[32] In Mr. Smithson’s Shakespeare-Bacon, at p. 124, we read: “A schoolmaster, for example, is engaged in turning ‘all his (Chronomastix’s) workes’ from the insular ‘English in which they were originally written into the general or continental Latine.’” It is somewhat difficult however, to find Bacon under the guise of Chronomastix.
Jonson’s words are:
“There is a school-master
Is turning all his works too into Latin,
To pure Satyric Latin; makes his boys
To learn him; call’s him the Times Juvenal;
Hangs all his school with his sharp sentences;
And o’er the execution place hath painted
Time whipt, for terror to the infantry.”
This also appears to be an allusion to George Wither. [Ed.]
[33] Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1899.
[34] Shakespeare-Bacon pp. 89-91, and Note 2 on p. 91.
[35] It may perhaps be worth while to quote some of the words put into the mouth of “Fame” when “the whole Scene opens,” and Saturn sitting with Venus is discovered above, and certain “Votaries” come forth below, “which are the chorus,” shortly before “the Masquers are discovered.”
“Within yond’ darkness, Venus hath found out
That Hecate, as she is queen of shades,
Keeps certain glories of the time obscured,
There for herself alone to gaze upon
As she did once the fair Endymion.
These Time hath promised at Love’s suit to free
As being fitter to adorn the age.
By you [i.e., King James] restored on earth, most like his own;
And fill this world of beauty here, your Court.”
What were the “certain glories of the time obscured” which Time had “promised at Love’s suit to free” is matter for speculation.
[36] But Shepheard’s Hunting appeared in 1615. Jonson, in the Grand Chorus at the end of the Masque, writes:—