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John Davies

English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569

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    Prolusions; or, Select pieces of antient poetry,- compil'd with great care from their several originals, and offer'd to the publick as specimens of the integrity that should be found in the editions of worthy authors,- in three parts Containing, I. The notbrowne Mayde; Master Sackvile's induction; and, Overbury's wife: II. Edward the third, a play, thought to be writ by Shakespeare: III. Those excellent didactic poems, intitl'd-nosce teipsum, written by Sir John Davis: with a preface.

    | Date: 1760
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    The original, nature, and immortality of the soul . A poem. With an introduction concerning human knowledge. Written by Sir John Davies, Attorney-General to Q. Elizabeth. With a prefatory account concerning the author and poem.

    | Davies, John Sir, 1569-1626. | Date: 1714
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