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Davies, John
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Davies (or Davis), John (1569–1626)

English poet and lawyer. In his Orchestra (1596), the world is exhibited as a dance; Hymns to Astraea (1599) consists of 26 acrostic poems addressed to Queen Elizabeth; and Nosce Teipsum (1599) is a didactic poem on the vanity of human learning and the immortality of the soul and was acclaimed by Coleridge.

Born in Tisbury, Wiltshire, and educated at Oxford, Davies became a barrister in 1595. He had a reputation for wit, and wrote many epigrams as well as poems. James I made him solicitor general of Ireland in 1603, and three years later attorney general. He was appointed Lord Chief Justice shortly before his sudden death.

His Discovery of the True Causes why Ireland Was Never Entirely Subdued (1612) is a revealing account of the Irish question. In conjunction with Robert Cotton, he founded the Society of Antiquaries.



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