{"id":"01KG8B0T2VYVG41FFRHB9C5HE2","cid":"bafkreied5pcft2ds7csfqlfukcxcpos3lapik6rzwxqli5fqvdsprg2tvy","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreifsre2o4gujeheyn7guza3s5hxv2ghiqwfbbvc4g6zmszpce2e2ii","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0072.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521488-up4ar3zjjpc","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0072.jpg","page_number":72,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":566547,"text":"66 VENUS AND ADONIS\nSixth\nEdition,\ni5oi.\nNo. X.\nBodleian\ncopy, 1601.\nNo. XI.\nMacclesfield\ncopy, 1602,\nPrisoners — and therefore To bid the wind a Base, is by using\nthe Language of yt sport To take the wind Prisoner.'\nThe Bodleian copy of 1602 (8°. M 9, Art B S) bears the\nautograph signature of Robert Burton. It has been in the\nLibrary since 1^40, when it was forwarded in conformity\nwith the clause of Burton's will : ' If I have any books the\nUniversity Library hath not, let them take them.' ' This\ncopy was the first edition of the poem to pass the portals\nof the Bodleian Library. That Burton was well acquainted\nwith Fenus and Adonis is clear from a mnemonic quotation of\nfour lines in his Anatomy of Melancholy (id2i).' Burton's\ncopy is now bound up with five other tracts, only one of\nwhich was his property. The Venus comes second in the\n\\'olume. Some of the leaves are uncut.^ The measurements\nThe third surviving copy of the 1602. edition is in the\nlibrary of the Earl of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle,\nOxfordshire. It has, like the Bodleian copy, the < colon '\ntitle-page. It is a perfect copy in admirable preservation,\nand has been strongly bound in recent years by Hat ton of\nManchester. It was probably acquired by the first Earl of\nMacclesfield, the Lord Chancellor, in the early part of the\neighteenth century. The measurements are {' x y\\\" , There\n'\nMacray's A?mals\nof the\nBodleia?^^\n18^0,\np.\n^o.\n-\nBurton quotes\nthe four lines\nfrom\nmemory\n(ed.\nShilleto, vol.\niii,\np.\n79)\nthus\n:\n—\n'\nWhen\nVenus\nran\nto\nmeet\nher\nrose-cheeked Adonis^\nas\nan\nelegant\nPoet\nof\nours\nsets\nher out,\nThe\nbushes\nin the\nway\nSome\ncatch her\n[by the] neck,\nsome\nkiss\nher\nface.\nSome\ntwine about\nher legs to\nmake\nher\nstay,\nAnd\nall\ndid covet her\nfor\nto\nembrace.'\n(II.\n871-4.)\nBurton's allusion to Shakespeare as ' an elegant Poet of ours ' is curious. He\nonly seems to quote Shakespeare in two other places in his A7iatomy^ once from\nLucrece^ 11. 6i'^-6 (vol. i, p. cji), and once from Rotneo a?id Juliet (vol. iii, p. ii6).\nBurton makes several other references to the story of Venus and Adonis, but\nonly as it figures in classical authors.\n^\nThe opening\ntract.\nThe Devill of\nMascon^from\nthe Frevch\n(Oxford, i6^^),\nis\nnot of\nmuch\ninterest. But\nthe\nthird tract,\nLaneham's\nLetter^\nconcerning\nthe\nKenilworth Entertainment\nof\n1\n575, bears,\nlike\nFerns and Adonis, the auto-\ngraph signature\nof\n'\nRobtus Burton\n'.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.488Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.459Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:25.115Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}