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- VENUS AND ADONIS 33
poem of *Glaucus and Scilla*. Lodge’s work was penned in the metre of Shakespeare’s poem, and in the opening stanzas, before he arrives at his real theme, he rapidly and quite parenthetically describes Adonis’ death and Venus’ grief. With Lodge’s prefatory sketch critics are generally agreed that Shakespeare was familiar. Venus, according to Lodge, hastened after Adonis’ fall to the grove
> Where all pale with death he lay alone,
> Whose beauty quaild as wont the lillies droop
> When wastfull winter windes doo make them stoop.
What followed, Lodge described thus (Stanza xxii):—
> Her daintie hand addresst to clawe her deere,
> Her roseall lip alied to his pale cheeke,
> Her sighes, and then her lookes and heavie cheere,
> Her bitter threats, and then her passions meeke,
> How on his senseless corpes she lay a crying,
> As if the boy were then but new a dying.
But such stanzas are merely prefatory illustration of the main theme of Lodge’s poem, and it is Lodge’s treatment of that theme which suggests the extent of Shakespeare’s indebtedness to the poem. The story of Glaucus and Scilla resembles that of Venus and Adonis in being one of the many which the modern world borrowed from Ovid’s *Metamorphoses* (xiii. 905 sq.). But Lodge radically changed his Ovidian material. The Latin version presents a normal pursuit of a modest maiden Scylla by an impassioned lover Glaucus. Lodge took on himself to reverse the position of the man and woman. His tale tells of the refusal of Glaucus to countenance the lascivious advances of Scilla. No doubt Lodge knew Ovid’s legend of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus. But he develops the woman Scilla’s eager passion with a richness
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