{"id":"01KG8B56SW6BGYDENZZA4YVC28","cid":"bafkreicplkfuwrtdwte2udhxay6oxv4drmrsuu4gvkbmk7lwsxqisnl6sm","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreicxp4rkcmi3dk2n6i6qahkjd5fcfmo7wy7ulbthxnihcszpdfrry4","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0153.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806643970-ionoa5f1i7","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0153.jpg","page_number":153,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":591243,"text":"LUCRECE\n17\nShakespeare\nagain enlarges the\nrestricted\nbounds\nof\nthe\nclassical\ntale\nby\nintroducing\na sympathizing\nhandmaiden.\nSuch\na\nsubsidiary character\n(1212-302)\nis\nunknown\nto\nOvid\nor\nLivy.\nThis new\nepisode\ncoincides,\npossibly\nby\naccident,\nwith\na\nscene in the\nFrench\ntragedy\nof\nLucrece\nof\n^5^6.\nNo\nother\nparallel\nis\nmet\nwith.\nShakespeare makes\neffective\nuse\nof\nthe\nwoman's\n<\nheaviness'\nwhen\nshe\nis\nsummoned\nby\nher\nmistress after\nthe\nlatter\nresolves\nto\nslay\nherself\nIn\nthe\nFrench drama\nLucrece's nurse\nfeelingly\nendeavours\nto dissuade\nlier\nfrom\nher purpose.\nThe\nappeal\nto\npersonified\nOpportunity\n(11.\n8^9\nsq.)\nseems an\noriginal\ndevice of Shakespeare, but\nthe\nsucceeding\napostrophe\nto\nTime\n(11.\n939\nsq.)\ncovers\nground\nwhich\nmany\npoets\nhad\noccupied\nbefore.\nTwo\nEnglish\npoets,\nThomasWatson\nin\nHecatompathia\n(i\nJ82,\nSonnets\nxlvii\nand\nIxxvii),\nandGiles Fletcher\nin\nLicia\n(1/93,\nSonnet\nxxviii),\nanticipated\nat\nmany\npoints\nShakespeare's catalogue\nof\nTime's\nvaried\nactivities.\nWatson acknowledged\nthat\nhis lines\nwere\nborrowed\nfrom\nthe\nItalian\nSerafino\nand\nFletcher imitated\nthe\nNeapolitan\nLatinist\nAngerianus\nj\nwhile\nboth\nSerafino\nand Angerianus\nowed much\non\ntheir part\nto\nOvid's pathetic\nlament\nin\nTristia(iY.\n6.\ni-io).\nShakespeare\ndoubtless obtained\nall\nthe\nsuggestion\nthat he\nneededfrom\nhis\nfellow\ncountrymen.\nThat Shakespeare knew Watson'sreflections\non\nthe topic seems\nproved\nby\nhis verbatim\nquotation\nof\none of\nthem\nin\nMuch\nAdo\nabout\nNothing\n(i.\ni.\n271)\n;\n'In time the savage\nbull\ndoth\nbear the\nyoke.'\nSimilarly\nthere are plain indications in Shakespeare's\nSonnets\nthat\nFletcher's\nLicia\nwas familiar\nto\nhim.'\nIn Ovid,\nAn\nA?natoria, i.\n131\nsq.,\nUlysses, for Calypso's amusement,\npaints the like\nscene\nwith\na\nwand\non\nthe\nsand\nof the\nsea-shore and describes\nhis\nsketch in\nterms very\nlike\nthose in the\nHeroldes.\nBut,\nalthough Ovid\noffered\nhints for\nShakespeare's\npicture,\nVergil supplied\nthe precise design.\n'\nCf. Eliz,abethan Sonnets^ Introd.\nby\nthe\npresent writer,\nvol. i,\np. Ixxxiii,\nandvol.\nii, p.\n348\n• Life of\nShakespeare^ 5th edition, pp.\n81\n».\na,\n1\n17\nn. z,\nand 11^\nn.\ni\n,C","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:23.970Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:57:46.556Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:58:35.181Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}