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Excerpt from Lucrece: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, 1594, From the Copy in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library
Lucrece with its lines is more than half as long again as Venw and ddonir with its 1194 lines. It is written with a ¿owing pen and shows few signs of careful planning or revision. The most interesting feature of the poem lies in the moral reflections which the poet scatters with a free hand about the narrative. They bear witness to great fertility of mind, to wide reading, and to meditation on life's com plexities. The heroine's allegorical addresses (ll. 869-1001) to Opportunity, Time's servant, and to Time, the lackey of Eternity, turn to poetic account philosophic ideas of pith and moment.
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