Note 32 — THE MASQUE OF “TIME VINDICATED”[28]
Reading edition
In Mr. Smithson’s Shakespeare-Bacon, at p. 124, we read: “A schoolmaster, for example, is engaged in turning ‘all his (Chronomastix’s) workes’ from the insular ‘English in which they were originally written into the general or continental Latine.’” It is somewhat difficult however, to find Bacon under the guise of Chronomastix.
Jonson’s words are:
“There is a school-master Is turning all his works too into Latin, To pure Satyric Latin; makes his boys To learn him; call’s him the Times Juvenal; Hangs all his school with his sharp sentences; And o’er the execution place hath painted Time whipt, for terror to the infantry.”
This also appears to be an allusion to George Wither. [Ed.]