6 . Altar ( John Luid ), p . 32
Poem 6 from John Luid , ed ., Peplus ( Oxford , 1587 )
Author : John Luid ( Llwyd , etc .) ( c . 1558 – 1603 ). From Denbighshire , Luid was admitted Scholar of Winchester 1574 , and then matriculated at New College in 1577 ( BA 1581 , MA 1585 , BD 1592 , and DD 1595 ). He was the brother of Hugh Lloyd , Headmaster of Winchester from 1580 to 1587 . Although better remembered as a scholar of Greek and Hebrew , Luid was the editor of and contributor to the New College Peplus ( 1587 ) in memory of Sir Philip Sidney . See Wood , i , 738-39 ; Kirby , Scholars , p . 146 ; Madan ; ODNB , s . n . Humphrey Lhwyd ; Poole , ‘ Early Oxford Hebraism ’, pp . 62-4 .
This poem commemorates the injury and death in 1586 of the poet and courtier Sir Philip Sidney at the Battle of Zutphen , fighting on behalf of the Protestant forces against the Spanish . Athena appears under her epithet ‘ Pallas ’, and Maenolus , usually the highest mountain in Arcadia , is here perhaps Maenalus , one of the fifty sons of Lycaon , he who in one version of the myth suggested serving Zeus with the entrails of a murdered boy ( Apollodorus 3.8.1 ; Pausanias 8.3.4 ; Tzetzes on Lycophron 481 ). Venus is referred to by her toponymic ‘ Cytherea ’, Ares is the god of war , and χυδαῖος in the final line can also mean ‘ common ’ or ‘ vulgar ’, i . e . ‘ vulgar blood ’.
6 . ΜΙΑΙΦΟΝΩι . Peplus : ΜΙΑΙΦΡΟΝΩι ( dittography from previous line ).
Poems 7-12 from the 1600 Reinolds collection ( Bodleian , MS Lat . misc . e . 23 )
7 . Wings ( John Reinolds ), p . 34 Author : John Reinolds ( 1582 – 1614 ) was born in Toddington , Bedfordshire . He became a Scholar of Winchester College in 1597 , proceeded to New College in 1602 , and followed a nominally legal path , taking the degree of BCL in 1607 . Reinolds ’ s poems appeared in many collections , in print and in manuscript , and he published three tiny sets of his own epigrams on the local Oxford press in 1611 and 1612 : the Epigrammata , and two instalments of a larger work entitled Prima Chilias . While at Winchester , Reinolds evidently orchestrated the 1600 collection on the anticipated visit of Elizabeth I , to
78