary plays. The text also includes a footnote that discusses linguistic parallels between the sonnets and Shakespeare's plays like *Henry IV* and *Hamlet*, specifically mentioning the words \"Quietus\" and \"My prophetic soul.\"","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T06:26:11.517Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"The plea for marriage.","end_line":8991,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:08.804Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"The plea for marriage.","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":8983,"text":"**The plea for marriage.**\n\nTwo leading themes of the sonnets are very closely associated with Shakespeare’s poem of *Venus and Adonis* and the plays that were composed about the same date. The first seventeen poems, in which the poet urges a beautiful youth to marry, and to bequeath his beauty to posterity, repeat with somewhat greater exuberance, but with no variation of sentiment, the plea that Venus thrice fervently\n\n¹ Almost every play of Shakespeare offers some parallels to expressions in the sonnets. Canon Beeching (pp. xxv–xxvii) has collected several (which are of great interest) from *Henry IV* and *Hamlet*, but they are not numerous enough to justify any very large conclusion. It does not seem to have been noticed that the words ‘Quietus’ (*Hamlet*, iii. 1. 75, and *Sonnet* CXXVI. 12) and ‘My prophetic soul’ (*Hamlet*, i. 5. 40, and *Sonnet* CVII. 1) come in *Hamlet* and the sonnets, and nowhere else. The sonnets in which they occur may be of comparatively late date, but the evidence is not conclusive in itself.\n\n<!-- [Page 430](arke:01KG6QHPVY207QBV89ACFCNVMZ) -->\n19\n","title":"The plea for marriage."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S4GWQC7KPJ59BAYCY3HXR","peer_type":"frontmatter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S5PV3CV7WZ4E50ZK50CHC","peer_type":"section","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6S5PV3M2TZXX99MAF5AJCR","peer_type":"section","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:14.179Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:26:11.713Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}