Ganymede.

In 1595 Richard Barnfield appended to his poem _Cynthia_ a set of twenty sonnets, in which he feignedly avowed affection for a youth called Ganymede.

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

Before dinner yesterday called upon Thorwaldsen, who was in the inn, to tell him Lord Gower likes his 'Ganymede.'

The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829