{"id":"01KG8B0SXC2C2GT8M0EE4PBEQH","cid":"bafkreiabu2slurhr2jmaran5wbn6ahnshzcuqmkm5i6rrltwtvlk6733tm","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreicjx6477yowarusvterybpk33l53wjbcipzxwvuvmxr3ou4xnowri","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0039.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521473-p90aywj1vki","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0039.jpg","page_number":39,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":536256,"text":"VENUS\nAND\nADONIS\n35\npoem of Glaucus and Scilla. Lodge's work was penned in the\nmetre of Shakespeare's poem, and in the opening stanzas,\nbefore he arrives at his real theme, he rapidly and quite\nparenthetically describes Adonis' death and Venus' grief.\nWith Lodge's prefatory sketch critics are generally aoreed\nthat Shakespeare was familiar. Venus, according to Lodge,\nhastened after Adonis' fall to the grove\nWhere\nall\npale with death he lay\nalone.\nWhose\nbeauty\nquaild\nas\nwont\nthe\nlillies\ndroop\nWhen\nwastfull winter\nwindes\ndoo\nmake\nthem\nstoop.\nWhat\nfollowed,\nLodge\ndescribed\nthus\n(Stanza\nxxii)\n:\n—\nHer\ndaintie\nhand\naddresst\nto\nclawe\nher deere.\nHer\nroseall\nlip alied\nto\nhis\npale\ncheeke.\nHer\nsighes,\nand\nthen her\nlookes\nand\nheavie\ncheere,\nHer\nbitter threates,\nand\nthen\nher passions\nmeeke.\nHow\non\nhis senseless\ncorpes she\nlay\na crying.\nAs\nif\nthe\nboy\nwere then but\nnew\na dying.\nBut\nsuch\nstanzas are\nmerely\nprefatory\nillustration\nof\nthe\nmain theme\nof Lodge's poem, and\nit is\nLodge's\ntreatment\nof that\ntheme which\nsuggests the extent\nof\nShakespeare's\nindebtedness\nto\nthe\npoem.\nThe\nstory\nof\nGlaucus and\nScilla\nresembles\nthat\nof\nVenus\nand\nAdonis\nin\nbeing\none of\nthe\nmany\nwhich\nthe\nmodern\nworld\nborrowed\nfrom\nOvid's\nMetamorphoses\n(xiii.\n905-\nsq.).\nBut\nLodge\nradically\nchanged\nhis\nOvidian\nmaterial.\nThe\nLatin\nversion presents\na\nnormal\npursuit\nof\na\nmodest maiden\nScylla\nby\nan impassioned\nlover Glaucus.\nLodge\ntook on himself\nto reverse the\nposition\nof the\nman and\nwoman.\nHis\ntale\ntells\nof the refusal\nof Glaucus\nto coun-\ntenance the\nlascivious\nadvances of Scilla.\nNo\ndoubt\nLodge\nknew\nOvid's legend of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus.\nBut\nhe develops\nthe\nwoman\nScilla's\neager passion with\na richness","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.473Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1632},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4X0DM39SSQK43XXG34R","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.284Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:24.860Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}