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# LUCRECE
Night, mother of sleep and fear, who with her sable mantle.
(Rosamond, 432.)
I know what thorns the growing rose defends.
(Lucrece, 492.)
The ungather'd Rose, defended with the thorns.
(Rosamond, 210.)
The precedent whereof in Lucrece view.
(Lucrece, 1261.)
These precedents presented to my view.
(Rosamond, 407.)
In sentiment, too, Shakespeare appears often content to follow Daniel. The husband Collatine’s inability to speak, owing to the anguish caused him by Lucrece’s death, resembles King Henry’s enforced silence in presence of Rosamond’s dead body (Rosamond, 904–7):—
Amazed he stands, nor voice nor body stirs,
Words had no passage, tears no issue found:
For sorrow shut up words, wrath kept in tears,
Confused affects each other do confound.
Collatine’s experience is described thus (Lucrece, 1779–80):—
The deep vexation of his inward soul
Hath served a dumb arrest upon his tongue.
¹ Again Daniel, developing Seneca’s ‘Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent’, tells of his hero how
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come;
For light cares speak, when mighty cares are dumb.
(ll. 909–10.)
Shakespeare remarks on the silence of his heroine (ll. 1329–30)—
Deep sounds make lesser noise than shallow fords,
And sorrow ebbs, being blown with wind of words.
Cf. Sidney’s Arcadia, bk. i, Eclogue i—
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep silent slide away.
and Raleigh’s ‘Silent Lover’ (Poems, ed. Hannah, No. xiv)—
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