The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2.

Name: The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2.
Author: Davies, John, Sir

Davies, John, Sir

Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700

Of her Will                                          144

  Of her Memorie                                       145

  Of her Phantasie                                     146

  Of the Organs of her Minde                           147

  Of the Passions of her Heart                         148

  Of the innumerable vertues of her Minde              149

  Of her Wisdome                                       150

  Of her Justice                                       151

  Of her Magnanimitie                                  152

  Of her Moderation                                    153

  To Enuy                                              154

  ORCHESTRA, OR A POEME OF DAUNCING                    155

  NOTE                                                 157

  DEDICATIONS.--I. TO HIS VERY FRIEND, MA. RICH.
  MARTIN                                               159

    II. TO THE PRINCE                                  160

  ORCHESTRA, OR A POEME OF DAUNCING                    161




_Memorial-Introduction._

I. BIOGRAPHICAL.


As in other instances, the first thing to be done in any Life of our
present Worthy, is to distinguish him from other two contemporary Sir
John Davieses--non-attention to which has in many biographical and
bibliographical works led to no little confusion. There was

I. Sir John Davis (or Davys or Davies) of Pangbourne, Berkshire,
who 'sleeps well' under a chalk-stone monument in the parish church
there. He was mixed up with the 'Plots' (alleged and semi-real),
of the Elizabethan-Essex period. Many of his Letters--various very
long and matterful and pathetic--are preserved at Hatfield among the
Cecil-Salisbury MSS. The Blue-Book report of the "Royal Commission on
Historical Manuscripts" (3rd, 1872), makes a strange jumble of our Sir
John and this Sir John's Letters (see Index, s. n.). He was Master
of the Ordnance 31st January, 1598, and was knighted at Dublin 12th
July, 1599. His Will is dated 6th April, 1625, and it was proved at
London ... May, 1626. Our Sir John was appointed one of his executors.
Arms: _Sable_, a griffin, segt., _or._ He is supposed to have been of
Shropshire descent.

II. Sir John Davies (or Davys or Davis) Knight-Marshal of Connaught and
Thomond: temp. Elizabeth. He had large grants of lands in Roscommon.
He is now represented by the family of Clonshanville (or Loyle) in
Roscommon, who are of Shropshire descent (see Archdall's Peerage of
Ireland.) His Will is dated 14th February, 1625. He died 13th April,
1626. His Will was not proved (at Dublin) until 17th November, 1628.
Arms: Sable, on a chevron, argent, three trefoils slipped, _vert._:
crest; a dragon's head erased, _vert._

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The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2.

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