{"id":"01KG8B5876TSM25R3WV4ZPZRQG","cid":"bafkreig7lxh5b6acuqr55nqju7274t6gtgmcgnmlhfs6m7hb6ydpod6mrq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibmc2uol6ecdxriphs2v46c5yxmkg4hikqsh62gtrbqpdwyvyz6iu","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0161.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806643973-qvd526zowqj","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0161.jpg","page_number":161,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":595054,"text":"LUCRECE\n2y\nindebtedness\nto Shakespeare\ndoes\nnot\ngo\nbeyond\nthe\nbare\nsuggestion\nof\nthat single\ntopic.\nThe\npoet\nSuckling,\nSuckUng-s\none of\nShakespeare's\nwarmest\nadmirers\nin the\ngeneration\n'^\"PpJ^'\nsucceeding\nthe\ndramatist's\ndeath,\ngave\ncurious\nproof\nof\nhis\ninterest\nin Shakespeare's\npoem. He\nclaimed to\nfind\na\ndetached\nfragment\nof\nverse,\nof which\nhe\nfailed\napparently\nto recognize\nthe\nprovenance.\nThe\nfragment\nconsisted\nof\nthe ten\nlines\nfrom\nLucrece(-i,%6-^6)\nwhich\nsomewhat\naffectedly\ndescribe\nLucrece\nasleep\nin\nbed;\nbut\nthe\nstanza\nwas\nin\nsix\nlines\ninstead\nof\nin the\nauthentic\nseven\nlines,\nand\nSuckling's\ntext\nmaterially\ndiffered\nfrom\nthat of\nthe\nauthorized\nversion\nof\nLucrece.\nTo\nthe mysterious excerpt Suckling added\na\n<-\nsupplement\n'\nof\nfourteen\nlines\nof his\nown.\nThe\ntwenty-four\nlines,\nin\nfour\nstanzas of\nsix lines\neach,\nwere included\nin\nSuck-\nling's posthumously\ncollected\nverse\n{Fragmenta\nAurea^\n1\n6\\6)\nunder\nthe\nheading\n'\nA supplement\nto\nan\nimperfect\nCopy\nof\nVerses\nof\nMr. Wil.\nShakespears '.\nA\nmarginal\nnote\nrunning\n'\nThus\nfar\nShakespear'\ndistinguished Suckling's share of\nthe short\npoem\nfrom\nthat\nwhich he\nassigned\nto\nthe\ndramatist/\nIn\nidyj\n^ Gerald Langbaine, in his account of Shakespeare in his Dramatick Poets^\ni6^i, makes the comment: « What value [Suckling] had for this small piece\nof LMcrece may appear from his supplement which he writ and which he has\npubhsht in his poems.' The first stanza of Suckling's poem runs :—\nOne of her hands, one of her cheeks lay under.\nCozening the pillow of a lawful kisse.\nWhich therefore swel'd and seem'd to part asunder,\nAs angry to be rob'd of such a blisse:\nThe\none\nlookt pale,\nand\nfor\nrevenge\ndid long,\nWhilst\nt'\nother\nblush't,\ncause\nit\nhad done\nthe\nwrong.\nThis six-lined rendering of the fifty-fifth stanza of Lucrece (in seven lines) is\nnot easy to account for. Suckling had perhaps written out the lines from\nmemory, or from a hurried and incorrect copy. There seems less to recommend\nthe opposing theory, which represents Suckling's crude quotation to be a first\ndraft of the verse by Shakespeare himself, and an indication of an original\nintention on the poet's part to employ in Luaece the six-line stanza of Venui\nand Adonis. Cf. Shakespeare's Cevturie ofPrayse^ pp. 105, zx6-j.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:23.973Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:57:48.006Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:58:35.879Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}