or a magician.

_That new doctrine_; Grocyn was perhaps the first Englishman who studied
Greek under Chalcondylas the Byzantine at Florence; certainly the first
who lectured on Greek in England. This was in the Hall of Exeter
College, Oxford, in 1491. To him Erasmus (1499) came to study the
language.--See the brilliant account of the revival of learning in Green,
_Hist_. B. V: ch. ii.

_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

Love who art above us all,
Guard the treasure on her way,
Flower of England, fair and tall,
Maiden-wise and maiden-gay,
As her northward path she goes;
Daughter of the double rose.

Look with twofold grace on her
Who from twofold root has grown,
Flower of York and Lancaster,
Now to grace another throne,
Rose in Scotland's garden set,--
Britain's only Margaret.

Exile-child from childhood's bower,
Pledge and bond of Henry's faith,
James, take home our English flower,
Guard from touch of scorn and skaith;
Bearing, in her slender hands,
Palms of peace to hostile lands.

Safe by southern smiling shires,
Many a city, many a shrine;
By the newly kindled fires
Of the black Northumbrian mine;
Border clans in ambush set;
Carry thou fair Margaret.

--Land of heath and hill and linn,
Land of mountain-freedom wild,
She in heart to thee is kin,
Tudor's daughter, Gwynedd's child!
In her lively lifeblood share
Gwenllian and Angharad fair.

East and West, from Dee to Yare,
Now in equal bonds are wed:
Peace her new-found flower shall wear,
Rose that dapples white with red;
North and South, dissever'd yet,
Join in this fair Margaret!

Ocean round our Britain roll'd,
Sapphire ring without a flaw,
When wilt thou one realm enfold,
One in freedom, one in law?