{"id":"01KG8B56T1CZD4E6Z78DN87ZSK","cid":"bafkreihzcnierg6zvgpeuejgk5gk4o3ow6kasqlgsfidcgmtooowns5eza","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreifnhyitupudxtndma4w2fw6jip2opmwpk2rdepmagpsah2pjwb6hi","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0149.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806643968-2m6mhtd6tl1","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0149.jpg","page_number":149,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":506244,"text":"LUCRECE\n13the\nstory\nas laid\ndown\nby\nOvid and\nLivy,\nand\nfirst\nanglicized\nby\nChaucer,\nwho\nfrankly\nacknowledged\nhis\nindebtedness\nto\nthe\ntwo\nLatin\nwriters.\nIt\nis\nclear\nthat\nShakespeare\nstudied\nthe\nwork\nof\nthese\nthree\nauthors.\nTheir\nnarratives\nso\nclosely\nresembled\none\nanother\nthat\nit\nis\nnot\nalways easy\nto state\nwith\ncertainty\nfrom\nwhich\nof the three\nShakespeare immediately\nderived\nthis or\nthat\nitem\nof\ninformation.\nLike\nChaucer\nShakespeare\nholds\nup Lucrece\nto eternal\nadmiration\nas\na\ntype\nof\nfeminine\nexcellence\n—\na\ntype of\n<\ntrue\nwife'\n(1.\n1\n841);\nChaucer\nhad\nsimilarly\ncelebrated\nher\n(1.\n16^6)\nas\nThe\nverray\nwyf,\nthe\nverray trewe\nLucrece.\nBut,\ngenerally speaking, Shakespeare's\npoem\nhas\ncloser affinity\nAffinity\nwith\nwith\nOvid's version (in the\nFasti)\nthan\nwith\nthat\nof\nany\n^''''^•\nother predecessor.\nLike\nOvid\nShakespeare\ndelights\nin\npictorial\nimagery,\nand\noccasionally in Lucrece\nhe\nappears\nto\nborrow\nOvid's\nown\nillustrations.\nChaucer had\nalready\nadapted some of\nthe\nOvidian\nsimiles\nwhich\nfigure\nin\nShakespeare.\nBut\nShakespeare\nseems\nto\nowe\nmore\nsuggestion\nto Chaucer's\nsource of\ninspiration\nthan\nto\nChaucer himself\nThe\nthree\npoets, for\nexample,\ncompare\nLucrece,\nwhen\nTarquin\nhas\nforcibly\novercome\nher,\nto\na\nlamb\nin the\nclutch of a wolf.\nOvid\nwrites\n[Fasti^\nii.\n799-800)\n:\n—\nSed\ntremit,\nut\nquondam\nstabulis\ndeprensa\nrelictis\nparua sub\ninfesto\ncum\niacet\nagna\nlupo.\nChaucer\n(II.\n1798-9) accepts\nthe illustration,\nbut\nstrips\nit\nof\nits\nvivid\ncolouring:\n—Ryght\nas a\nwolfe\nthat fynt\na\nlambe\nalone,\nTo whom\nshall she\ncompleyne,\nor\nmake mone?\nShakespeare catches\nfar\nmore\nof\nthe\nOvidian\nstrain in\n(J77-9—","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:23.968Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:57:46.561Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:58:35.890Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}