10 . Egg ( John Reinolds ), p . 42 This poem , in the classical shape of an egg , draws on old animal lore about the gentleness and filial piety of storks to praise Queen Elizabeth in honour of her planned visit to Winchester . Aelian in his De Natura Animalium describes how storks tenderly care for both their aged parents and their helpless offspring : ‘ When their parents have grown old , Storks tend them voluntarily and with studied care … And the same birds love their offspring too ’ ( 3.23 , trans . A . F . Scholfield ). Aelian even records a tradition that the birds , in their old age , are transported to faraway islands and transformed into human shape as a reward for their loyalty ( εὐσέβεια ) to their parents .
In Reinolds ’ s poem , England is represented as the parent stork , to be cherished by its dutiful child Elizabeth : ‘ Et tanquam propriam colit parentem ’. But Elizabeth is a parent too , the ‘ populi mater … tui ’. The motherhood Reinolds invokes is not only metaphorical : he also hopes that a ‘ turba ,’ a great crowd , of Elizabeth ’ s royal offspring will offer her reverence within her own lifetime (‘ te vivente ’). Today , this paean to parental and filial obligation seems a rather poignant tribute to the famously childless queen .
11 . Altar ( Thomas Chaundler ), p . 46 Author : Thomas Chaundler ( c . 1585 –?) was born in Buckinghamshire . He entered Winchester as a Scholar in 1598 , and continued to New College in 1605 , then aged 19 ( BA 1609 , MA 1613 ); he became rector of Thruxton , Hampshire , in 1613 . He later wrote a poem for the Iusta Oxoniensium on the death of Prince Henry ( 1612 ). We include one poem from the 1600 manuscript collection . See Foster ; Kirby , Scholars , p . 158 ; Madan .
This altar-shaped poem is , like poem 10 , a paean to Queen Elizabeth in anticipation of her visit to Winchester .
5 . Murice : ‘ murex ’ is the word for the sea-creature from which the Romans derived purple dyes . Its name became synonymous with the dye itself , which was a rare commodity . Thus purple-dyed clothes suggest luxury and rejoicing – the kind of outfit one would wear to welcome a Queen .
12 . ab ista : lit . ‘ by her ’, here referring to the Queen . 18 . popellum : a medieval Latin word , diminutive of ‘ populus .’
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