which he contributed six figured poems . He later contributed four poems to the Funebrum ( 1603 ) on the death of Elizabeth I , and ten to the New College Encomion … Warcopi ( 1605 ). See Wood , ii , 148-49 ; Kirby , Scholars , p . 158 ; Madan ; ODNB ; Poole , ‘ John Reinolds , Dead Poet ’, New College Notes 5 ( 2014 ), no . 5 . This poem , whose metres are largely dactylic , begins with an invocation to the eagle whose wings give the verses their shape ; it then passes through the poet ’ s own situation , stressing the importance of words ( n . b . the repeated τοῖς ἐπέεσιν right in the middle of the poem ) and the power of poetic inspiration , and ends with a conventional prayer for the Queen ’ s safety . The last word of line 8 is problematic . It appears to read στήκατο , a verbal form which doesn ’ t exist ; παροῦσαν beside it probably agrees with σε ( understood ), object of the verb and referring to the Queen . If στήκατο is , as seems likely , a mistake for ( ἐ ) στήσατο , the meaning will be ( lit .) ‘ with words the Muse has set you in place here present ’, i . e . ‘ with words the Muse has brought you here ’.
8 . Lyre ( Hugh Robinson ), p . 36 Author : Hugh Robinson ( 1583 / 4 – 1655 ) was from Anglesey , son of the bishop of Bangor . Robinson became a Scholar of Winchester in 1596 , matriculated at New College in late 1603 ( BA 1607 , MA 1611 , BD and DD 1627 ), and from 1613 until 1627 was Headmaster of Winchester College . He contributed poems to the New College Peplus ( 1587 ), three to the Encomion … Warcopi ( 1605 ), one to the Iusta Oxoniensium on the death of prince Henry ( 1612 ), and one to the Oxford Iusta on the death of Bodley ( 1613 ). He published several textbooks ; his Scholae Wintoniensis phrases Latinae reached its eleventh edition in 1685 . Below are two poems from the 1600 manuscript collection . See Foster ; Kirby , Scholars , p . 157 , and Annals , p . 313 ; Leach , p . 329 ; Madan ; ODNB . This lyre is addressed to a ‘ Prince ,’ who might be either an unidentified man or Queen Elizabeth ; she was occasionally called a prince and applied the term to herself ( cf . the ‘ Tilbury Speech ’ of 1586 , where she uses the phrase ‘ we princes ’). The poem incorporates both Old Testament and classical stories . The frame , composed in hendecasyllables , alludes to the story of David ’ s lyre in 1 Samuel 16:15-20 . King Saul is troubled by an evil spirit ,
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