The story in England.

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# The story in England. ## Overview This section, titled "The story in England.", is a textual component within the chapter "[VENUS AND ADONIS](arke:01KG6S4BKQ65P7DTQM82TXFB34)". It was extracted from the file "[pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA)" and is part of the "[PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y)" collection. The section spans lines 507 to 510 of the source text and was extracted on January 30, 2026, by the "structure-extraction-lambda" process. ## Context This section follows the section "### III" ([arke:01KG6S5NCA8R7WXDEWM612Q3DJ]) and precedes "Spenser’s treatment of it (1586)." ([arke:01KG6S5NC7SKTXTCKE0S8BNTH1]) within the chapter "[VENUS AND ADONIS](arke:01KG6S4BKQ65P7DTQM82TXFB34)". The text was extracted from the plain text file "[pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA)" and manually edited by user "01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H". ## Contents The section discusses how Edmund Spenser adapted the details of the Adonis fable in his Elegy on Sir Philip Sidney. It notes Spenser's figurative crediting of his hero with Adonis’ precise manner of death, including the wound in the thigh and the metamorphosis of the corpse into a flower. It also mentions Spenser's use of Stella's lamentation, similar to Venus's lament in poetic tradition. The section anticipates Shakespeare's account of the story.

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The story in England. Spenser in his Elegy on Sir Philip Sidney adapts the details of the fable to his special purpose. Spenser figuratively credited his hero with Adonis’ precise manner of death. ‘Astrophel’ is slain in the chase by ‘a cruel beast’, who inflicts a wound in his thigh, and his corpse is metamorphosed into a flower. Spenser, too, sets on the lips of Sidney’s lady-love Stella the pathetic lamentation which poetic tradition assigned to Venus on the discovery of Adonis’ dead body. Spenser’s description of the flow of blood from the boar’s fatal thrust, and the transformation of the fair white corpse into a flower ‘both red and blue’, anticipate Shakespeare’s account of how

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The story in England.