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- 26 LUCRECE
1 Arber, ii. 648.
Quarles' continuation, 1655.
evidence that Shakespeare's poem was still familiarly cherished by men of letters is offered by the fact that John Quarles, son of Francis Quarles, the author of the *Emblems*, penned a brief continuation in six-line stanzas entitled *The Banishment of Tarquin, or, The Reward of Lust*. This was appended to a reissue of Shakespeare's *Lucrece* in 1655—the last of the seventeenth-century editions. The dramatist is described on the title-page as ‘The incomparable Master of our *English Poetry* Will: Shakespeare, Gent.’—a signal testimony to his repute at the time when Cromwell was Protector.
IV
The copyright of the poem.
In the history of the publication of *Lucrece*, two of the personages, the printer Richard Field, and the publisher John Harrison, who were concerned in producing the first edition of *Venus and Adonis*, reappear, but not in quite their former capacities. The copyright changed hands far less often than that of *Venus and Adonis*. There were only five owners in the course of a century.
John Harrison the first owner, May 9, 1594—March 16, 1614.
The copyright of *Lucrece* was owned at the outset by John Harrison of the White Greyhound in St. Paul's Churchyard, a publisher or stationer who was thrice Master of the Stationers’ Company—in 1583, 1588, and 1596. He had distributed copies of the first edition of *Venus and Adonis* in the spring of 1593, and acquired the copyright of that poem fourteen months later. The entry in the Stationers’ Company’s Register attesting his ownership of *Lucrece* runs under date of May, 1594, thus ‘:—
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