{"id":"01KG8B0SZEH6N2X54E8GNF2S0D","cid":"bafkreiga6dt3ytqwpnmkgohqbkgva72yfifqbolch643duabb44ndgtaiu","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreidgnx5q4icfkuve5elzj3kobq2wisvtxxghplbvmzj2dslf4p76ki","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0044.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521476-vu66gr2xwi9","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0044.jpg","page_number":44,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":523735,"text":"3\n8\nVENUS\nAND\nADONIS\nthe theme gives small warrant for the degrading classification.\nShakespeare himself urged a juster view when he introduced\na charming reference to the airy aesthetic significance of\nthe fable in the Induction to The Taming of The Shrew\n(Induction, Sc. 2, 11. fi-j): —\nDost thou love pictures? we will fetch thee straight\nAdonis painted by a running brook,\nAnd Cytherea all in sedges hid,\nWhich seem to move and wanton with her breath,\nEven as the waving sedges play with wind.\nOnt effect of Shakespeare's poems was to increase the\npopularity of the topic among contemporary writers. The four\nsonnets on Venus and Adonis by B. Griffin and other anonymous\nhands which figure in The Passionate Pil^im of if 9 9 (the\npoetic miscellany unwarrantably assigned by the publisher to\nShakespeare), and The Shepheard^s So72g by H[enry] C[onstable],\nwhich first appeared in England? s Helicon (idoo), are para-\nphrases ofShakespeare's verse, and they bring to no unworthy\nclose the roll of poetic adaptations of the classic story in the\nliterature of the English Renaissance.*\nof light subjects ', which ladies ought to avoid : ' Venus and Adonis are unfitting\nConsorts for a Ladies bosome ' (p. 139).\n^ Two poems of the sixteenth century, which dealt with the story of\nAdonis* incestuous birth as related in Ovid's Metamorphoses ^ Book x, should\ndoubtless be reckoned among the Shakespearean progeny. Mirrha, after an\nincestuous union with her father Cinyras, was, according to the myth, changed\ninto a tree, which gave Adonis miraculous birth. The earlier poem on the\nsubject, Mirrha^ tke mother of Adonis j or Lustes Prodigies ^ was by the actor\nWilliam Barksted (160-/)', the other, entitled The Scourge of Venus ^ or The\nWanton Lady, with the rare birth of Ado7iis, was written by H. A. in the metre\nof Shakespeare's Venus and Adojiis, and published in 16^13. Barksted's poem\nends with an eulogy on Shakespeare's effort :—\nBut stay, my Muse, in thine owne confines keepe.\nAnd wage not warre with so deere lov'd a neighbor.\nBut, having sung thy day song, rest and sleepe\nPreserve thy small fame and his greater favor :","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.476Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.350Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:24.993Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}