{"id":"01KG6S6RAPNRC0EDYD9APHTWDG","cid":"bafkreieks5orldmvjjgxrkma43zmz6adxd3ql2yd7c3l4aubieqz6h3vl4","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":659,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:48.288Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 2","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":582,"text":"¹ A freer version followed at a later date, and has been very doubtfully assigned to Francis Beaumont, the dramatist. This was first published anonymously under the title of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus in 1602. It is in heroic verse and is of much literary interest. The rare copy in the Bodleian Library was reprinted in the *Shakespeare Society Papers* (1847), vol. iii. pp. 94–126. In Cranley’s *Amanda* (1635), Shakespeare’s *Venus and Adonis* is mentioned with Salmacis and her Hermaphrodite’ among a number of songs of love and sonnets exquisite’.\n\n<!-- [Page 40](arke:01KG6QANJRPD9VYB73VHK66EZS) -->\nVENUS AND ADONIS 33\n\npoem of *Glaucus and Scilla*. Lodge’s work was penned in the metre of Shakespeare’s poem, and in the opening stanzas, before he arrives at his real theme, he rapidly and quite parenthetically describes Adonis’ death and Venus’ grief. With Lodge’s prefatory sketch critics are generally agreed that Shakespeare was familiar. Venus, according to Lodge, hastened after Adonis’ fall to the grove\n\n&gt; Where all pale with death he lay alone,\n&gt; Whose beauty quaild as wont the lillies droop\n&gt; When wastfull winter windes doo make them stoop.\n\nWhat followed, Lodge described thus (Stanza xxii):—\n\n&gt; Her daintie hand addresst to clawe her deere,\n&gt; Her roseall lip alied to his pale cheeke,\n&gt; Her sighes, and then her lookes and heavie cheere,\n&gt; Her bitter threats, and then her passions meeke,\n&gt; How on his senseless corpes she lay a crying,\n&gt; As if the boy were then but new a dying.\n\nBut such stanzas are merely prefatory illustration of the main theme of Lodge’s poem, and it is Lodge’s treatment of that theme which suggests the extent of Shakespeare’s indebtedness to the poem. The story of Glaucus and Scilla resembles that of Venus and Adonis in being one of the many which the modern world borrowed from Ovid’s *Metamorphoses* (xiii. 905 sq.). But Lodge radically changed his Ovidian material. The Latin version presents a normal pursuit of a modest maiden Scylla by an impassioned lover Glaucus. Lodge took on himself to reverse the position of the man and woman. His tale tells of the refusal of Glaucus to countenance the lascivious advances of Scilla. No doubt Lodge knew Ovid’s legend of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus. But he develops the woman Scilla’s eager passion with a richness\n\nR\n\n<!-- [Page 41](arke:01KG6QANHRX29CBXJMKY9WGACS) -->\n34\nVENUS AND ADONIS\n\nof detail, which is not found in Ovid's legend of Salmacis, and which Shakespeare's *Venus and Adonis*, alone in literature, seems to rival. To Lodge's *Glaucus and Scilla* Shakespeare's verse obviously owes much. Innumerable are the touches in which Venus's yearning appeals to Adonis, as told by Shakespeare, recall Scilla's yearning appeals to Glaucus, as told by Lodge. A comparison of the three following stanzas of Lodge with three stanzas of Shakespeare shows the manner of the latter's dependence on the former.\n\n|  VENUS AND ADONIS. | GLAUCUS AND SCILLA.  |\n| --- | --- |\n|  1. 829\n\nAnd now she beats her heart, whereas it groans,\n\nThat all the neighbour caves, as seeming troubled,\n\nMake verbal repetition of her moans;\n\nPassion on passion deeply is redoubled:\n\n‘Ay me!’ she cries, and twenty times ‘Woe, woe!’\n\nAnd twenty echoes twenty times cry so.\n\n1. 835\n\nShe marking them begins a wailing note\n\nAnd sings extemporally a woeful ditty;\n\nHow love makes young men thrall and old men doze;\n\nHow love is wise in folly, foolish-witty:\n\nHer heavy anthem still concludes in woe,\n\nAnd still the choir of echoes answer so.\n\n1. 847\n\nFor who hath she to spend the night withal\n\nBut idle sounds resembling parasites,\n\nLike shrill-tongu’d tapsters answering every call,\n\nSoothing the humour of fantastic wits?\n\nShe says ‘’Tis so:’ they answer all ‘’Tis so;’\n\nAnd would say after her, if she said ‘No.’ | 1. 637\n\nEccho her selfe when Scilla cried out, O loue!\n\nWith piteous voice from out her hollow den\n","title":"Chunk 2"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S5NCAK41XDRG576B7DWDA","peer_type":"section","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S6RAP0DMTC0NZZEHGMVAB","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6S6RAQBE0TA5409YA2E38X","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:48.470Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:24:54.697Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}