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- VENUS
AND
ADONIS
35
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 aoreed
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)
:
ā
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 threates,
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 coun-
tenance 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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