{"id":"01KG8B587GWTNYGVTQH3WZK7YA","cid":"bafkreia47fyrl44rnoeqbgw25rgxgnhmu262ban6c2j5fid4ovtuv235bu","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreien3dbkeq2uioyndfkoozfdlhqnbdlabd55kmg27b5vvytzzt3ody","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0160.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806643972-w8u1dkddye","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0160.jpg","page_number":160,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":592085,"text":"24\nLUCRECE\nPlagiarisms,\nHey wood's\nliape\nof\nLucre-re,\nthe table <■of his English books Anno i6ii \\ Minor indications\nthat the work was familiar to students abound. Fragments\nof two lines {10S6-7) are quoted in the disjointed con-\ntemporary scribble which defaces the outside leaf of an early\nmanuscript copy of some of Bacon's tracts in the Duke of\nNorthumberland's library at Alnwick 5 the words were prob-\nably written down very early in the seventeenth century.'\nTo poets and dramatists of the early seventeenth\ncentury the work especially appealed. It at once received\nthe flattery of imitation or actual plagiarism. As early\nas i^'pf Richard Barnfield, an inveterate imitator of\nShakespeare, transferred many phrases to his Cassandra. In\n1600 Samuel Nicholson incorporated lines without ac-\nknowledgement inhis poem of Acolastus — procedure which\nwas followed with q\\qi\\ greater boldness by Robert Baron\nin his Fortune?! Tennis 'Ball just fifty years later. Remini-\nscences of the great apostrophe to Opportunity are met\nwith in Marston's play oi The Malcontent^ 1^04, and in Ford's\nLady'^s Trial ^ i<^3 8. Shakespeare's friend, Thomas Hey wood,\nproduced a five-act tragedy called The 'B^pe ofLucrece in i(5o8,\nthe year following the appearance of the fourth edition of\nShakespeare's poem. But Hey wood's play is a chronicle\ndrama covering much wider ground than Sextus Tarquinius'\noutrage. Lucrece's tragic experience is merely one of many\nlegendary disasters which occupy Heywood's pen, and the\n*\nShakespeare's\nname\nis\nrepeated\nmany\ntimes, in\nvarious forms, on\nthis\noutside\nleaf,\ntogether with\nthe\ntitles of\ntwo\nof\nhis\nplays,\nRychard\nthe\nSecond\nand\nRychard\nthe\nThird. The\ncrude excerpt\nfrom\nLucrece runs\n:\n—\n'\nreuealing day\nthrough\neuery\nCrany\npeepes\nand\nsee.'\nThe\ncareless scribble\nhas\nlittle\nsignificance,\nand\nwas\npossibly the\nwork\nof\na scribe testing a\nnew\npen. No\nattention\nneed be paid\nto\nthe\narguments which would\ntreat the\nmanuscript\nrigmarole\nas\nevidence\nof\nBacon's\nresponsibility\nfor\nShakespeare's\nworks. The\nMS.\nhas been twice reprinted\nlately,\nby Mr. T.\nLe\nMarchant Douse,\nwho\ntakes\na\nsensible\nview\nof\nthe\nproblem\noffered\nby\nthe scribble,\nand by\nMr.\nThomasBurgoyne, who\nis\ninclined\nto\ntake the\nincoherences\nseriously.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:23.972Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:57:48.016Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:58:35.135Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}