Nomina Regum [Angliae] post [conquestum] [Willielmi] [Bastardi].
[Willielmus] conquestor regnavit [per] XXI [annos]. Beried at
Cane.
[Willielmus] Rufus regnavit [per] XIII [annos].
Henricus primus regnavit [per] XXXVI [annos].
[Stephanus] regnavit [per] XX [annos].
Henricus [secundus] regnavit [per] XXXVI [annos].
Henricus [tercius] regnavit [per] unum [annum] [imperfectum] &
ideo non [debet] scribi.
[Ricardus] regnavit [per] IX [annos].
[Johannes] regnavit [per] XVIII [annos].
Henricus [tercius] regnavit [per] LVI [annos].
Edwardus [primus] regnavit [per] XXXV [annos].
Edwardus [secundus] regnavit [per] XIX [annos].
Edwardus [tercius] regnavit [per] L [annos] & CXLVIII
dies.
[Ricardus] [secundus] regnavit [per] XXII [annos] & C dies.
Henricus quartus regnavit [per] XIII [annos] &
[quartrium] [anni]
[XX]'IIIJ., II dies.
Henricus [quintus] regnavit [per] IX [annos] & [quarterium]
anni LXIII dies.
Henricus sextus regnavit [per] XXXVIII [annos]
[quinquaginta] & III
dies.
Edwardus quartus regnavit [per] XXII [annos] XXXVII dies.
[Ricardus] [tercius] regnavit [per] II [annos] [dimidium].
Henricus septimus regnavit XXIII [annos] &
[dimidium] sex
[septimanas].
Henricus [octavus] regnavit XXXVIII [annos].
Edwardus sextus VII [annos].
Philipus et Maria V.
Elizabeth regina nunc XLIII.
Jacobus qui hodie regnat XXII plane.
Carolus Rex.
_Tennyson's "In Memoriam_" (Vol. iii., pp. 142. 227.).--I beg to
withdraw my former suggestion as to "the crimson-circled star," which,
on reconsideration, appears to me manifestly erroneous.
If you can find space for a second suggestion, I think the question will
be cleared up by the following extract from the valuable work which I
cited before (the _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and
Mythology_, edited by Dr. W. Smith):
"Eos, [Greek: Êôs], in Latin Aurora, the goddess of the morning
red, who brings up the light of day from the east. At the close of
night she ascended up to the heaven from the river Oceanus to
announce the coming light of the sun to the gods as well as to
men. In the Homeric poems, Eos not only announces the coming
Helios (the sun), but accompanies him throughout the day, and her
career is not complete till the evening: hence she is sometimes
mentioned when one would have expected Helios (_Od._ v. 390. x.
144.); and the tragic writers completely identify her with Hemera
(the day), of whom, in later times the same mythes are related as
of Eos."
As Aurora rises from the river Oceanus, he may be called her _father_,
and as she sinks into the same, he may be called her _grave_. The
expression then will mean neither more nor less than this, "We returned
home before the close of day."
Perhaps Mr. Tennyson had a line of Lycidas running in his mind:
"So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed."
Milton's day-star, however, I take to be the sun himself.
Another of your correspondents, I see, suggests a different
interpretation of the "crimson-circled star."
I hope I shall not be considered as taking too great a liberty if I
avail myself of the medium of your pages to request Mr. Tennyson (deus
ex machinâ) to descend and settle the question.