Time stands still: devices and designs, allegory and alliteration, poetry and music and a new identification in an old portrait

摘要

Three enigmatic songs by John Dowland set lyrics by Sir Henry Lee, the Queen's Champion at Elizabeth's Accession Day Tilts, held annually on 17 November, throughout her reign. Two more Dowland songs are, by implication, linked with Lee's interests in imagery and allegory. Through close study of songs, lyrics, imagery and portraiture, this article endeavours to identify the emblematic figure that emerged after the recent cleaning of a portrait of Henry, Prince of Wales, by Robert Peake as representing Sir Henry Lee. Lee's life-long interest in the personification of Time and Truth (by implication, himself, and his ‘goddess’,Elizabeth) is also explored.