12 . Heart ( Hugh Robinson ), p . 48 The poem is addressed to Elizabeth I as the Princeps sanctissima . The heartpoem is not found in classical sources , and is an early modern innovation . There is in the same manuscript another example of a heart-poem , by John Reinolds , and a further example in Greek in MS Add . A 276 ( no . 15 below ), so the form proved popular .
5 . Danaes … Jovem : Danae was confined by her father , King Acrisius of Argos , but Jupiter gained access to her in the form of a golden shower , and impregnated her . Their son was Perseus . The myth was most commonly encountered in Ovid , Metamorphoses , 4.611 , 697-98 , 11.116-17 , and Apollodorus , Bibliotheca , 2.4.1 .
6-8 . Tagum … Midas … Rex Phrygiae : Bacchus granted Midas his prayer , which was that everything he touched might turn to gold . This affected water too : see Ovid , Metamorphoses , 11.116-17 , ‘ ille etiam liquidis palmas ubi laverat undis | unda fluens palmis Danaen eludere posset ’ (‘ When he washed his hands in the clear waters , the water flowing over his hands would have deceived Danae ’). The fact that the connection between Danae and Midas had already been made thus by Ovid shows that this exact passage of the Metamorphoses was in the poet ’ s mind . However , Midas was a Phrygian king , and the river associated with him is the Pactolus ; the Tagus is far away in the Iberian peninsula . The Tagus was a gold-bearing river too , though , and so was mentioned in proximity to Midas in , e . g ., Martial , 6.86.3-6 , and Statius , Sylvae , 1.3.105-8 , the latter passage perhaps responding to the former . It is plausible , therefore , that the schoolboy poet mistook either or both of these passages as geographically exact .
Poems 13-17 from the 1603 accession of James VI & I collection ( Bodleian , MS Add . A . 276 .)
13 . Crest ( Anonymous ), p . 50 This poem , many of whose metres are dactylic , forms part of the collection assembled in honour of the accession to the English throne of James I in 1603 . It takes the elaborate form of the Winchester College crest , and with laboured repetition seeks the protection of the new monarch . The ingenuity
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