Master, who alone; See The Poet’s Euthanasia.
Sebastian; Cabot, who, in 1497, sailed from Bristol, and reached Florida.
The golden sun; Refers to Copernicus; whose solar system was, however, not published till 1543.
The little-ones; Colet, Dean of S. Paul’s, founded the school in 1510.
‘The bent of its founder’s mind was shown by the image of the Child Jesus over the master’s chair, with the words Hear ye Him graven beneath it’ (Green: B. V: ch. iv).
Fifty years; Between 1570 and 1620 lies almost all the glorious production of our so-called Elizabethan period.
From Libethrion;—Nymphae, noster amor, Libethrides! . . . What a music is there in the least little fragment of Vergil’s exquisite art!
MARGARET TUDOR
PROTHALAMION
1503