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- 34 VENUS AND ADONIS
of
detail,
which
is
not
found
in
Ovid's legend
of Salmacis,
and
which
Shakespeare's
Fenus-
and
Jdonis^
alone
in
literature,
seems
to
rival.
To
Lodge's
Glaucus
and
Scilla
Shakespeare's
verse
obviously
owes
much.
Innumerable
are
the
touches
in
which
Venus's
yearning
appeals
to
Adonis,
as
told
by
Shake-
speare, recall
Scilla's
yearning
appeals
to
Glaucus,
as
told
by
Lodge. A
comparison
of
the
three
following
stanzas
of
Lodge
with
three
stanzas of
Shakespeare shows
the
manner
of the
latter's
dependence
on
the
former.
Venus and Adonis.
I. 8i9
And now she beats her heart, whereat it groans,
That all the neighbour caves, as seeming troubled.
Make verbal repetition of her moans ;
Passion on passion deeply is redoubled :
*Ay me!' she cries, and twenty times
Vfos,
woe
i»
And twenty echoes twenty times cry so.
1-
83/
.
She
marking
them
begins
a
wailing
note
And sings extemporally a woeful ditty ;
How love makes young men thrall and old mendote;
How love is wise in folly, fooHsh-witty :
Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe.
And still the choir of echoes answer so.
Glaucus and Scilla.
(597
Eccho l:er selfe when Scilla cried out, O loue !
With piteous voice from out her hollow den
Rerurnd these words, these words of sorrow, (no,
love)
No loue (quoth she) then fie on traiterous men,
Then fie on hope: then fie on hope (quoth Eccho)
To everie word the nimph did answere so.
I.
703
_
For
euerie sigh, the
rockes returne
a
sigh
:
For
euerie
teare their
fountaines
yield
a
drop;
Till
we
at
last
the
place
approached
nigh.
And
heard
the
nimph
that fed
on
sorrowes
sop
Make woods, and wanes, and rockes, and hillsadmire,
The wonderous force of her untam'd desire.
The popu-
larity ofthe
six-line
stanza.
1.
8+7
For who hath she to spend the night withal
Bnt idle sounds resembling parasites.
Like shrill-tongu'd tapsters answering every call.
Soothing the humour of fantastic wits ?
She says "Tis so : ' they answer all "Tis so;'
And would say after her, if she said ' No.'
1. 709
Glaucus ((^uoth she) is faire: whilst Eccho sings
Glaucus is faire : but yet he hateth Scilla
The wretch repeats : and then her armes shewrings
Whilst Eccho tells her this, he hateth Scilla.
No hope (quoth she) : no hope (quoth Eccho)
then,
Then fie on men j when she said, fie on men.
From whatever point of view Shakespeare's poem is
examined there emerge manifest signs of its close association
with the contemporary trend of literary endeavour in England
as well as on the continent of Europe. It absorbed from all
available quarters suggestions and ideas of many degrees of
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