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- # Chapter IV
## Overview
This document is chapter "IV" of a larger collection, extracted from a text file on January 30, 2026. It spans lines 3444 to 3456 of the source file.
## Context
Chapter IV is part of the poetry collection "[Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF)". This collection was extracted from the file "[pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA)" and is organized within the collection "[PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y)". This chapter follows chapter "II" ([01KG6S4EKZ5XHHZ4RAQVF0F0FC](arke:01KG6S4EKZ5XHHZ4RAQVF0F0FC)) and precedes chapter "III" ([01KG6S4EM1AKPD5T35XS8GTZ8A](arke:01KG6S4EM1AKPD5T35XS8GTZ8A)). The text includes a brief poetic couplet and a note referencing Sidney's "Arcadia" and Raleigh's "Silent Lover," followed by a scholarly commentary on Shakespeare's "Lucrece," discussing its influences and originality.
## Contents
Chapter IV contains a poetic excerpt and critical analysis. The excerpt includes the lines: "Deep sounds make lesser noise than shallow fords, / And sorrow ebbs, being blown with wind of words." It also references classical and contemporary literary works, including Sidney's "Arcadia" and Raleigh's "Silent Lover." The accompanying commentary discusses the stylistic and substantive originality of Shakespeare's "Lucrece," noting its debt to Ovid, Livy, Chaucer, and Bandello, as well as contemporary English verse writers.
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- 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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Neither the individuality of style nor the substantive originality of many details in Shakespeare's poem can be questioned. But it is clear that, working on foundations laid by Ovid, he sought suggestion for his poetic edifice in Livy, and in such successors of the classical poet and historian as Chaucer and Bandello. Nor can it be lightly questioned that he absorbed sentiments and phrases from many contemporary English verse-writers with whom his muse acknowledged a sympathetic affinity.
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