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- LUCRECE
19
edition
of
Daniel's collection
of
sonnets,
which
he
christened
Delia.
In
Daniel's
poem
the
ghost
of
Rosamond,
the
mistress
of
Henry
II,
gives
sorrowful
voice
to
her
remorse
at
having
submitted
to
the
adulterous
embraces
of
the
king,
and
finally
relates
her
murder by
Queen
Eleanor.
The
whole
poem
is
in
the
oratio
recta
of the
heroine,
and
the
key
is
that
of
Lucrece's
moaning.
Shakespeare adopted
in Lucrece
the
seven-
line
stanza of
The
Complaint
of
'Rosamond^
and handled
it
very
similarly.
At one important point Shakespeare seems to have
borrowed Daniel's machinery. Both heroines seek consola-
tion from a work of art. Shakespeare's Lucrece closely scans
a picture of the siege of Troy, the details of which she
applies to her own sad circumstance. Daniel's Rosamond
examines a casket finely engraved with ornament suggesting
her own sufferings j on the lid is portrayed Amymone's
strife with Neptune, while < figured within the other squares '
is the tale of Jove's pursuit of the love of lo. Rosamond's
casket was wroughtSo
rare
that
art
did seem
to strive
with
nature
To
express the
cunning workman's
curious thought.
(11. 3 74-r-)
To
Shakespeare's
piece
of skilful
painting
In
scorn
of nature,
art
gave
lifeless
life.
(1.
1374.)
Daniel's
phraseology
seems
to
be
echoed
in single lines
such
as
these
:
ā
An
expird
date
canceWd
ere well
begun.
[Lucrece^
26.)
CancelVd with Time, will have their date expird.
i^osamond^ 242.)
Sable nighty mother of dread
and
fear.
[Lucrece
^
117.)
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