-----------------------------------------------------------
. P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, (Golding/Oxford)
.
. Too the Right Honourable and his singular good Lorde
. [R]obert [E]arle of [LEYCES]ter, Baron of Denbygyh,
. Knyght of the moste noble order of the Garter etc.,
. Arthur Goldyng gent, wisheth continuance of health,
. with prosperous estate and fcelicitie. ...........................................................
. . . . Book 3 (Actaeon & Diana)
.
. The Damsels at the sight of man quite out of countnance dasht,
.(Bicause they EVERichone were BARE and naked to the quicke)
. Did beate their handes against their breasts, and cast out such a shricke,
. That all the wood did ring thereof: and clinging to their dame
. Did all they could to hide both hir and eke them[S]elves fro shame.
. But Ph[E]be was of personage so [C]omly and so tall,
. That b[Y] the middle of hir neck[E] she overpeerd them al[L].
. Such colour as appear[E]s in Heaven by Phebus b[R]oken rayes
. Directly shining on the Cloudes, or such as is alwayes
. The colour of the Morning Cloudes before the Sunne doth show,
. Such sanguine colour in the face of Phoebe gan to glowe
. There standing naked in his sight. Who though she had hir gard
. Of Nymphes about hir: yet she turnde hir bodie from him ward. .............................................
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.
. .D. i d a l l t h e y c o u l d t o h i
. .d. e b o t h h i r a n d e k e t h e m
. [S] e l v e s f r o s h a m e B u t P h
. [E] b e w a s o f p e r s o n a g e s o
. [C] o m l y a n d s o t a l l,T h a t b
. [Y] t h e m i d d l e o f h i r n e c k
. [E] s h e o v e r p e e r d t h e m a l
. [L].S u c h c o l o u r a s a p p e a r
. [E] s i n H e a v e n b y P h e b u s b
. [R] o k e n r a y e s
.
[R.E.LEYCES.] -19 : Prob. in Metamorphoses ~ 1 in 60
(Dedicated to [R]obert [E]arle of [LEYCES]ter!) ................................................
[R.E.LEYCES.] shortest skip in KJV: 1491 --------------------------------------------------------- https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/unpacking-merry-wives/

Unpacking Merry Wives of Windsor
Posted by Robert Brazil : SOF October 7, 1999 ........................................
. In Merry Wives (Folio ) Act II, scene 1, there is a reference
. from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to the mythological hunter Actaeon
. and his pack of dogs, among which is one named “Ringwood.” ..........................................................
PISTOL. He woos both high and low, both rich and poor,
. Both young and old, one with another, Ford;
. He loves the gallimaufry. Ford, perpend.
.
FORD. Love my wife!
.
PISTOL. With liver burning hot. Prevent, or go thou,
. Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels. ..........................................................
Ringwood is a name unique to the first English translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

The historical credit for the translation goes to Arthur Golding, but there is mounting evidence that the brilliant and youthfully exuberant translation was actually done by Golding’s nephew, the teenaged Edward deVere. Many Oxfordians find it unlikely
that the starchy Calvinist Golding did more than edit or guide, with possible disapproval, his nephew’s bawdy translation, one that set a new standard for bizarre extrapolation.

In myth, Actaeon traveled with a large pack of dogs, all given colorful names in the original Greek version, names that were adapted by Ovid for the Latin version. But, as Betty Sears has pointed out, the English translator took the names into a new
dimension.

The final dog is named Ringwood in the original Vere/Golding translation (not “Kingwood”, as is given in the modern reprint edited by Nims; 20). In the original the line is given:
" … the tother Chorle who ever gnoorring went,/
. And Ringwood with a shyrle loud mouth the which he freely spent,/
. with divers mo whose names to tell it were but losse of tyme.”

Ringwood is the invention of Vere/Golding; it’s not in Ovid.
Teasing out the name Ringwood from implications in the Latin and
Greek was a clever creative move on the part of the translator.

“et acutae vocis Hylactor quosque referre mora est…. ”

“et acutae vocis Hylactor” = “and shrill voiced Barker”

“quosque referre mora est” = “and others whom it were to long to name”

As Betty Sears points out in her 1997 publication Harts, “Hounds, & Hedingham,” Ringwood was the name of a forest in the environs of Castle Hedingham, ancestral home of the earls of Oxford. Sears offers a compelling study of the Vere connections with
the names of the dogs in Actaeon’s pack that were altered by the English translator for the 1567 version of The Metamorphoses (Book 3, lines 200 and forward). Andrew Hannas, a Latin scholar, has contributed the following analysis:

“Actually, there is an etymological suggestion, though probably not accurate, of ‘wood’ in “Hylactor” [from Greek ‘hylakteo—‘bark, howl,’ etc.], as “hyle” in Greek means “wood[s], forest” (LiddellScott). “Ringwood” could be
a colorful if somewhat fanciful attempt to give “barker” by its “etymology”–a dog that “howls in the wood”–as opposed to merely rendering the name by that of a familiar forest.>>
---------------------------------------------------------- http://hollowaypages.com/jonson1692cynthia.htm
.
. Cynthia's REVEls. OR, The Fountain of Self-Love.
. A COMICAL SATYR. First Acted in the Year 1600.
. By the then CHILDREN of QUEEN ELIZABETH's CHAPPEL.
. With the Allowance of the Master of REVEls.
.
. The Author B. J.
. Nasutum volo, nolo polyposum. Mart.
.
. TO THE SPECIAL *FOUNTAIN of MANNERS* , ........................................................
AMORPH(o)US, a. [Gr. ; priv. + form.]
. Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. ........................................................
AMORPHUS: ...infinite more of
*inferiour Persons, as COUNTS* and others: it was my
chance (the Emperor detain'd by some exorbitant Af-
fair) to wait him the fifth part of an Hour, or much
near it. In which time (retiring my self into a Bay-
window) the beauteous Lady Annabel, Niece to the
Empress, and Sister to the King of Arragon, who having
nEVER before eyed me, (but only heard the common re-
port of my VERtuE, Learning, and Travel) fell into that
extremity of Passion, for my love, that she there imme-
diately swooned: Physicians were sent for, she had
to her Chamber, so to her Bed; where (languishing
some few Days) after many times calling upon me,

*with my Name in her LIPS* , she expir'd.

As that (I must mourningly say)
is the only Fault of my Fortune, that, as it
hath *EVER* been my hap to be sued to, {B}y all
La[D]ies, and Be{A}uties, w(H|E]re I have {C}ome;
so, I n(E|V]er yet s{O}journ'd, or (R|E]sted i{N}
that place, (O|R] part of the World, wh[E]re some
high-born, admirable, fair Feature died not for my Love. ....................................................
_______ <= 16 =>
.
. {B}y_a_l_l L a[D]i e S A n d B e
. {A}u_t_i e s w(H|E]r E I h a v e
. {C O M E S}o I n(E|V]E R y e t s
. {O}j_o u r n d o r(R|E]s t e d i
. {N}t_h a t p L a c e(O|R]p a r t
. {O}f_t h e W O r l d w h[E]r e s
. -o-m e

high-born, admirable, fair Feature died not for my Love.

{BACONO} 16 {1,900,000} = from BACON ("F.B.")
[DEVERE] 17. {640,000}
(HERO) 17 in ~100,000 letters ....................................................
CUPID: So Hercules might challenge priority of us both, because he
can throw [T]he bar farther, or [L]ift more join'd st[O]ols at the
arm's en[D], than we. If this mi[G]ht carry it, then w[E], who have
made the whole body of divinity tremble at the twang of our bow,
and enforc'd Saturnius himself to lay by his curled front,
thunder, and three-fork'd fires, and put on a masking suit,
too light for a reveller of eighteen to be seen in -- ....................................
______ <= 15 =>
.
. [T] h e b a r f a r t h e r,o r
. [L] i f t m o r e j o i n'd s t
. [O] o l s a t t h e a r m's e n
. [D],t h a n w e.I f t h i s m i
. [G] h t c a r r y i t,t h e n w
. [E],w h o h a v e m a d e t h e
. .w. h o l e b o d y

[TLODGE] 15 {1,060,000} in ~100,000 letters ..................................................................
<<The last literary reference to [T]homas [LODGE] was made by
Ben Jonson in Cynthia's REVEls wherein he satirizes Lodge in
the person of *ASOTUS*, the prodigal.>> -Sister Grace Maria

<<In 1891, E G. Fleay suggested that Thomas Nashe had [T]homas [LODGE]
in mind in the section of Pierce Penilesse (1592) that describes "The
prodigall yoong Master" (margin) and begins "A yoong Heyre or Cockney,
that is his Mothers Darling, if hee haue playde the waste-good at the
Innes of the Court or about London....">> ------------------------------------------------------
Mere's Palladis Tamia (1598): . . . "these are the most passionate
among us to bewail & bemoan the perplexities of Love, Henrie
Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyat the elder, Sir Francis
Brian, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir *EDWARD DYER*
, Spencer, Daniel, Drayton, Shakespeare, Whetstone, etc." .................................................
____ Palladis Tamia. (continued)
.
As Actaeon was wooried of his owne hounds:
so is *Tom NASH* of his Ile of Dogs.
Dogges were the death of Euripedes, but bee not disconsolate
gallant young Juvenall, Linus, the sonne of Apollo died the same
death. Yet God forbid that so brave a witte should so basely
perish, thine are but paper dogges, neither is thy banishm-
[E]nt like Ovi[D]s, eternall[Y] to convers[E] with the ba[R]barous
Getes. Therefore comfort thyselfe sweete Tom. with Ciceros
glorious return to Rome, and with the counsel Aeneas
gives to his seabeaten soldiors. Lib. I. Aeneid. ................................
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.
. .T. h y b a n i s h m
. [E] n t l i k e O v i
. [D] s,e t e r n a l l
. [Y] t o c o n v e r s
. [E] w i t h t h e b a
. [R] b a r o u s G e t

[EDYER] 10
-------------------------------------------------------------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%27s_Revels

<<Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love is a late
Elizabethan stage play, a satire written by Ben Jonson.

Editor A. C. Judson argued that Jonson modeled this play
(for him, an atypically unrealistic work) on the plays
of John Lyly, specifically Lyly's Galathea, Midas, Sapho & Phao,
and Endymion. Among many resemblances & relationships, Jonson's
*PAGES* in Cynthia, "Cupid, *MORUS* , and the rest, are repetitions
of Samias, Dares, & Epiton" in Endymion. Though Jonson refers to
Lyly's plays as umbrae, plays long dead, Judson disputes the view
of other critics that Jonson was satirizing or ridiculing Lyly.

The play begins with three *PAGES* disputing over the black *CLOAK*
usually worn by the actor who delivers the prologue. They draw lots
for the *CLOAK*, and one of the losers, Anaides, starts telling
the audience what happens in the play to come; the others try to
suppress him, interrupting him and putting their hands over his
mouth. Soon they are fighting over the *CLOAK* and criticizing
the author and the spectators as well.

In the play proper, the goddess Diana, or Cynthia, has ordained
a "solemn revels" in the valley of Gargaphie in Greece. The gods
Cupid & Mercury appear, and they too start to argue. Mercury has
awakened *ECHO* , who weeps for Narcissus, and states that a drink
from Narcissus's spring causes the drinkers to "Grow dotingly
enamored of themselves." The courtiers and ladies assembled
for the Cynthia's revels all drink from the spring.

*ASOTUS*, a foolish spendthrift who longs to become a courtier and a
master of fashion and manners, also drinks from the spring; emboldened
by vanity and self-love, he challenges all comers to a competition of
"court compliment." The competition is held, in four phases, and the
courtiers are beaten. Two symbolic masques are performed within the
play for the assembled revelers. At their conclusion, Cynthia
(representing Queen Elizabeth) has the dancers unmask and
shows that vices have masqueraded as virtues. She sentences
them to make reparation and to purify themselves
by bathing in the spring at Mount *HELICON* .

The figure of Actaeon in the play may represent Robert Devereux,
2nd Earl of Essex, while Cynthia's lady in waiting *ARETE*
may be Lucy, Countess of Bedford, one of Elizabeth's
ladies in waiting as well as Jonson's patroness.>>

"And then there's a retired scholar there, you would not wish
a thing to be better contemn'd of a society of gallants, than
it is; and he applies his service, good gentleman, to the Lady
Arete, or Virtue, a poor nymph of Cynthia's train, that's scarce
able to buy herself a gown; you shall see her play in a black
robe anon: a creature, that, I assure you, is no less scorn'd
than himself. Where am I now? at a stand!" ----------------------------------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer

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